Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist

[Patranus]

Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853

The most reassuring statement form the article

"We report what the recipients submit to us," said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the Board.

So the government doesn't even know where and to whom it is handing out all of this money.

But there is some more good news...

The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well.
$68.3 million spent and 72.2 million spent in the 1st congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
$1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands.
$47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico's 99th congressional district.

And to cap it off

The recovery.gov Web site was established as part of the stimulus bill "to foster greater accountability and transparency" in the use of the money spent through the stimulus program. The site is a well-funded enterprise; the General Services Administration updated it earlier this year with an $18 million grant.

So the web site the government paid 18 million dollars for as part of said stimulus doesn't even work.

Where can I get sum o dat Obama money? Maybe I can just raid Obama's stash...

 

[Sinsear]

 

[Pneumothorax]

LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!! :biggrin:

 

[JSt0rm]

lol that gif is funny

 

[JEDIYoda]

lol that Petranus is funny

Corrected for accuracy!!

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Wow...those are some good paying jobs! Thanks President Obama...you da man!!!

 

[0marTheZealot]

lmao. I love photoshop.

 

[werepossum]

Silly rabbit, the Arizona 15th district is ACORN.

 

[OCGuy]

Holy crap we're screwed.

And LOL @ that gif. That pretty much sums up Obowma's presidency so far.

 

[nageov3t]

Corrected for accuracy!!

if you can't laugh at that gif, you need to take a break from P&N ^_^

 

[OutHouse]

totally amazing not to mention disgusting.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Apparently, I need to establish myself as a district.

 

[ayabe]

Well I guess that would matter, except:

"All data in the Recipient Reported Data section, as well as the data on the blue maps, comes directly from recipients' reports submitted to FederalReporting.gov--the government website created to collect all the recipient data. Recovery.gov has not changed or corrected the reported data."

http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecipientReportedData/Pages/RRData.aspx

Dey took our jeeoobbbss!! Like moths to a flame, the hooples come a hooplin'.

 

[shira]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853

The most reassuring statement form the article


So the government doesn't even know where and to whom it is handing out all of this money.

But there is some more good news...


And to cap it off


So the web site the government paid 18 million dollars for as part of said stimulus doesn't even work.

Where can I get sum o dat Obama money? Maybe I can just raid Obama's stash...

I'm sure you think this all means something. But maybe you should go to the source article:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-magically-appearing-stimulus-jobs.html

These figures seem more likely to be data-entry errors than evidence of fraud or corruption.

 

[Modelworks]

My personal favorite is the city where they created 100+ new city jobs when the city only employs 20 people. oops !

 

[Robor]

:awe: :biggrin: :awe:

Now THAT is funny!!!

You're still a douche PaTrollUs.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Well I guess that would matter, except:

"All data in the Recipient Reported Data section, as well as the data on the blue maps, comes directly from recipients' reports submitted to FederalReporting.gov--the government website created to collect all the recipient data. Recovery.gov has not changed or corrected the reported data."

http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecipientReportedData/Pages/RRData.aspx

Dey took our jeeoobbbss!! Like moths to a flame, the hooples come a hooplin'.

Good to see that $18 million grant going to work.

 

[Patranus]

The people who are here defending this is laughable.

When you apply for a grant you (usually) have to fill out exactly what you are going to do with the money BEFORE it is given to you. The fact that the government doesn't even know who they are giving money to should concern everyone.

 

[JEDIYoda]

if you can't laugh at that gif, you need to take a break from P&N ^_^

The gif is NOT funny..maybe you think your something you certainly are not....

 

[JEDIYoda]

The people who are here defending this is laughable.

When you apply for a grant you (usually) have to fill out exactly what you are going to do with the money BEFORE it is given to you. The fact that the government doesn't even know who they are giving money to should concern everyone.

as usual you are totally wrong and you should mbge embarrased...yet being the village idiot you probably can`t help yourself...

Just because the infromation was inputted incorrectly does not mean the government does not have harde copies of where the money went to...but you probably are getting your nut off being goofy so go for it....

[q]These figures seem more likely to be data-entry errors than evidence of fraud or corruption.

But for an administration that’s prided itself on scrupulous accounting surrounding everything connected to the stimulus, mistakes like these contribute to suspicions that counting jobs “saved or created” is more art than science.[/q]

The source-- http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-magically-appearing-stimulus-jobs.html

 

[shira]

The people who are here defending this is laughable.

When you apply for a grant you (usually) have to fill out exactly what you are going to do with the money BEFORE it is given to you. The fact that the government doesn't even know who they are giving money to should concern everyone.

Interesting that you assume that money has actually gone to non-existent places, rather than realize that the money almost certainly went to legitimate places, but that (as indicated in my previous post) the report has errors in it.

Here is, yet again, strong evidence that you have serious mental problems - the way you leap for the fairly dust. Once again, you are the fool.

 

[Patranus]

as usual you are totally wrong and you should mbge embarrased...yet being the village idiot you probably can`t help yourself...

Just because the infromation was inputted incorrectly does not mean the government does not have harde copies of where the money went to...but you probably are getting your nut off being goofy so go for it....

[q]These figures seem more likely to be data-entry errors than evidence of fraud or corruption.

But for an administration that’s prided itself on scrupulous accounting surrounding everything connected to the stimulus, mistakes like these contribute to suspicions that counting jobs “saved or created” is more art than science.[/q]

The source-- http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/11/the-magically-appearing-stimulus-jobs.html

18 million dollars for a web site that cannot check if a district is in a state?

I can code a PHP application that checks addresses against zipcodes/states/cities in under an hour.

No matter what angle you take, this is bad.

Again, you fail.

 

[her209]

Is the OP implying that the money is gone? Unaccounted for? Stolen perhaps?

 

[bfdd]

You guys talking about this is probably a data entry error are laughable. 18 Million dollars could design a system that wouldn't have flaws like "$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Island" It really isn't that hard to figure out where a place is given any information about it. Not to mention there IS no congressional districts in the U.S Virgin Islands so what the fuck? Why would that even be considered? Someone fucked up Virginia? No....

 

[LunarRay]

They keep piling on all this analysis stuff... what did 787 billion do? ... Everyone knows it went to folks in the form of tax credits and checks and stuff... heck.. next you'll be asking if they found that 2.1 trillion that Rumsfeld said they couldn't find back in '01... It's just money... it is all spent now. You can't prove it didn't create jobs... now can you?