Imagine when they run your healthcare.
[ABC's The Note] ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: 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.
Super bang-up job there! Imagine how efficient they’ll be at running health care!
The Washington Examiner is keeping track, complete with a Google Map, of the 700,000 and counting jobs ‘not really created or saved’ by the Stimulus.
Some highlights include:
Stetson University claimed to have created or saved 483 jobs with a grant of only $193,469. (which would mean employees make $400 a year).
A month-long roofing project that received less than $30,000 in stimulus funds and involved six workers was erroneously reported as creating 450 jobs.
Teach for America reported that a $2 million grant created or saved 1,425 jobs. In fact, all of the jobs created were accounted for by another grant.
The California State University system received $268.5 million in stimulus funds and claimed that the money allowed them to save over 26,000 jobs or half its workforce. But when pressed, the California State University system admitted they weren’t really going to lay off half their workforce, and that in fact few or none of these jobs would have been lost without the stimulus. “This is not really a real number of people,” a CSU spokesman said. “It’s like a budget number.”
