By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--January 25, 2010
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White House advisers appearing on the Sunday talk shows gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President Obama’s Recovery Act. The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill.” Valerie Jarrett had the most conservative count, saying “the Recovery Act saved thousands and thousands of jobs,” while David Axelrod gave the bill the most credit, saying it has “created more than — or saved more than 2 million jobs.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs came in between them, saying the plan had “saved or created 1.5 million jobs.”Without the hubris they all came into town with, discrepancies could have been written off as simple rhetorical symbolism that a lot ofjobs were created. But seeing how we were told they were the best and the brightest, mistakes like these show them as the mess ups they are since their Recovery.gov site can’t give an accurate count. Obviously, the Democrats’ post-Massachusetts-special election topic will be jobs, but just because the administration says they were created, doesn’t make it so. These three stooges were just delivering spin, and our parents would have only one assessment of people who can’t get their stories straight.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight