Recovery.BS
Can’t find a job? Go west, young man.
The North Dakota 99th is hiring—and paying good, too:
According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.
The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.
The stimulus helped to create 35 congressional districts in Washington D.C. and the four American territories, all of which have no congressional districts. These areas received $5 of the $6.4 billion distributed to the non-existent districts.
I am on record as happily volunteering all of our congressional districts here in Massachusetts. I’d rather the likes of Barney Frank, John Tierney, William Delahunt, and Ed Markey go on the dole rather than pass legislation increasing it geometrically.
And when called on these absurd lies, the ObamaGeeks replied:
Ed Pound, Director of Communications for the board, said that the faulty information came from recipients of stimulus funds.
“People make errors, and we’ve found people are making errors in these reports,” Pound said…
Recipients file their reports on a password-protected site. That information is then relayed to officials who oversee the recovery.gov website to post, Pound said. Unless an egregious error is noted, Pound said they post the information exactly as it is received.
“Our job is data integrity, not data quality,” he said.
I’d accept either one, especially from your boss.
Case after case of money being spent on bogus jobs, now in bogus places. No wonder unemployment jumped to 10.2% last month: good economic news travels slow from the North Dakota 99th and the Guam 2nd.