See: A Stimulating Pay Raise
"jobs saved or created.... wildly exaggerated.... The federal stimulus report for Massachusetts has so many errors, missing data, or estimates instead of actual job counts that it may be impossible to accurately tally how many people have been employed"
Translation: YOU WUZ ROBBED, American taxpayers!!!!
"Stimulus job boost in state exaggerated, review finds; Errors, incomplete data, estimated positions go into federal report" by Jenn Abelson and Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | November 11, 2009
While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, filed erroneous figures, or claimed jobs for work that has not yet started....
In interviews with recipients, the Globe found that several openly acknowledged creating far fewer jobs than they have been credited for. One of the largest reported jobs figures comes from Bridgewater State College, which is listed as using $77,181 in stimulus money for 160 full-time work-study jobs for students. But Bridgewater State spokesman Bryan Baldwin said the college made a mistake and the actual number of new jobs was “almost nothing.’’ Bridgewater has submitted a correction, but it is not yet reflected in the report.Yeah, it was a "mistake," sure.
In other cases, federal money that recipients already receive annually - subsidies for affordable housing, for example - was reclassified this year as stimulus spending, and the existing jobs already supported by those programs were credited to stimulus spending. Some of these recipients said they did not even know the money they were getting was classified as stimulus funds until September, when federal officials told them they had to file reports.
That's when the HEAT on this WASTEFUL SPENDING on FAVORED PORK PROJECTS and SPECIAL INTERESTS started to come because NO JOBS were created!
See: Slow Saturday Special: Patrick Pimps Football Footpath For Patriots
So THIS GOVERNMENT said EVERY DOLLAR = a JOB and is LYING ABOUT IT!!!!
I thought WE GOT CHANGE, Obama!!!!
Silly me!!!!!!!!!
“There were no jobs created. It was just shuffling around of the funds,’’ said Susan Kelly, director of property management for Boston Land Co., which reported retaining 26 jobs with $2.7 million in rental subsidies for its affordable housing developments in Waltham. “It’s hard to figure out if you did the paperwork right. We never asked for this.’’
The federal stimulus report for Massachusetts has so many errors, missing data, or estimates instead of actual job counts that it may be impossible to accurately tally how many people have been employed by the massive infusion of federal money. Massachusetts is expected to receive an estimated $1 billion more in stimulus contracts, grants, and loans....
More TAXPAYER $$$$ for LOOTING, 'eh?
Think of it as FILLING UP the TROUGH!
And WHY are they SITTING ON IT, hmmm?
We are in REAL TROUBLE right now!
Some of the errors are striking: The community action agency based in Greenfield reported 90 full-time jobs associated with the $245,000 it got for its preschool Head Start program. That averages out to just $2,700 per full-time job. The agency said it used the money to give roughly 150 staffers cost-of-living raises.
Oh, the GLOBE FINALLY DISCOVERED my little piss-ant town, eh?
See:
Yeah, piss all over us for our piddly little "stimulus."
It's NOT EVEN as much as a BONUS CHECK from GOLDMAN!!!!
The figure reported on the federal report was a mistake, a result of a staffer’s misunderstanding of the filing instructions, said executive director Jane Sanders.
Yeah, sure!
Several other Head Start agencies also reported using stimulus funds for pay raises and claimed jobs for it. At Bridgewater State, Baldwin said the college mistakenly counted part-time student jobs as full time. Some agencies that received stimulus money reported jobs for work that had not started....
If GOVERNMENT makes SO MANY MISTAKES WHY are we giving them MORE MONEY?
Another source of confusion over the job counting is because Congress this year labeled as stimulus initiatives several longstanding programs, such as student work-study and low-income rental subsidies, that it otherwise regularly funds in annual appropriations bills. In some cases Congress increased the funding amount, too, so the stimulus legislation was a vehicle for expanding government support for people in need.
Yeah, the LOOTING GOVERNMENT that CARES!!!
Un-frikkin-believable!!
You can SHOVE the INSULTS, you MSM puke!!!!
Regardless of its label, the recipients treated the funding as business as usual.
Which is WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING for MONTHS!!!!!!!!
Of course, that is REGARDLESS of FACTS, right, MSM puke?
Only in September, when government officials told them they had to report on their stimulus spending, did they confront the issue of how to account for jobs associated with the money they received....
And WE KNOW WHY they had to do that! Because GOVERNMENTS LIE!!!!!!!!!!!
The stimulus bill - a $787 billion package of tax breaks, expanded government benefits, and infrastructure improvements - was signed into law in February by President Obama, who said it would create and save jobs by preserving local government services and spurring short- and long-term economic development. To be sure, the legislation has accomplished an important goal: funding public services facing the ax after the recession created gaping shortfalls in state and local government budgets.
Yup, TO BE SURE -- which means you MUST DOUBT IT ENTIRELY because it is coming from a LYING, AGENDA-PUSHING NEWSPAPER!
So Worcester and Lynn, for example, were able to keep police officers targeted for layoffs, schools across the state lost far fewer teachers, and community agencies preserved staff in the face of mounting demands for social services.
That is NOT STIMULUS!!!!!
The president also said the legislation demanded an unprecedented level of accounting from recipients....
Oh, that was just ANOTHER OBAMA LIE!
Getting USE TO 'EM, aren't you, America?
