Rep. Darrell Issa: Counterpoint: Fake job numbers vital to stimulus propaganda

There are jobs created in Congressional Districts which don't exist, same jobs listed three times as created, and and many more instances of job creation that are false. Who is getting the money for creation of these fraudulent jobs? This Administration expects all of us to pay attention to what they are saying about jobs created when many are phoney. This time the mainstream media has started doing some investigation, which is shocking in itself, since the are also finding the fictious jobs.

If this Administration lies about the number of jobs created and we see what is obvious fraud going on, why would we trust them with healthcare?

Rep. Darrell Issa: Counterpoint: Fake job numbers vital to stimulus propagandaBy: Rep. Darrell Issa
Op-Ed Contributor
November 18, 2009

Since President Obama took office, the American people have been subjected to an aggressive propaganda campaign designed to convince them that the $787 billion stimulus bill is working. Month after month, as unemployment continues to rise, the administration has sent its spinmeisters out to trumpet an altogether dubious number of jobs "created or saved."

Vice President Biden -- the man appointed by the president to oversee the recovery effort -- has shamelessly continued to claim credit for as many as one million jobs that the administration argues the stimulus has "created or saved."

Meanwhile, unemployment hit the highest point in a quarter century, and 3.8 million more Americans are out of work since the White House promised to "get the economy moving again." There's good reason to doubt thepresident's policies are working.

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"That is why I've asked Vice President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort -- because nobody messes with Joe."

Apparently, somebody is messing with Joe. Or even worse, Joe seems to be messing with us.

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From $1.2 million in stimulus funds that saved 935 jobs at a Georgia community council with only 508 employees, to a $1,047 lawnmower in Arkansas purchased with stimulus funds that resulted in 50 jobs, to the $26,174 grant for roof repairs in Texas that created 450 jobs, the signature item in the president's economic policy has been fraught with Enron-style accounting tricks and fraudulent reporting.

And all from a president who promised an "unprecedented level of openness and transparency."

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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