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Fantasy land stimulus
Imaginary districts, nonexistent jobs--the Stimulus story
Date published: 11/25/2009

JOBS are big news these days with the national jobless rate above 10 percent. One of the purposes of the $787 billion stimulus bill passed earlier this year was to fund "shovel-ready" projects and stimulate growth, easing unemployment. How is it working? Hard to say, but it seems like a lot of the jobs reported by the White House as created or saved are mythical.

For example, according to recovery .gov, 30 jobs have been saved or created by the stimulus in Arizona's 15th District. The only problem is, Arizona has only eight districts.

But who's counting? Residents of Washington, D.C., may be surprised to find their "state" has 99 congressional districts. And stimulus trackers have added eight new congressional districts to West Virginia.

In all, recovery.gov reports more than $6.4 billion given to 440 chimerical districts all over the United States and its territories. Seems like the White House should have used stimulus money to create one job, at least: bean counter.



Date published: 11/25/2009



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colonel (posted by sixfeetunder , Nov. 26, 2009 10:27 am)    0 likes
spread a little batguano around those 5 leaf plants you been smokin.

Don't believe right slanted news organizations (posted by ColBatGuano , Nov. 26, 2009 9:39 am)    0 likes
but DO believe left slanted organizations

MtMav...Thank you!!! and Please keep (posted by SimplyAmazed , Nov. 25, 2009 5:26 pm)    0 likes
the information coming. People do not like to hear or read the truth but that doesn't mean they should not be printed! Again, thank you! It doesn't matter how many sources you cite, some of these people are going to deny the waste.

Holy Cow!! (posted by CardCrest , Nov. 25, 2009 3:22 pm)    0 likes
26 consecutive posts from MtMav within 91 minutes - that must be a new FredTalk record!! Thanks, repeat Thanks, MtMav!!!

How quickly we forget (posted by MrWonderful , Nov. 25, 2009 1:36 pm)    0 likes
Remember last January? Our absent minded editor should look at year old copies of his fish wrapper. It could have been a lot worse. Managing this inherited economic disaster is a no-win situation for Obama and provides lots of ammo for cheap shot artists like Mr. Akers.

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