We all knew the numbers thrown out by the government were suspect even if no one could prove it. Now the truth is starting to come out.

President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.

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About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.

Part of the problem with how “saved jobs” were counted is the fact that the government appears to have counted RAISES as saved jobs. The asinine quote of the day comes from HHS spokesman Luis Rosero:

“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,”

Call me a nut ball but a raise is not “saving” anything, it is moving your pay from one level to another – it is giving you MORE than you had, not preserving the status quo.

I guess people will say anything to make their point regardless of reality.

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