To Prop Up Obama’s Failed Economic Policies, Oregon Politicians Count Jobs Lasting Less Than 1 Work Week

SPIN METER: ‘Help Wanted’ counting stimulus jobs

By RYAN KOST
Associated Press Writer – via Breitbart

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.

But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data. By the state’s accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.

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“At best you can say it’s ambiguous, at worst you can say it’s intentional deception,” said economist Bruce Blonigen of the University of Oregon.

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That’s puting it mildly!

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