{"id":2147,"date":"2009-11-17T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2009-11-17T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T18:02:00","slug":"new-stimulus-jobs-in-nonexistent-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2147\/new-stimulus-jobs-in-nonexistent-places\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stimulus Jobs in Nonexistent Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy, those fictitious Stimulus jobs just keep piling up.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, we highlighted an analysis<\/a> done by David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway of The Washington Examiner<\/em>, which\u00a0points out\u00a0that at least 75,343 jobs the Obama Administration claims have been “created or saved” by “Stimulus” funds are bogus.<\/p>\n

Now, Jonathan Karl with ABC News reports<\/a> that at least some of those jobs “saved or created” are in Congressional districts that don’t even exist.\u00a0 Karl writes:<\/p>\n

Here’s a stimulus success story:\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

There’s one problem, though:\u00a0 There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.<\/p>\n

And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Officials with the Recovery Board, which was set up by the Obama Administration to track Stimulus spending, are chalking up the mistake to “human error.”\u00a0 Fine\u2026 but such an error, together with the ever-increasing reports of fictitious Stimulus job numbers, begs the question:\u00a0 How are the American people supposed to trust an Administration that claims to want to create jobs when it can\u2019t even perform due diligence to provide an accurate count of the jobs that may or may not have been “created or saved?”<\/p>\n

The answer:\u00a0 We can\u2019t and we shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Not because of the aforementioned errors and inflated Stimulus job numbers, but because the laws of economics say so.\u00a0 As the editorial page of The Washington Times<\/em><\/a> reminded readers last week, “Jobs created by government come at the expense of the jobs lost when government takes wealth from one part of the economy and moves it to another.”<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a not-so-unique but tried-and-true idea to stimulate job growth:\u00a0\u00a0 How about the Administration abandon its tax-and-spend agenda and just get out of the way?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hey Mr. President, maybe it’s time to give\u00a0FREEDOM a whirl?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy, those fictitious Stimulus jobs just keep piling up. Yesterday, we highlighted an analysis done by David Freddoso and Mark Hemingway of The Washington Examiner, which\u00a0points out\u00a0that at least 75,343 jobs the Obama Administration claims have been “created or saved” by “Stimulus” funds are bogus. Now, Jonathan Karl with ABC News reports that at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,179],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-jobs","tag-stimulus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}