Seriously, they can't even get their propaganda right:
The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far...It's bad enough that they're saying they created a whopping 30,000 (that's sarcasm) jobs with their trillion dollars of spending, but the number isn't even 30,000...129 jobs a day care? Is anyone reviewing this stuff? Government efficiency on display, folks.
Ed DeSeve, serving as Obama's stimulus overseer, said the administration has been working for weeks to correct mistakes in early counts that identified more than 30,000 jobs paid for with stimulus money. He said a new stimulus report Friday should correct many mistakes an Associated Press review found that showed the earlier report overstated thousands of stimulus jobs...
The AP reviewed a sample of federal contracts, not all 9,000 reported to date, and discovered errors in one in six jobs credited to the $787 billion stimulus program — or nearly 5,000 of the 30,000 jobs claimed so far...
For example:
• Some recipients of stimulus money used the cash to give existing employees pay raises, but each reported saving dozens of jobs with the money, including one Georgia day care that claimed 129 jobs saved.
• A Texas contractor whose business kept 22 employees to handle stimulus contracts saw its job count inflated to 88 because the same workers were counted four times.
• The water department in Palm Beach County, Fla., hired 57 meter readers, customer service representatives and other positions to handle two water projects. But their total job count was incorrectly doubled to 114...
His comments during his daily meeting with reporters came hours after the White House issued a midnight press release complaining about the AP's review of jobs the government credits to stimulus spending.
Of course the economy has lost, what, like millions of jobs? Boy, a couple thousand really hits the mark when you're spending a trillion bucks.
And let's not forget that we were told that the stimulus was needed NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW OR ELSE! DO IT NOW NOW NOW NOW! Yup, working better than your wildest dreams, eh, Joe? Super.
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