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The Stimulus Bill has been much more effective in creating new jobs than anyone could have expected. The $18 million website Recovery.gov reports that in the Arizona 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been created using only $761,240 in Federal spending. In the 86th district of Arizona, the $34,000,000.00, in federal funds have also shown great rewards.
So I take it back, the Stimulus Bill is working to create, not only jobs, but also Congressional Districts. You see, there are only 8 Districts in Arizona.
Here's another: More than $36 million in stimulus funds spent between the 69th and 99th districts of the Northern Mariana Islands -- a self-governing US territory that gets only one (non-voting) representative in the House.
There is a whole list of these manufactured statistics, with more coming out every day. ABC News reporter Matthew Jaffe says that the administration was forced to remove over 60,000 jobs from its tallies due to false claims and unrealistic data.
For an administration that has claimed to be scrupulous in accounting surrounding everything connected to the stimulus, mistakes like these contribute to suspicions that counting jobs “saved or created” is more art than science.
The picture used is one of the signs used to tell us that our government funds are at work. Cost per sign; $1700.00 to $3000.00 Georgia alone will spend over $291,000 on signs to remind everyone we are in a recession and that we need our government to bail us out.