Obamanomics: A Raise Now Equals A “Job Saved”
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For all of us who’ve been wondering exactly how to quantify a “job saved”– we now have an answer courtesy of the Admin. If you got a raise, your job counts as a job saved. Whaaa? An Associated Press review of the latest stimulus reports (which the White House promised would undergo MORE extensive reviews to ensure accuracy) found that more than two-thirds of 14,506 jobs credited to the recovery act by just one federal office were overstated… because they counted pay increases for existing workers as jobs saved.
The inflated job counts are reportedly the result of the administration instructing local community agencies that received money to count the raises as “jobs saved”.
Disclotheth the AP:
Most of the inflated figures were like those cited in the 935 saved jobs reported by the Southwest Georgia Community Action in Moultrie, Ga. The agency, like hundreds of others collecting Head Start money, claimed all its existing employees’ jobs were saved because they received a pay raise with the stimulus cash.
Similar claims led to overstating by more than 9,300 the number of jobs saved with more than $323 million in stimulus money distributed by the Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families, the AP’s review found.
More than 250 other community agencies in the U.S. similarly reported saving jobs when using the money to give pay raises, pay for training and continuing education, extend employee work hours or buy equipment, according to their spending reports.
The Georgia program inflated the numbers even further by claiming the recovery money saved more jobs than the number of people it actually employs. The agency employs 508 people but claimed 935 jobs were saved because of confusion over government reports.
HHS spokesman Luis Rosero hilariously defends the practice saying:
“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job.”
Huh? Does that even make sense? Does a raise save the rest of your job too, or are you now considered a part-time worker? Is your job saved for life? Does anyone even get raises these days? (Put your hands down, Goldman Sachs.)
Obamanomics. We do not discriminate against the math-impaired.
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November 5th, 2009 at 4:49 am
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* Plan out your CV, if you’ve never done a CV before, this is the time to learn.
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