Re: Lies, Damned Lies, and . . .

gbarto — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:47:12 -0000

"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job," HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.

The latest stimulus report, released Friday, significantly overstates the number of jobs spared with money from programs serving families and children, mostly the Head Start preschool program. The report shows hundreds of the programs used nearly $323 million to provide pay raises and other benefits to their existing employees.

The raises themselves were appropriate — the stimulus law set aside money for Head Start salary increases — but converting that number into jobs proved difficult. The Obama administration told Head Start officials to consider a fraction of each employee as a job saved.

-AP

What happens if we turn this around? At my company, there's a freeze on wages and overtime. I gather it's the same in a lot of other places. By the government's logic, if you'd been getting COLAs and overtime before, but now you're not, does that translate into jobs lost? I'd think so. Unemployment may be worse than we realized.

Re: Lies, Damned Lies, and . . .

Paul in Athens — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:52:55 -0000

Oh wow. I sold them nine pair of work gloves, so I too, helped nine members of the Corps to work. Together we "saved" 18 jobs. See how easy it is?

Given that track record, there should be, oh, about 900 trillion billion votes cast in the few states that are electing someone today.

One vote for each office. Times the number of offices on the ticket. Times the number of voters. Government math.

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