Thousands Of Jobs Saved And Created

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(from ABC News):

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-...tory?id=9097853

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Correction: I shouldn't have used the number "thousands" in the thread title. My error.

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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/17/6-4-...ntom-districts/

[FirefightnRick]

Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one, it has doubled the size of the House of Representatives, according to recovery.gov, which says that funds were distributed to 440 congressional districts that do not exist.

According to data retrieved from recovery.gov, nearly $6.4 billion was used to “create or save” just under 30,000 jobs in these phantom congressional districts–almost $225,000 per job. The web site operates on an $84 million budget and is tasked with monitoring the distribution of the $787 billion stimulus package passed by Congress–which, for the record, counts 435 members–in early 2009.

The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a state which has only one congressional district. In order to qualify for 99 districts, North Dakota would have to have a population of about 60 million people, almost 24 million more people than California.

The stimulus revived 8 recently retired congressional districts. Pennsylvania’s 21st District has received just under $2 million in funds. Mississippi’s 5th District and Oklahoma’s 6th received $1 million from the legislation, respectively. All three were eliminated by the 2000 census.

Many other recipients carried the banner for congressional districts that have been defunct for decades. South Carolina’s 7th took the cake, garnering more than $27 million in stimulus funds, despite being eliminated in 1930. And Virginia’s 12th District may have been written off at the start of the Civil War, but it must carry some sentimental value in Old Dominion–it received more than $2 million, according to recovery.gov.

Geez!!!!!

Rick

[UNT90]

I'm sure that the jobs were created, they just didn't ID them in the right place. Harmless error.

What will not be harmless error is when these same government minions are allowed to run your health care and get it all jacked up like they have this website. Why anyone thinks government is the answer to Health Care (or anything, for that matter) is beyond me.

[FirefightnRick]

I'm sure that the jobs were created, they just didn't ID them in the right place. Harmless error.

What will not be harmless error is when these same government minions are allowed to run your health care and get it all jacked up like they have this website. Why anyone thinks government is the answer to Health Care (or anything, for that matter) is beyond me.

I'm not so sure. A harmless error would be getting one or two districts wrong, not the countless ones listed here. How can anyone who is remotely connected to putting up that website not of the capacity to know that North Dekota doesn't have 99 districts?

Rick