Yes we can!

President Barack Obama is capable of doing amazing things. The economic recovery program managed to save 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan.
Problem is, however, 508 people work there.

According to an article by the Associated Press about two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all… Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.

You would say the government would do their best to correct these errors. Very surprisingly the spokesman for HHS said : “If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job.”

Excuse me?

I thought we were stimulating the economy to get it out the recession and to maintain social stability by making sure as many people as possible can maintain their current job.

But apparently according to the US government we saved jobs if 2 people got a raise of 60% and 1 got redundant. This manipulation of data must stop!

According to the same article there has been hundreds of programs using nearly 323 million USD to provide pay rise and other benefits to their existing employees.

For example: The Bergen County Community Action Program in Hackensack, N.J., noted the nearly 213,000 USD it received went to cover raises for existing staff only, but it also reported saving 85 jobs.

At our first example the director said she just followed the guidelines the Obama administration provided. She said she multiplied the existing employees by 1.84 – the percentage pay raise they received – and came up with 935 jobs saved. “I would say it’s confusing at best (…) But we followed the instructions we were given.” She said.