Thats crap.Nice spin but it does not fly.
Stimulus Transportation Jobs Cost $161,544 Each - Nashville News Story - WSMV Nashville
White House Inflates Stimulus Job Creation With Accounting Gimmicks
The Obama administration is changing the way it counts jobs created or saved by stimulus spending in a way that will make the programs look far more successful.
Under the old rules, only jobs that were actually newly created or not lost because of stimulus money were counted. Now the administration plans to count all jobs for projects funded by stimulus money—even if that job already existed and the person was never in danger of losing the job.
The changes were made in a little noticed memo sent to federal agencies by OMB director Peter Orszag, according to a new report from ProPublica.
The OMB says the changes were made to clear up confusion about how to count the jobs. Employers were sometimes confused about how to account for jobs, resulting in inaccurate data. California, for instance, claimed that stimulus spending had saved 18,000 corrections department jobs—when only 5,000 were scheduled to be cut. Under the new system, all of those jobs could be counted as products of the stimulus.
Similarly, pay raises can count as stimulus jobs. Chrysler reported last year that a $53 million government contract to build 3,000 vehicles created no jobs because it used existing workers to fill the order. Under the new accounting, those jobs would count as being created by the stimulus plan.
