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More “saved or created” jobs nonsense

Not content with his current track record of economic ignorance, B.O. wants to proverbially open his mouth and remove all doubt.  From the AP:

President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.
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About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.
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But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.

“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.

Just in case you’re actually ignorant enough to believe the “saved or created” jobs nonsense, let’s try a little analogy:

Let’s say you have a job.  If you’re a liberal, that may be hard to fathom, but work with me here, m’kay?  Now, let’s say someone gave me, a man on the street, a $100 bill.  I walk into your place of employment and give you the $100.  According to the federal government, I just “saved” your job.  You weren’t in danger of losing your job at the time I gave you the $100 raise.  But hey, I just gave you money for a small raise, so I must have “saved” your job, right?

I do wonder, though, how many of the great unwashed are buying this “saved or created” nonsense.

November 5, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | big government, economic ignorance, Obama