When is a job not a job?
When it lasts a grand total of seven days and is being claimed as a job “created” by the porkulus bill.
PORTLAND, Ore. — How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.
But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data.
Oregon is jimmying the statistics so that any work done for any pay over any period of time is considered a job created.
I have to give the state-run al-Associated Press writer credit for calling out Our Lord and Savior for throwing around unverifiable numbers for jobs “created” by the porkulus legislation
With the economy in tatters and unemployment rising, Oregon’s inventive math underscores the urgency for politicians across the country to show that spending programs designed to stimulate the economy are working — even if that means stretching the facts.
At the federal level, President Barack Obama has said the federal stimulus has created 150,000 jobs, a number based on a misused formula and which is so murky it can’t be verified.
In other words, Barack Hussein Obama … lied! Imagine that, Obama lying. Who’d a-thunk it?
Says Warner Todd Huston writing at Stop The ACLU:
Who cannot agree that counting a temporary job that lasted a mere seven days to the “jobs created” column is a farce? A seven-day -long job is meaningless to job stability and job creation. A seven-day-long job adds nothing long term and barely anything short term to the economy or the nation and is built on a false assumption that the money wasted by government has “done something” for the economy. It is but a shady accounting practice meant to cover Washington’s rear end and nothing more.
More Enron-style accounting tricks from the folks who gave us Enron in the first place.
