WASHINGTON — 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.
The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.
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. ...
More on this farce here. The Obama administration defends the practice of equating a pay raise with a "job saved" thusly:
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job," HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said. [emphasis added]
Huh? Accounting only a government official could love. So if you were one of the lucky few who got a pay raise -- congrats! Your job was "saved" by Obama. Now kneel in the direction of Washington, D.C. and pay homage.
Also, note that the "jobs saved" seem to be mostly government, government contractor or "community action" type jobs, not non-government-related private enterprise jobs. I guess those guys are outta luck.
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