The latest twist in the federal stimulus program is non-existent congressional districts in which recipients received $6.4 billion for creating or saving jobs - a total of 440 such fantasy districts in all 50 states.

Seven phantom districts in Georgia were on the list.

It's a matter of people making "silly mistakes," says an advisor to President Obama.

The fact that so many people made so many "silly mistakes" is alarming. If someone doesn't even know which congressional district that he or she is in, what does that say about the accuracy or veracity of their reports?

Answer: there are tons of mistakes in the number of jobs created or saved, as has already been widely reported. The federal government has overstated the figures by thousands with the exaggerated jobs in some cases 10 times the actual number, according to the Associated Press.

The phantom districts and the grossly overstated or misstated number of jobs are symptomatic of the failure of the $787 billion spending plan that has created about as much stimulus as a mosquito on an elephant's rump.

Despite all the "stimulus," the nation's unemployment rate soared to 10.2 percent in October from 9.8 percent in September - with the number of people out of work increasing by 558,000 to 15.7 million. Georgia's jobless rate matched the national rate.

But does the failure to create jobs faze the Obama administration and the Dems in control of Congress? Does it give them pause about continuing on the track of spending the country out of debt?

Does it stimulate Obama and the Democrat liberals in Congress to listen to the people?

No, not at all.

All year as the super-spending program zipped through Congress and the government began doling out dollars, polls of voters have consistently showed they favor - are you ready for this? - TAX CUTS rather than more government spending.

Sixty-two percent - that's almost two-thirds - of voters surveyed by Rasmussen Reports "believe tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment," the polling agency announced yesterday.

"Only 21 percent believe that additional stimulus spending is a more effective tool," Rasmussen found.

The striking thing here is that the latest results virtually mirror what voters said even as Congress debated the first stimulus package early this year: 62 percent wanted more tax cuts and less spending.

And if given a choice, 51 percent of voters in the latest poll said more jobs would be created by just canceling the rest of the stimulus program. More than 50 percent of independents feel that way.

As for the hocus-pocus job creation numbers, 58 percent of voters in the Rasmussen poll said it was unlikely that the stimulus program created or saved more than 600,000 jobs as the White House claims.

The truth is, as Rasmussen has found consistently, most Americans believe "increased government spending is bad for the economy."

Why won't Obama and the Democrats listen to the people?



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