When Obama Admin Lies about "Jobs Saved or Created"?

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ABCNews (yes, ABCNews) exclusive story:

Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.

"The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes."

ABC News was able to locate several examples on the government's Web site outlining hundreds of millions of dollars spent and jobs created in Congressional districts that have been misidentified.

For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona's 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district.

Jobs Saved or Created in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist - ABC News
And people have so much faith in the govt in running and nationalizing health care and forcing those to buy insurance under threat of jail time and fines when they can't even do a simple thing by keeping track of the jobs, the money and the districts on their own website?

You gotta be friggin kidding me!! This adminstration has been one white lie after another with hardly any sense of transparency or accountability whatsoever. No wonder more and more Americans are not liking him and his administration's constant Chevy Chase like clumsiness with pratfalls and all.

 

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"This adminstration has been one white lie after another with hardly any sense of transparency or accountability whatsoever."

Hilarious! You don't even know what transparency means, do you?

Thanks Obama for being transparent, we now demand an explanation why the money is being mismanaged.

 

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"Mismanaged" is exactly what describes it over the last several months to the tune of $1.4 trillion dollars over budget....so far.

 

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$6.4 billion in Porkulus money spent in phantom districts?

Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.

According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.

The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.

The stimulus revived 8 recently retired congressional districts. Pennsylvania’s 21st District has received just under $2 million in funds. Mississippi’s 5th District and Oklahoma’s 6th received $1 million from the legislation, respectively. All three were eliminated by the 2000 census.

Many other recipients carried the banner for congressional districts that have been defunct for decades. South Carolina’s 7th took the cake, garnering more than $27 million in stimulus funds, despite being eliminated in 1930. And Virginia’s 12th District may have been written off at the start of the Civil War, but it must carry some sentimental value in Old Dominion–it received more than $2 million, according to recovery.gov.

$6.4 Billion Stimulus Goes to Phantom Districts

This is the very microcosm of how our govt work today with Obama at the helm of the Titanic. Incompetancy on every level.

 

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Recovery chief says, paraphrasing, "Yeah, I can’t back up those numbers."

Earl Devaney, the man in charge at Recovery.org, is unable to deny this problem. In response to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Devaney says that he cannot certify any of the jobs data published by the government. Oh really?

The chairman of the Obama administration’s Recovery Board is telling lawmakers that he can’t certify jobs data posted at the Recovery.gov Web site — and doesn’t have access to a “master list” of stimulus recipients that have neglected to report data.
Earl Devaney, the chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, responded to questions posed by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., late yesterday to say the board can’t vouch for the numbers submitted by recipients of stimulus funding.

“Your letter specifically asks if I am able to certify that the number of jobs reported as created/saved on Recovery.gov is accurate and auditable. No, I am not able to make this certification,” Devaney wrote, in a letter provided to ABC News.

Devaney rejected Issa’s suggestion that the site include a more prominent disclaimer, such as an asterisk or a footnote. He said the site already does mention in a note to users that “errors and omissions” are likely.

And Issa responded:

“This just confirms what we already know, that [the] Administration cannot certify info on recovery.gov as accurate and auditable. The man charged with providing accountability for stimulus spending cannot verify the accuracy of the job reports that the Administration – filtered through [the Office of Management and Budget] – have provided him.”

“It’s a startling admission that he hasn’t even been provided with a list of who should have reported, which means he can’t know who didn’t report, which just adds fuel to the argument that the whole effort at transparency has failed. The Administration has provided inaccurate data, missing data, data that might be missing but they don’t even know for sure.

Can't even get the numbers straight or keep track and ya'll want the admin to take over the health care business? Yet we have a $60 billion dollar a year on waste and fraud in Medicare and like lemmings go over the cliff?