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Maj. in Miss: Ghost of Districts past - MS-5 has 30 jobs saved by stimulus

Maj. in Miss: Ghost of Districts past - MS-5 has 30 jobs saved by stimulus

And by MS-05 I mean Mississippi’s Fifth Congressional District, the district that disappeared almost a decade ago. Miraculously, the $787 billion stimulus has created or “saved” 30 jobs in that extinct district at the cost of more than $984,000 (which is relatively cheap at about $32,000 a job). This information is courtesy of WatchDog.org, who reviewed recovery.org to find the government reported spending $6.4 billion on 440 congressional districts that do not exist.

More interesting news at Majority in Mississippi
11/17/9

Posted November 17, 2009 - 9:29 am

9 Comments:

I guess that goes under the heading of “Change That You Can’t Remember”

Posted by Alan on 11-17-2009 at 10:39 AM [link]

The website that these reports come from is reported to cost us the taxpayer 18 million dollars. You would think with that much money they could at least provide a template that listed the districts rather than just collect e-mails.

Posted by Contract with America on 11-17-2009 at 12:39 PM [link]

Mississippi’s Fifth Congressional District, the district that disappeared almost a decade ago.

Both hilarious and sad at the same time. idiots.

Posted by Just Me on 11-17-2009 at 02:38 PM [link]

The Stimulus is not limited by time and space, man! This is the Obama administration! Get with the program!

Posted by David Sanders on 11-17-2009 at 03:10 PM [link]

$6.4 billion on 440 congressional districts that do not exist.

[Whitehouse] It was a just a typographical error [/Whitehouse]

Posted by JDBerry on 11-17-2009 at 03:53 PM [link]

Stimulus saves nine out of every five jobs

President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.

The Georgia nonprofit’s inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government’s latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an “extensive review” to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.

Posted by JDBerry on 11-17-2009 at 04:47 PM [link]

Do not laugh at the job figures from the 5th district. Those jobs are real. I know because Rod Serling told me so.

Posted by reddneck on 11-17-2009 at 10:25 PM [link]

Yall are killing me! hahahahahahahahha

Posted by Just Me on 11-18-2009 at 10:35 AM [link]

cartoonist “The Stimulus Hoax” too funny. Don’t know how to make this link shorter, sorry. But made me crack up this morning.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/NateBeelerToons/The-Stimulus-Hoax-70436277.html

Posted by Just Me on 11-19-2009 at 11:07 AM [link]

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