Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Districts That Don't Exist

[tsptalk]

Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853)

Rep. David Obey, D-Wisc, who chairs the powerful House appropriations Committee, issued a paper statement demanding that the recovery.gov Web site be updated.

"The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes."

[grandma]

Impressive article! there have been reports in the papers here & there, but this really has it all together!
Imagine! The site is a well-funded enterprise; the General Services Administration updated it earlier this year with an $18 million grant. The folks reporting from the districts didn't know what district they are in??
It most probably took the $18 mil to educate the Supervisors of this cartel as to how to manipulate the numbers... They just forgot to include the variety of numbers in the variety of states ???? :o poor souls!

Is this widely publicized by ABD, CBS, NBC ? It reeks more of falsehoods than honest errors!

[WorkFE]

and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes."


Nice of him to think of us:suspicious:

[CountryBoy]

Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts. :laugh:

Job creation ala bHo and these nimrods run our Health plan. :blink: Don't ya just love the American education system or maybe it's an ethical problem with these clowns.

Just another example of what the administration think of the American people. :mad:

[Buster]

That’s what is going on CB…These sort of claims are coming in from all over the country, that Jobs have been created from the stimulus money from Districts that don’t even exist...Some of the highest fraudulent claims are coming out of Massachusetts, go figure that one…..The excuses coming out of Washington, is that these are simple data entry errors...uh huh..okie dokie..:rolleyes:

[CountryBoy]

Buster,

Data entry errors.... errors that big and I'd be out of a job. ACORN must have had major input to this site with the experience they have with stealth voters. :laugh:

[Frixxxx]

Buster,

Data entry errors.... errors that big and I'd be out of a job. ACORN must have had major input to this site with the experience they have with stealth voters. :laugh:

Ummm yes, fired, terminated and probably burned at the stake......

Mistakes happen~ but where's the retraction? Remember in newspapers where they would actually RETRACT misinformation?

Now we have to wait until a freaking congressional hearing decides whether or not to convene and who the sacrificial lamb is for taking the fall.

Fix it~Report it~and let's move on:cool:!!!

[Birchtree]

The buggers at Acorn actually had a hand in drafting policy standards for the minority at risk subprimers and therefore helped create our recent crisis. So Michele Bachmann says there are gansters in the BHO administration - doesn't surprise me. They are all a bunch of butt diggers.

[mick504]

I wonder if BHO employed Acorn staff to derrive the numbers....it looks so!

[KevinD]

The buggers at Acorn actually had a hand in drafting policy standards for the minority at risk subprimers and therefore helped create our recent crisis. So Michele Bachmann says there are gansters in the BHO administration - doesn't surprise me. They are all a bunch of butt diggers.

He he...he he...He said butt diggers.

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[Show-me]

Spin, spin, spin, spin. Don't you love it? Everything is fine. Vote for me, I will save you or at least make you think it until after the next election.

[Silverbird]

[Not fine - and I doubt it's a plot because it appears the federal agencies don't even have an automated system to do reporting. So of course reporting is going to have mistakes. I have this nightmare picture of some poor intern filling in a spreadsheet with multiple columns. I hope it's not that bad, but in some cases, it may very well be the true state of affairs. Don't assume it's planned when it may be plain old wrong data in wrong column that also has been misstyped. The problem is the presentation of data - someone's got to put it in the form and usually the lowest person in the totem pole gets stuck. So personally I only look at the data out of DoE (their reporting on their website actually is somewhat readable form since they have so many projects), the overall report is pretty much unreadable.]

Survey shows federal agencies need help with transparency

More than 40 percent of federal agencies not ready to comply with OMB mandate for transparency, efficiency and accountability

http://fcw.com/articles/2009/11/16/web-federal-agency-transparency.aspx

[Silverbird]

I think there's some spreadsheet edits going on here.:cheesy:

Feds: False congressional districts removed from stimulus site :embarrest:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/18/stimulus.district.errors/index.html
[D'oh, not a plot, just plain "which district am I in anyway?" reporting.]