Another Barack Obama ''progress report''...
in English it means FRAUD!
DETSTOTOB (Don't expect to see this on the other board)Quote:
Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands
Associated Press, by Brett J. Blackledge
WASHINGTON – An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports. The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money.
BREAK
Barbara Moore, executive director of the Child Care Association of Brevard County in Cocoa, Fla., reported that the $98,669 she received in stimulus money saved 129 jobs at her center, though the cash was used to give her 129 employees a 3.9 percent cost-of-living raise. She said she needed to boost their salaries because some workers had left for better paying jobs.
"They were leaving because we had not been able to give them a raise in four years," Moore said.
Officials at East Central Technical College in Douglas, Ga., said they now know they shouldn't have claimed 280 stimulus jobs linked to more than $200,000 to buy three semi-trucks and trailers for commercial driving instruction, and a modular classroom and bathroom for a health education program.
"It was an error on someone's part," said Mike Light, spokesman for the Technical College System of Georgia.
The number of jobs should be zero, Light said. The 280 count represents the number of students who would benefit, he said.
The San Joaquin, Calif., Regional Rail Commission reported creating or saving 125 jobs as part of a stimulus project to lay railroad track. Because the project drew from two pools of money, the commission reported that figure twice, bringing the total to 250. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_ ... VsdXNqb2Jz 
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