Obama’s Potemkin Village
October 30, 2009How does the White House count jobs saved or created? Not surprisingly, it is using some pretty creative reasoning. Let’s say you are XYZ Corporation and you have 500 employees. Let’s say you received stimulus money from the government to the tune of $5,000. Let’s say you used your stimulus check to make payroll on the week of June 14. Your payroll is $400,000 a week so you just tossed the stimulus check into that pool. Since it went in the pool, every employee received $10 worth of stimulus.
If even a single dollar is used for a individual employee’s salary, the employee’s job is considered by the Obama Administration to be “saved or created.” So in this case, the $5,000 stimulus to XYZ Corporation would be logged by the administration as having saved or created 500 jobs.
Of course there is no way that a $5,000 check can save 500 jobs in a company with a $400,000 a week payroll, is there? Nope. But the truth doesn’t matter because Obama believes that Americans are Hopenchange addled morons. He is certainly correct about the MSM.
JCT :
Date: October 31, 2009
Like or not, the use of Potemkin villages has been successful in the past.
With the general level of education, enlightenment and awareness of the American people, I would expect any “Potemkin approach” to be relatively successful. The relatively refers to successful in leading opinion, not successful in actually getting a problem solved.
Turns out that the ULTIMATE “Potemkin approach” is the legislative techniques of the US Congress.