Excerpt From Blog Post:Heritage Foundation
Last week the Obama administration issued a report purporting to show that the President’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan had saved or created exactly 640,329 jobs. Such a precise number for such a fuzzy concept as jobs “saved or created” immediately raised doubts about the veracity of the report in any honest American’s mind.
And since that report was issued, a once compliant press has filed story after story tearing the credibility of the Obama administration’s job creation claims to shreds. Just enter the words “stimulus”, “jobs”, and “report” in a Google News search and these are just some of the headlines you will receive:
# Stimulus Job Report Filled With Errors
# Stimulus Watch: Salary raises counted as saved jobs
# White House Tally Appears to Overstate Stimulus Jobs
# Reports Show Conflicting Number of Jobs Attributed to Stimulus Money
# Stimulus...