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Posted 11/04/09 09:56 AM LizLiz Brooklyn(or Cresco,PA!) , NY | "If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,"
....huh? |
Posted 11/04/09 10:51 AM gary ragel Woodstown, NJ | What the hell is a "portion" of a job? |
Posted 11/04/09 11:37 AM Lone Star Tex Austin, TX | You guys are forgetting about the magical job multiplier!!! I had to look up the exact quote but I saw it live when White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said it a few weeks ago.
This number will be significantly lower than the one million jobs the White House says has been created, because their computations factored in the “indirect” and “induced” jobs created as well. Gibbs said earlier this week: the state “reports themselves do not count a multiplier effect for jobs. When we obviously know that in order to pave a road, it's not just the person paving the road. Somebody has got to make the pavement. Somebody makes those orange cones, so we don't crash into the people paving the road. So you know, we feel comfortable with our estimate.” I remember asking the person next to me, "Why not just re-use the cones from the last construction job they did??" My friend said, "It's the government. They don't re-use anything" "And I wonder who makes all those cones?" "China" |
Posted 11/04/09 9:33 PM C00kieM0nster Oxnard, CA | These guys also count one job as two, when the money the created or saved that job came from two different pools of money.
Who buys this nonsense? That investment in education is really killing this country. |
Posted 11/05/09 07:03 AM JustinMurray Jacksonville, FL | Use this same calculation late January. Anyone who gets a COLA will get dumped into the "saved" category. It'll jump up to 50 million, especially when all the government employees get their COLAs. |
Posted 11/05/09 10:21 PM Bohemian Reno, NV | I would say it's confusing at best," she said. "But we followed the instructions we were given."
So they were deliberately told to lie and misreport, yet all of the other job creation figure "corrections" were just honest mistakes? "So we don't expect any corrections to this data to meaningfully impact the total 640,000 direct jobs," DeSeve said. 66.6_% error is not only striking, but a drop in nearly 10,000 from the white house figure would certainly mean something--particularly with how rife these errors are. They are intentional and deliberate liars, and don't even care to correct it when caught! |
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