The Obama administration has taken some heat and mockery for using the nebulous and non-economic term of jobs being saved or created' by the $787 billion stimulus program.
So it's gotten rid of it.
In a little-noticed December 18, 2009 memo from Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag the Obama administration is changing the way stimulus jobs are counted.
The memo, first noted by ProPublica, says that those receiving stimulus funds no longer have to say whether a job has been saved or created.
Instead, recipients will more easily and objectively report on jobs funded with Recovery Act dollars,' Orszag wrote.
In other words, if the project is being funded with stimulus dollars even if the person worked at that company or organization before and will work the same place afterwards that's a stimulus job.
This change has not yet hit the Recovery.gov website, which lists 640,329 Jobs Created/Saved as Reported by Recipients.'
Ed Pound, the spokesman for the Recovery Board -- which is charge of Recovery.gov -- tells ABC News since OMB is not going to use jobs created or jobs saved' any more, we're not going to use it either.' He said Recovery.gov will probably use something more like jobs reported by recipients where Recovery funds were expended.'
Orszag's memo also indicates the reporting of jobs will be less frequent; recipients will now report job estimates on a quarterly, rather than cumulative, basis.'
OMB spokesman Tom Gavin said that after talking to funding recipients, good government groups, Democratic and Republican members of Congress and the Government Accountability Office, the administration decided to change its counting mechanism.
In its November report, titled Recipient Reported Jobs Data Provide Some Insight into Use of Recovery Act Funding, but Data Quality and Reporting Issues Need Attention,' GAO specifically made recommendations as to how to change the counting procedures, saying the Obama administration should consider being more explicit that jobs created or retained' are to be reported as hours worked and paid for with Recovery Act funds.'
Instead of putting the GAO report on a shelf as is typically done we took the recommendations to heart,' Gavin told ABC News. The changes are designed to make the definitions clearer, to simplify the process, and to increase the accuracy of the data that's reported.'
But Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to the chair of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board Earl Devaney saying that the new guidance counts every jobs that is funded using stimulus money even if it existed before the Recovery Act, and was not in any danger of being eliminated as created or saved.' This definition ignores the plain meanings of the words created' and saved' and makes Recovery.gov's JOBS CREATED/SAVED' label a falsehood, further eroding the confidence of the American people in their government.'
It's funny,' Gavin says. A lot of the people who are being critical of this effort to simplify the process are the same people who three months ago were complaining the process was too complex.'
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Wrong tense. Per the National Review blog item, this is a promise of intent, not a declaration of fact. "Bribe to be removed in reconciliation, [we promise! honest!]"
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Democrats are preparing to throw the race card back in the laps of Republicans as part of a counterattack designed to help save Harry Reid's political career.
First, Reid's allies plan to distribute the NAACP vote ratings of Republican senators who have scolded him. The data will be made available to editorial boards, cable programs and the blogosphere -- including votes on minimum wage, community-oriented policing, education funding and HIV/AIDS programs.
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ION TIMES ONLINE.UK > BARACK OBAMA LOCKED IN DIRTY WAR WITH THE US RIGHT.
However, IIUC ARTIC > this so-called "DIRTY WAR" IS A GOP-DEM INTER-EXTREMIST/RADICALIST WAR OR STRUGGLE FOR DOMINATION IN WASHINGTON + CONGRESS.
IOW, GOP-DEM "MODERATES" = CENTRISTS + INDEPENDENTS, ETC. NEED NOT JOIN TO FIGHT BECUZ NEITHER DEM XTREMISTS NOR GOP XTREMISTS WANT YOU.
ARTIC again > "SUBTLE ACCUSATION OF TREASON" [PDeniable]> Among other, Artic-described conspiracy theory holds that POTUS BAMMER is A DEDIC MUSLIM COMMUNIST so intent on SOCIALISM THAT HE IS DIS-INTERESTED IN FIGHTING, LET ALONE WINNING, THE GWOT AGZ THE THREAT FROM WORLDWIDE = UNIVERSAL ISLAMIST JIHADISTS-MILITANTS.
IOW, IIUC the above infers POTUS BAMMER IS COVERTLY USING THE ISLAMIST MILTERR THREAT AS A SSUBJECTIVE OR PDENIABLE COVER TO EMPOWER AND FORCE "JUSTIFIED" [anti-US?]SOCIALISM-GOVTISMM ON HIS OWN COUNTRY + AROUND THE WORLD.
The GOOD NEWS for the Bammer is that the aboesame Artic hints or alludes that POTUS BAMMER is NOT the only "traitor" within the USG, i.e. is BUT ONE TRAITOR AMONG A NUMBER/GROUP OF TRAITORS WIDIN WASHINGTON'S HALLS OF POWER???
