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| No longer ‘jobs created’ or ‘jobs saved’ now it's 'lives touched' |
| 2010-08-20 |
| “Lives Touched” is a figure that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) uses to track the amount of people who have been positively affected by the Recovery Act funds. This total would include people who have been provided full time employment (i.e. saved and created jobs) through the Recovery Act and people who at some point have supported a project funded by the Recovery Act. In other words, the administration has stumbled upon another way to inflate their job numbers. They were already reporting on those saved or created, but will now include ‘people who at some point have supported a project. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #7 Joseph Stalin 'touched' a lot of lives too.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-08-20 22:06 |
| #6 SB, I think The Bad Touch is The Bloodhound Gang |
| Posted by: Beavis 2010-08-20 21:10 |
| #5 SB, I think The Bad Touch is The Bloodhound Gang |
| Posted by: Beavis 2010-08-20 20:54 |
| #4 Damn. I'm torn between linking "Only a Woman (Is Allowed to Touch Me There)" from Team America: World Police, and "The Bad Touch" by the Dead Milkmen..... |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2010-08-20 20:47 |
| #3 My proctologist touches me too. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-08-20 18:20 |
| #2 My bankruptcy clients want thank the U.S. government for its economic recovery programs. Without the government's help, my clients might be working at jobs rather than filing bankruptcies. What can one say, Oh Thank YOU "U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY". |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2010-08-20 17:57 |
| #1 ...well, that could include those 'negatively' touched as well. That should then include both all the present population and about two more generations yet to be born. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-08-20 17:22 |