Patriot Politics

Politico breaks with: Obama: Stimulus saved 1 million jobs .  Could this White House be any more lame? “Earlier this month, tens of thousands of state and local governments, private companies, colleges and universities and community organizations across the country submitted reports on how they have put Recovery Act funds to work through September 30th. Later today, when these totals are posted, we anticipate that these reports will credit the Recovery Act with directly creating or saving about 650,000 jobs. Because these reports show that less than half of the spending through that date created or saved about 650,000 jobs, they confirm government and private forecaster’s estimates that overall Recovery Act spending has created and saved at least 1 million jobs.

‘The reports will be posted in-full on Recovery.gov this afternoon, offering the American people with more information about the Recovery Act at work than with any previous government program.”

TRANSLATION:

“Oh . . . well, that 30,000 jobs created number . . . errr. . . that we admitted we overstated by 5,000 . . . didn’t include all those jobs out there that were saved by the stimulus . . . and we know 25,000 doesn’t sound like a lot, so let’s just say about 600,000 jobs because we are expecting the reports to say those were saved, and then we can just apply that ratio because all the money hasn’t been used yet and presto!  We’re at a million, just like that!  See?  This mirror is so transparent because of all the smoke!”