Category: Government at work

Feds have no idea if stimulus plan is working

Associated Press caught the Team Obama overstating the number of jobs created by the $1 trillion plus stimulus plan -- spending that will eventually contribute to the country's economic collapse.

The administration both defended its tallies and scrambled to correct them.

Here's some of what AP found:

-- 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.

If you like the way the feds run the stimulus plan, you'll love the way they run health care, if reform passes.

Meanwhile, the feds concede they cannot distinguish between jobs added and jobs saved.

If that's true, it means the government doesn't know squat about what's going on. If you don't know the underlying details, you can't possible know the full picture of what's happening.

We shouldn't be shocked that the Obama administration runs the stimulus plan like the Bush administration ran the Katrina clean-up -- inefficiently.

Politicians are politicians, and government is government, no matter its political stripe.

From Washington's perspective, it doesn't matter if the stimulus plan works. It's you're money they're spending. Or more accurately, your grandchildren's money.

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