"The Obama administration’s latest tactic for selling its jobs bill is to claim it will “support” 400,000 jobs (primarily in government). Ed Morrissey notes this metric is as unmeasurable as jobs “saved or created” by Obama’s failed stimulus law, which is a good springboard for underscoring a crucial point about the 2012 campaign.
When Obama came up with the “saved or created” dodge, it wasn’t just people right of center noting it was a hustle. People like Lawrence Katz, former chief economist for the Clinton Labor Department, called it a “silly exercise” and noted the nubers were inherently inaccurate. This scam was so widely mocked that the Obama administration gave up officially counting jobs “saved or created” under the stimulus. "
[Patterico's Pontifications]
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