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Exclusive: Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist

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How many non-existant jobs were saved?...LOL!!!!

Earlier this morning, Sammy Benoit asked me how it felt to live in a much larger Minnesota, with new Congressional districts popping up all over. Any thrill of getting extra representation in Congress got muted by the fact that the Obama administration apparently added more phantom Congressional districts (440) than actually exist now (435), and that they somehow showed $6.4 billion in Porkulus money going to these nonexistent districts. Watchdog.org has tracked down the massive failure to check data at Recovery.gov, the reporting arm of Porkulus for the White House:

Hot Air Blog Archive $6.4 billion in Porkulus money spent in phantom districts?
 
More lies to defend a bad program thst is Obamas and Obamas alone.


Jobs Saved or Created in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist - ABC News


ere's a stimulus success story: 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.
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Discrepancies on government web site call into question stimulus spending.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.

Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error.
 
Re: $6.4 billion in Porkulus money spent in phantom districts?

Does any of this really surprise anyone here?

Politicians lie. Period.

But the crop we have no has reached a new low.
 
Now no one will believe any numbers on the stimulus or jobs saved.

Just shows what liars the Obama administration is.
 
We have to realize that Chicago Politics have been brought to the White House.

Con men depend on the fact that nobody will check the information they put out there.

I just don't understand in this 24 hour news cycle how they can think that nobody will check how many congressional districts are in a particular state.

The question is, is where did the money really go?

The lieing is not the big story here, we expect them to lie, the story is where did the money go.

Made up people in a made up district can't spend it.
 
We have to realize that Chicago Politics have been brought to the White House.

Con men depend on the fact that nobody will check the information they put out there.

I just don't understand in this 24 hour news cycle how they can think that nobody will check how many congressional districts are in a particular state.

The question is, is where did the money really go?

The lieing is not the big story here, we expect them to lie, the story is where did the money go.

Made up people in a made up district can't spend it.


Great question Mason, and it should be the only question. I think that would be a scandal that will end up being part of what brings demo's down for a long, long time.


j-mac
 
Obama creates jobs in district that doesn't exist

Good news: Obama creates 30 new jobs in one congressional district. Bad news: No such district | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times

"Chicago politics, where voting is such a revered civic duty that people do it even after they're dead, cold, stiff, stuffed, boxed and buried beneath the permafrost for years, has now come to D.C. with the Obama administration.

This afternoon comes the most encouraging economic news, courtesy of our keen-eyed buddy Rick Klein over at ABC, that the Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.

That works out to only $25,380.67 spent to create each individual job.

Seems like a lot per slot, but those 30 folks must be happy to be employed again and paying taxes.

This will be a real feather in the cap of Vice President Joe Biden, who's been left behind and assigned by the ever-campaigning president to monitor the stimulus plan, its spending and effectiveness moving into the crucial midterm elections of 2010. Might the Democrats snatch that House seat?

So the people of that 15th Congressional District in staunchly Republican Arizona should be pretty happy about this.

Trouble is, there is no 15th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn't exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee. There are only eight. Period.

But the administration's much-vaunted recovery.gov website reported these jobs as being created there.

Could well be a computer glitch. Lord knows humans would never make such a dumb, misleading mistake, even in politics.

But then the trouble is that just months after grandly unveiling the recovery.gov website to showcase its economic prowess and tech-savvy, the Obama administration just spent 18 million additional taxpayer dollars to redesign the still new website.

And that site proudly also reported nonexistent new stimulus spending not just in Arizona but other states across the country.

So that looks to have worked pretty well, at least if you're counting computer designer jobs created.

Anyway, how do you think the 15th will vote next year?

-- Andrew Malcolm"

And there more uncounted districts, aswell.

What a dumb guy we have in the WH! Is this what we want for our president?

Next thing you know is that he'll start giving money to dead people, OH, WHAT... he already does!

Talk about waste and fraud.
 
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You mean this administration has been caught fudging numbers and nobody on the "left" really has a problem with that and are in fact lining to defend the administration here? What a shocking development!
 
this actually makes sense considering Obama believes there are 57+ states.
 
Re: $6.4 billion in Porkulus money spent in phantom districts?

Does any of this really surprise anyone here?

Nope... Saw this coming a mile away.

Obama and his people think they can say anything they want and get away with it... unfortunately, thanks to the support he has in the main stream media, that's pretty much true :(
 
Isn't it interesting that this thread has fallen to the bottom of the news?

This should shock and amaze all americans, your government is not even trying to hide their corruption anymore, they think you all fools!:shock:
 
Isn't it interesting that this thread has fallen to the bottom of the news?

This should shock and amaze all americans, your government is not even trying to hide their corruption anymore, they think you all fools!:shock:

I think we all know the Libbos weren't going to spend much time on this thread...:rofl
 
I think we all know the Libbos weren't going to spend much time on this thread...:rofl

Because it's a pointless thread. The reports will be allocated to the appropriate districts and this will be a non-issue. Try to find something more substantial to bash Obama on, there are plenty of topics out there.

