During the State of the Union address last week, Bama claimed his stimulus package saved or created "Nearly 2 million jobs." He exaggerates even his own numbers, estimated at 48,000 in October, revised to 600,000 in November, and revised again to 1.6 million in December. I'd call that fuzzy math.
But let's once again say for the sake of argument that the Campaigner-In-Chief's 2 million jobs number is accurate. The purpose of stimulus was to put Americans back to work, and it cost $800 Billion. That's $400,000 per job! And nobody is taking him to task for that. How long is it going to take for all those menial construction jobs to make up for what it cost to save or create them?
And we know he's just making shit up. There's no way to quantify "saved" jobs. And it's been well documented all the fraud in the reporting of these jobs. Yet we're supposed to believe him because he's the chosen one. Just ask him.
So where did all that money really go? The "Free Press" was keen to make big stories over the spending oversights in Iraq during the Bush years, especially when they got to print Haliburton. But they are totally silent, except for the last bastion of true journalism, Fox News, which today highlighted several abuses of stimulus funds where the money apparently disappeared in the bureaucratic process. Billions of dollars just gone without a trace.
Why would anyone trust the Federal government, especially when controlled by Democrats, to manage anything successfully and keep costs down. Hello? Seriously. These people can't get dressed in the morning without generating spending waste, and they want to run health care?
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