Remember the trillion-dollar Vote Buying Act that Congress passed with the promise that it would create about a squidillion new jobs because it was just packed full of magical stimulsy goodness?
Yeah, well, folks are reading it and finding out that the Democrats were full of crap. The AP, especially, has reported that the job creation estimates seem to have been made with a handful of darts and some randomly-chosen numbers taped to a corkboard.
Today, Michelle Malkin finds the state of Massachusetts completely mystified by the number of jobs the Democrats say the VBA will create there.
“The federal estimate of 79,000, we really don’t know what’s behind that, we just plain don’t,” Jeffrey Simon, Director of Infrastructure Investment in Massachusetts, told The Associated Press. “I’m not saying it’s not 79,000, but I just don’t have any way of knowing that,” he said.
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Massachusetts Undersecretary of Administration and Finance Jay Gonzalez also attended the Washington meeting and said other states complained that issuing job estimates undercut the administration’s vow of transparency because it was unclear where the estimates came from.Gonzalez said he was asked at one point how he might come up with a jobs estimate and pointed federal officials to a state task force report, but cautioned them the estimate was very rough and came with “qualifications all over it.”
He said he was surprised when the state was presented with the estimate of 79,000.
“We have no idea where that number came from and now we’re going to be measured against it,” Gonzalez told the AP. “They haven’t even decided yet how they are going to require that we measure new and retained jobs.”
In other words, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama made it all up. Their numbers stink because the Democrats pulled them from their panic-puckered rear ends.
We need to hold them accountable for the lies they told us. We need to give them a very clear choice: repeal their near-criminal bribery bill or retire.
Tags: Big Government, Economic Stimulus, Harry Reid, Michelle Malkin, Nancy Pelosi, President Barack Obama
