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To: tejek who wrote (525669)	11/3/2009 4:06:40 PM
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Obama’s Phony “Created or Saved” Numbers Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:54 am When Obama says the stimulus “created or saved” x number of jobs, you already know that’s a bogus claim. It’s just common sense. But now, Bill Bush at the Columbus Dispatch has the hard proof. Marvel as he explains “the fuzzy math involved in pinpointing a saved-jobs number”: The Obama administration announced Friday that federal stimulus money had created or saved about 7,200 education jobs in Ohio as of Sept. 30. Although a couple of hundred of those jobs were in Columbus City Schools, the district acknowledged yesterday that many of the “saved” jobs definitely wouldn’t have been lost in the first place, and others might not have been lost at all. How did this happen? Apparently, the Obama administration (though its proxy, the Ohio Department of Education) gave the district a choice when it came to reporting on jobs that were neither created nor saved. School district officials could say the jobs had been “created.” Or, they could that they were “saved”: Of the 212.5 full-time equivalent jobs the district said were funded with part of the $64 million in stimulus it expects to receive, about 65 percent were “saved,” including 36 principals and assistant principals. So was the district on the verge of laying off 36 school administrators? “No,” Dannemiller said, explaining that the reporting choices were “created” and “saved.” “They weren’t ‘created,’ obviously, so our only other choice was ’saved.’ “ So. Is Obama a liar? Or a huge liar? Thanks to Bradley J. Fikes. P.S. Will some enterprising journalist investigate whether this happened in other states? patterico.com