{"id":1204,"date":"2009-11-01T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2009-11-01T10:16:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T14:16:36","slug":"obamas-calculator-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/obamas-calculator-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s ‘Calculator Abuse’"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to ABC News’ Jack Tapper,<\/a> Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice president, used the term “Calculator Abuse” when a reporter did some basic\u00a0arithmetic\u00a0\u00a0the the federal government’s own numbers. \u00a0The government’s own numbers show what the reporter pointed out, $160 billion spent divided by 1 million jobs “created or saved” means that each of those jobs “created or saved” cost the US taxpayer $160,000 per job. \u00a0Once again, Team Lightbringer\u00a0responded\u00a0with a classic defense, “Who are you going to believe? Me or that lying calculator?”<\/p>\n

As we know know, the term “jobs created or saved” is a scam created by our Dear Leader to hide the truth from the American People. \u00a0It has become so obvious that even CBS “News” has been forced to report on it.<\/p>\n

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Ace goes into much more detail <\/a>on how the Obama administration knew it was a farce from day one and were much more concerned with creating the illusion of economic growth where there is none.<\/p>\n

When the WH demanded that those who received Spendulus money “report” back on how many jobs were “saved or created,” they insisted upon a nonsensical rule: If a single dollar of Spendulus was spent on an employee’s salary, whether that employee was a new employee or an old one, that gets counted as a job “saved or created.” If he’s a new employee, that job was created. If he’s an existing employee, that job was saved.<\/p>\n

For $1.<\/p>\n

Yes, $1. Because the nonsensical rules the White House told these people to count “saved or created” jobs by simply stated: If any employee’s salary is paid, in whole or in part (any part!), count that as a job “saved or created” by the spending.<\/p>\n

And then report that number back to us.<\/p>\n

Note that the White House’s rules do not seek to discover which jobs really were “saved or created.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The harsh reality of the current economy, the worst since Jimmy Carter, and its effects on the average American just doesn’t matter to our Dear Leader<\/em>.
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\nMichelle Malkin has more details<\/a> on the “jobs created and saved” scam.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: More evidence that our Dear Leader<\/em>‘s “jobs created and saved” numbers are complete and utter nonsense<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.
\nThe Georgia nonprofit’s inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government’s latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an “extensive review” to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.
\nAbout 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update<\/strong>: Even the way far left leaning Boston Globe has noticed that the White House numbers have no connection of reality<\/a>. It is interesting to listen to the Globe reporter try to spin this White House scam as a “mistake<\/em>.” There is no mistake. Team Lightbringer knew that the porkulus wouldn’t actually create any actual jobs, so they came up with “rules” that would make it appear that some actual benefit was was created by that massive spending bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to ABC News’ Jack Tapper, Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice president, used the term “Calculator Abuse” when a reporter did some basic\u00a0arithmetic\u00a0\u00a0the the federal government’s own numbers. \u00a0The government’s own numbers show what the reporter pointed out, $160 billion spent divided by 1 million jobs “created or saved” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,52,19],"tags":[140,251,262,414,574,584,621,625,839],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-obama-economy","tag-one-term-president","tag-politics","tag-porkulus","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-jq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}