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This just in. Massachusetts NOT shrinking.

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The “jobs saved or created” metric was always dubious, but now it’s certain that the reported numbers are totally bogus.  That’s the bad news.

The good news is that Massachusetts has miraculously increased the number of congressional districts from 10 to 16, adding the 11th, 14th, 20th, 25th, 86th, and Robert Parrish’s house, the 00th, at least according to Recovery.gov.  

Seriously, if the Obama administration cannot get the number of districts straight, how can anyone believe any of the “jobs saved” claims?  LMAO.

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  2. From the ABC news report:

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    Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error.

    “We report what the recipients submit to us,” said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the Board.

    Pound told ABC News the board receives declarations from the recipients – state governments, federal agencies and universities – of stimulus money about what program is being funded.

    “Some recipients clearly don’t know what congressional district they live in, so they appear to be just throwing in any number. We expected all along that recipients would make mistakes on their congressional districts, on jobs numbers, on award amounts, and so on. Human beings make mistakes,” Pound said.

  3. when were the totals ever in question?  It’s was obvious that the drill downs had the problem be it software or data.  Now it looks like there was a data problem and a few incidents in MA.  Transparency is not easy….but I’ll take it any day.  Better than we had under the previous administration where billions were just unaccounted for.

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