Joe Biden Claims the Stimulus Bill Saved 150,000 Jobs, Where is the Proof?

  Joe Biden is now claiming that the stimulus plan has already saved/created 150,000 jobs. He made this claim in a press release when his office released a progress report on the stimulus bill but there is no proof of his claim in the report that he filed. It seems to me that if this claim was true that it would have been included in the report.

  When Joe Biden was asked where the numbers came from he sited another report that was released earlier but that report did not support Joe Biden’s jobs claim either. As a matter of fact the report that his office sited as proof said that there will not be any numbers available until August.

  So where did Joe Bide get the numbers?

Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst with the libertarian Cato Institute, told CNSNews.com that the numbers were derived from a formula that would tell the administration “whatever it wanted to hear.”

“Where do you even start with this nonsense?” DeHaven asked. “This is just a political number, but I’ll leave it to him (Biden) to proclaim it a gospel truth.”
 
DeHaven added: “They try to make this look scientific and it’s not. It’s just politics. There’s not a lot of science to it, although they dress it up that way.”

  He made the numbers up. When the administration changed their projections from “jobs created” to “jobs created or saved” this is where my initial skepticism was multiplied.

  Other than government jobs that are created how are we supposed to quantify how many jobs were created or saved? It can not be done. Even if there was a way to quantify jobs created there is no way in hell that anyone can say without a question of a doubt how many jobs the stimulus bill saved. That is why the administration added that language into the argument. The administration needed an “out” if Americans continued to lose jobs after the stimulus bill went into effect and the “jobs saved” argument provided that “out.”

   The administration can now tell us how many jobs were saved even as more Americans lose jobs and there is no way to prove or disprove the claim.

  We have seen the first example of this with the vice president. He just threw a number out there and he is hoping that it sticks, after all who can prove that it isn’t true?