…Said Issa: “The new guidance counts every job that is funded using stimulus money — even if it existed before the Recovery Act, and was not in any danger of being eliminated — as ‘created or saved.’ This definition ignores the plain meanings of the words ‘created’ and ’saved,’ and makes Recovery.gov’s ‘JOBS CREATED/SAVED’ label a falsehood, further eroding the confidence of the American people in their government.”
Some of the president’s closest economic advisers also made some startling claims in connection with the new Economic Report. Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Christina Romer, for example, said the economic stimulus program saved millions of Americans from “destitution.” The dictionary defines destitution as “utter poverty” and the “lack of the means of subsistence.” Who could have imagined that wasting money on fake jobs would yield such miraculous results?
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