Chief Stimulus Watchdog Disowns Administration’s Jobs “Saved or Created” Numbers |
Thursday, 19 November 2009 11:43 |
Click HERE to View the Issa-Devaney Exchange Transcript of Issa-Devaney Exchange:
Issa: “Mr. Devaney, Secretary LaHood said, ‘We know for a fact that Recovery Act investments have created or saved more than 640,000 direct jobs so far. These are real, identifiable jobs directly funded by the Act.’ Can you support that?”
Devaney: “I think, sir, it may be a fact that that’s what’s on my website, but that may not be the correct number.”
Issa: “To characterize, he may be a little overzealous in saying real, identifiable, direct and, in fact, it’s just a damn estimate, isn’t it.”
Devaney: “That’s what the recipients reported.”
Issa: “I was reminded, by the way, that when a fish hits a wall he says damn. That’s what we’re talking about here. So going through a couple of slides, the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, on 10/30/2009, says, ‘The direct jobs in that is 640,329, referring to Recovery.gov.’ Same day, VP Biden’s chief economic adviser, ‘Those jobs accumulate to 650,000 jobs saved or created so far.’ Same day, VP Joe Biden, ‘When the data is posted later today, it will show that we have created or saved 640, 239 jobs from contracting authority with the federal government.’ Last slide, CNN Headline, “Stimulus Creates 640,000 jobs.’
Pull up the propaganda again.
Is there any reason when you don’t know what the number really is that it’s just an estimate that, in fact, there’s about 60,000 jobs you pulled off and you didn’t even pull off the 26,000 jobs the University of California says it claims, which would be ½ of its employees would be saved from this act and they don’t have a net new hiring so you had to save existing employees, half of them, isn’t that just propaganda, isn’t it either misleading or designed to serve a political agenda when, in fact, it can’t be substantiated. It is not true. It is either mislead or designed to say we’re doing a great job when, in fact, we don’t know?
Devaney: “I like that statement.”
Issa: “Thank you Mr. Devaney.”
CNN’s Kate Bolduan Reports on Recovery.Gov Hearing
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