Here is one example of incorrect allocation ABC found:
"For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona's 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district."

It appears to be errors of the receipt submissions having the wrong district on them. Recovery.gov was just failing in quality control of the receipts submitted for their reports.
 
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Because it's a pointless thread. The reports will be allocated to the appropriate districts and this will be a non-issue. Try to find something more substantial to bash Obama on, there are plenty of topics out there.

Here is one example of incorrect allocation ABC found:
"For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona's 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district."

It appears to be errors of the receipt submissions having the wrong district on them. Recovery.gov was just failing in quality control of the receipts submitted for their reports.

This issue will bring down this administration, the corruption in this "stimulus package" is alarming, and we have only begun to scratch the surface.

Waterloo.....this is it!
 
This issue will bring down this administration, the corruption in this "stimulus package" is alarming, and we have only begun to scratch the surface.

Waterloo.....this is it!

Where is the corruption? I haven't seen anything to suggest the receipts were deliberately labeled incorrectly or that, if the receipts were submitted correct, the data was deliberately inputted incorrectly.
 
Where is the corruption? I haven't seen anything to suggest the receipts were deliberately labeled incorrectly or that, if the receipts were submitted correct, the data was deliberately inputted incorrectly.

You are not reading between the lines, 38 million dollars for 4 jobs, this is outrageous, there has to be corruption in numbers like that. Take off your partisan beer goggles, and see this ugly thing, for what it truly is......
 
Because it's a pointless thread. The reports will be allocated to the appropriate districts and this will be a non-issue. Try to find something more substantial to bash Obama on, there are plenty of topics out there.

Here is one example of incorrect allocation ABC found:
"For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona's 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district."

It appears to be errors of the receipt submissions having the wrong district on them. Recovery.gov was just failing in quality control of the receipts submitted for their reports.

It is a non-issue if you don't care Obama lies. It is a non-issue if you don't care the dems are not being transparent as they promised. It is an issue to those of us that don't want the government controlling us and lying to us.
 
Because it's a pointless thread. The reports will be allocated to the appropriate districts and this will be a non-issue. Try to find something more substantial to bash Obama on, there are plenty of topics out there.

Here is one example of incorrect allocation ABC found:
"For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona's 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district."

It appears to be errors of the receipt submissions having the wrong district on them. Recovery.gov was just failing in quality control of the receipts submitted for their reports.

Stimulus money being funneled ino fictitional congressional districts and winding up who knows where is pointless?
 
1. it's a government website, recovery.gov

2. LOL!

3. they're responsible, at the very least, like a 6th grader, for making sure their reports are ACCURATE before posting them

4. it's not that hard to see---86th district

5. LOL!

6. ideology is one thing with this president

7. competence, however, is THE ISSUE

8. he's lost all credibility on spending, economics, budgets---basically, anything with numbers in it

9. g edward deseve, "special adviser to the president," is on it, tho

10. he's gonna go thru all the data with a "fine tooth comb"

11. whew

12. the north chicago school district claims 473 jobs "saved"

13. trouble is, only about 250 work there

14. there's a lawnmower for a graveyard in fayetteville, wisc, responsible for 50 employment opportunities

15. the directions of all these mistakes is always the same---never money saved

16. look at the sources---abc is all over this, cbs is #2, AP, cnn, local newspapers are breaking story after story

17. for months

18. it's now farcical

19. going forward, how can anyone trust him, them?

20. SNL lampooned biden this weekend---"the stimulus is working, the stimulus is working (hand waving hypnotically between the veep's eyes and the camera)"

21. "lots of jobs growing---bankruptcy processors, repossessors..."

22. how do you measure "saved" jobs in the first place?

it's now a question of competency
 
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Great question Mason, and it should be the only question. I think that would be a scandal that will end up being part of what brings demo's down for a long, long time.


j-mac

Nope, it would only become District-Gate if happened under a Republican president. The Messiah is BLESSED with a magic media broom that sweeps everything under the rug.

Everyone notices the lumpy rug, but it's considered boorish to comment, since the Messiah told us how He really really wants to clean up Washington.
 
Where is the corruption? I haven't seen anything to suggest the receipts were deliberately labeled incorrectly or that, if the receipts were submitted correct, the data was deliberately inputted incorrectly.

So, they're all just stupid? I fail to see how that's a positive...:rofl
 
Because it's a pointless thread. The reports will be allocated to the appropriate districts and this will be a non-issue. Try to find something more substantial to bash Obama on, there are plenty of topics out there.

Here is one example of incorrect allocation ABC found:
"For example, recovery.gov says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent in Arizona's 86th congressional district in a project for the Navajo Housing authority, which is actually located in the 1st congressional district."

It appears to be errors of the receipt submissions having the wrong district on them. Recovery.gov was just failing in quality control of the receipts submitted for their reports.


Damn gibberish, you spoiled their circle jerk, just as they were having so much fun too. :rofl
 
Damn gibberish, you spoiled their circle jerk, just as they were having so much fun too. :rofl

So I take it you approve of these fake congressional districts.
 
No no Prof....It's all just gibberish.
 
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