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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SAYS $40 MILLION IN STIMULUS CASH HAS CREATED 155 JOBS… IN FAKE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
What began Wednesday as a radio gimmick on Keven Cohen’s WVOC-AM radio show has turned into a full-fledged campaign by the South Carolina Republican Party to expose the federal government’s lies about the number of jobs created by federal stimulus funds.
Cohen began his show by informing listeners that he had made an important decision: He was running for Congress from South Carolina’s 45th District. Throughout the show, officials like Sen. Jim DeMint, Congressman Joe Wilson, and SCGOP Chairman Karen Floyd called in to congratulate Cohen.
But then he revealed a secret — something the SCGOP wrote about on their website Thursday.
“According to the Obama Administration’s new website at www.recovery.gov, the jobs were created in South Carolina’s 16th, 43rd, 45th, 32nd and 12th Congressional districts,” reads the SCGOP website. “There’s just one problem. The Congressional districts are fake. South Carolina only has six Congressional districts.”
The website, which was created to track stimulus spending, claims the government has spent more than $40 million to create 155 jobs in the fake Congressional districts.
Whoops.
“Upon visiting the site, you see that $6 million was used to create six jobs in South Carolina’s fake 16th Congressional District,” said Wilson. “It also shows that $3 million couldn’t even produce a single job in South Carolina’s fake 43rd district. Somehow, $1.8 million was spent for 1.4 jobs in the fake 00 district. This would be funny, but the money belongs to taxpayers, not the government.”
But it’s not too late to help out. The SCGOP is asking you to help them find District 45. You can find more information on how to do that by clicking here.
FYI, they’ve corrected the site – I hope someone backed the original up.
We wanted transparency, well we got it. Kudos to the Obama Administration for putting this information out there on the Web where people can scrutinize it and verify it.
This is a much better approach than the “old way”, which is where the government would hold the information for a long time trying to get it right, and maybe we would never see the data. If the Republicans try to make this look like incompetence or government waste they are going to end up looking like a bunch of old farts.
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It looks like they just moved the fake jobs in fake districts into real Congressional districts. The total number of fake jobs reported stays the same.
Top Congressional Districts Jobs Amount
3rd congressional district 984.9 $1,747,063,063
6th congressional district 5,506.3 $840,402,996
1st congressional district 321.1 $682,419,366
2nd congressional district 517.5 $264,010,058
5th congressional district 188.4 $142,218,483
4th congressional district 576.3 $105,627,214
Unassigned congressional district 52.4 $40,729,993
So where are these districts, seems like this story is not true.
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