Thursday, November 19, 2009

Obama’s Failed Stimulus: Alabama Job Numbers Don’t Add Up » The Foundry

Obama’s Failed Stimulus: Alabama Job Numbers Don’t Add Up » The Foundry

Alabama has received 3 billion dollars of stimulus aid to help “save or create” jobs and cure unemployment. Yet somehow that stimulus aid isn’t helping in curing unemployment or creating new jobs, instead it’s resulting in a state unemployment rate that’s higher than the national unemployment rate of 10.2 percent.

Here’s an illustration of the stimulus creating jobs in Alabama:

The Fort Payne Housing Author­ity this year got a $540,071 grant from the U.S. Depart­ment of Housing and Urban Development and mistak­enly reported in early Octo­ber that the stimulus grant would create 7,280 jobs, au­thority director Pamela E. Darwin said Monday…Actually, the grant to re­roof 154 apartments owned by the authority has created 14 jobs, Darwin said, adding that someone at the author­ity meant to type on a fed­eral survey that the grant would create 7,280 hours of work, not jobs.


But the Obama administration omitted that report from their October 30 statement that the stimulus had created 640,329 jobs. The sham didn’t stop there:

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