Posts Tagged ‘measures’


Who estimates "jobs saved" if you can't actually measure this statistic?

You can COUNT "jobs created". But Obama has changed the definition (changed it twice actually) to be "jobs created OR saved OR funded". Now politically, this is borderline genius because you can literally make the numbers whatever you need them to be. (assuming people don’t get wise to the game…) So who makes this estimate [...]

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Has Obama been forthright with unemployment numbers?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451592762396883.html "Saved or created" has become the signature phrase for Barack Obama as he describes what his stimulus is doing for American jobs. His latest invocation came yesterday, when the president declared that the stimulus had already saved or created at least 150,000 American jobs — and announced he was ramping up some of the [...]

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