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Fun with imaginary numbers, stimulus-style
Posted Nov 17, 2009 by Tom Jackson
Updated Nov 17, 2009 at 06:18 PM
From the alert staffers in the Washington office of U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, this lively update:
After reading the wildly unsubstantiated claims President Obama is making about the success of the stimulus, U.S. Congresswoman Brown-Waite (R-Brooksville) went to Recovery.gov to see for herself how a trillion dollars is being spent:
“At home in my district, my constituents are crying out, ‘Where are the jobs, where are the jobs?’ I wanted to see for myself where the trillion dollars in taxpayer money had gone. I visited the White House’s website dedicated to the stimulus bill, Recovery.gov. I was alarmed to see that Democrats have spent $3,582,587 to create 5 jobs in Florida’s 86th congressional district. In the fighting 53rd they spent $460,000 of your taxpayer dollars to create zero jobs.[”]
Of course, there is no 86th congressional district in Florida, nor even a 53rd. The Sunshine State’s congressional delegation tops out a mere 25. This sort of sloppiness brings into question the veracity of the reports from the districts that actually do exist. Or, as Brown-Waite says:
“The truthiness of the President’s claims is mind boggling.
“How can we expect the administration to run Stimulus when they can’t even run a website?”
Or nationalized health care? Or cap-and-tax?
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