The lies and untruths being told by the Obama administration have become so ridiculous that even the AP has finally been forced to tell the truth involving the claims of saved or created jobs since the $797 billion recovery program’s inception. The review shows that the numbers claimed have been inflated by thousands.
A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of the president’s plan but the real number was less than 1,000. A child care center in Florida claimed that it saved 129 jobs but spent the stimulus money on existing employee’s salaries, thus crating neither new nor saved jobs.
Across the country, the report found that jobs credited to the stimulus program have been counted two, three, four and even more times. And the claims being made by the Obama administration of 30,000 new jobs created with the government infusion of money into the economy have been, according to the government oversight board, overstated by nearly 5,000.
The review found that some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs were credited to stimulus spending when, in fact, none were produced. This evidence shows that the administration’s claim that his stimulus program had exceeded early expectations toward reaching the president’s promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010 is baseless. In fact, since the passage of the stimulus program, we have experienced the loss of 3.3 million additional jobs and unemployment has now topped 10 percent and is still rising.
Finally, the New York Times, the most liberal supporter of Obama, has had to report that its investigation has uncovered an amazing hoax involving the claim by the VA in Arkansas, that the purchase of “one” lawn mower for the national cemetery produced 50 new jobs. If this were true, it would seem that according to the Obama administration, it should simply purchase 320,000 new lawn mowers and our unemployment problems would be solved!
Allen Shirley
Joplin
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