The former Illinois governor tells Esquire: "It's such a cynical business, and most of the people in the business are full of s--- and phonies, but I was real, man and am real. This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the f---? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up."
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Didn't take long:Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Monday that it was stupid for him to tell Esquire magazine that he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and that he doesn't believe it anyway.
After much investigating and several discussions with the IRS, it appears the Democrats have played a cash-flow trick' on working Americans and are taking more out of American's paychecks across the boardall the while touting the Making Work Pay tax credit.
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But, but, but he said "only the top 2% of US taxpayers will pay more taxes... those people making over $300k....$275k....$250k....$225k....$200k....oooooh, $55k. Ok, I get it.
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Apparently, the Chicago Tribune had thoughts about FDR's New Deal that were similar. cartoon
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#4 But, but, but he said "only the top 2% of US taxpayers will pay more taxes... those people making over $300k....$275k....$250k....$225k....$200k....oooooh, $55k. Ok, I get it.
Posted by: Besoeker 2010-01-11 05:25
'soeker, if The One continues on his course, income will be expressed in Daily Apple Sales....
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Given the last treasury bond/note offering which went so poorly, and the Chinese announcement that they won't be friendly to much more US debt offering, this is the latest scam.
Essentially this is an administrative action to borrow, interest free, money from the taxpayers that doesn't have to be returned until April 2011, and it costs them zero interest. That in my case my take home is reduced by over $500 per month, money I can't inject into the wholly consumer based economy. So even though this has an enormous drag effect on any recovery, and causes pain to anyone working, they get another source of money to funds their insane socialist agenda.
Anyone who doesn't see the need for wholesale destruction of the Demokrat party at the polls also won't see that if that doesn't happen, worse things will....
[Iran Press TV Latest] The US chairman of Republican National Committee (RNC), Michael Steele, has called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to abandon his post over his past racial derogatory remarks about President Barack Obama.
The RNC leader, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," blasted Reid for describing Obama as a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one," during the 2008 presidential race.
Calling for the resignation of the Nevada Democrat, Steele also accused his party colleagues of hypocrisy on the matter.
"There is this standard where Democrats feel that they can say these things and they can apologize when it comes from the mouths of their own. But if it comes from anyone else, it is racism," Steele told the TV show.
"If (Senate Minority Leader) Mitch McConnell had said those very words that this chairman and this president would be calling for his head, and they would be labeling every Republican in the country as a racist for saying exactly what this chairman has just said," Steele continued, referring to the comments Reid had made more than a year ago.
Reid apologized for his remarks on Saturday and the US president accepted the apology in a statement, saying "I accepted Harry's apology without question because I've known him for years."
The apology comes as Reid faces a difficult re-election amid frustration from both liberals and conservatives with his leadership in the Senate.
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NO! Reid is a polarizing pr*ck and the more his face is associated with the Donks, the better the Libertarians (and even some 'Pubs) look.
Keep the heat at low-to-medium so the Donks have to devote resources to generating "um's, er's, but let me clarifys", etc... for as long as it pays, but catch and release is a good thing to do here (IMHO).....
Democrats on Sunday defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his private remarks during the 2008 campaign describing then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect."
"I think if you look at the reports as I have, it was all in the context of saying positive things about Senator Obama," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine. "It definitely was in the context of recognizing in Senator Obama a great candidate and future president."
Sen. Diane Feinstein of California said Mr. Reid should not resign, and defended his remark as just a "mistake."
"Clearly, the leader misspoke. He has also apologized. He's not only apologized to the president, I think he's apologized to all of the black leadership that he could reach," she said.
"So the president has accepted the apology, and it would seem to me that the matter should be closed."
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"I think if you look at the reports as I have, it was all in the context of saying positive things about Senator Obama," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine.
So I guess that dark skin and a negro dialect are bad things then.
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"Clearly, the leader misspoke. He has also apologized. He's not only apologized to the president, I think he's apologized to all of the black leadership that he could reach,"
As a southerner who resides on former cotton fields...and has many white friends, I am deeply offended. He should be depot'ed.
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...no, he's finally understanding that it had nothing to do with manufactured faked moral outrage but a pure power game. He should have said that repeatedly and loud and pointed out that [as with the senior Senator from WV] it would all be rather blatantly hypocritical if it wasn't just about power by any means.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The US chairman of Republican National Committee (RNC), Michael Steele, has called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to abandon his post over his past racial derogatory remarks about President Barack Obama. 
Democrats on Sunday defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his private remarks during the 2008 campaign describing then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect." 
