{"id":1705,"date":"2009-10-29T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2009-10-29T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:09:02","slug":"stimulus-creates-jobs-for-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1705\/stimulus-creates-jobs-for-fact-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus Creates Jobs &#8230; for Fact-Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-jobs-stimulus29-2009oct29,0,5650031.story\" target=\"_blank\">An AP story today<\/a> shows that the Obama Administration overcounted the number of jobs &#8220;created or saved&#8221; thus far by the stimulus package by about 5,000. That may sound like small change, but not when you realize that the Administration&#8217;s entire claim was only 30,000. In other words, one in every six of those jobs is make-believe.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an intellectual exercise to lay the stimulus bare. It came into effect on February 17 &#8212;\u00a0254 days ago. Based on the newest estimates that means it&#8217;s created about 100 jobs a day (or 2 per day per state). Leaving aside the opportunity cost of pulling the stimulus money out of the private sector, does anybody think that 14 jobs a week is going to pull California out of the morass?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AP story today shows that the Obama Administration overcounted the number of jobs &#8220;created or saved&#8221; thus far by the stimulus package by about 5,000. That may sound like small change, but not when you realize that the Administration&#8217;s entire claim was only 30,000. In other words, one in every six of those jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,179],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-obama","tag-stimulus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}