Inflated stimulus jobs claims

[chadbag]

new 2 million jobs saved is inflated

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2010/01/13/white-house-can-t-keep-track-jobs-saved-or-lies-told

[REdTula]

This kind of underhanded play with statistics shouldn't surprise any of us. It's clear this administration will stop at nothing to lie and manipulate the American people into shoving their socialist agenda down America's throat.

[JSantoro]

One example is the current push to add 20-30k more personnel to the civilian DoD side of the house. Most of those hires are coming from the contractors who --wait for it -- already hold those billets on the contractor side. Lots of them asked to take a GS job (or whatever pay band it happens to be) do it because of the "sure thing" that a GS position represents. It's like having tenure at a school, it just about takes an act of God to fire your ass.

The administration counts it as a job created, when in fact it is merely the same job that already existed, with the paycheck coming more directly to the recipient, (plus the complimentary lobotomy).