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Home Front: Politix
Good news: Obama creates 30 new jobs in one congressional district. Bad news: No such district
2009-11-18
Chicago politics, where voting is such a revered civic duty that people do it even after they're dead, cold, stiff, stuffed, boxed and buried beneath the permafrost for years, has now come to D.C. with the Obama administration.

This afternoon comes the most encouraging economic news, courtesy of our keen-eyed buddy Rick Klein over at ABC, that the Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.

That works out to only $25,380.67 spent to create each individual job.

Seems like a lot per slot, but those 30 folks must be happy to be employed again and paying taxes.

This will be a real feather in the cap of Vice President Joe Biden, who's been left behind and assigned by the ever-campaigning president to monitor the stimulus plan, its spending and effectiveness moving into the crucial midterm elections of 2010. Might the Democrats snatch that House seat?

So the people of that 15th Congressional District in staunchly Republican Arizona should be pretty happy about this.

Trouble is, there is no 15th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn't exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee. There are only eight. Period.

But the administration's much-vaunted recovery.gov website reported these jobs as being created there.

Could well be a computer glitch. Lord knows humans would never make such a dumb, misleading mistake, even in politics.

But then the trouble is that just months after grandly unveiling the recovery.gov website to showcase its economic prowess and tech-savvy, the Obama administration just spent 18 million additional taxpayer dollars to redesign the still new website.

And that site proudly also reported nonexistent new stimulus spending not just in Arizona but other states across the country.

So that looks to have worked pretty well, at least if you're counting computer designer jobs created.

Anyway, how do you think the 15th will vote next year?
Posted by:Fred

#6  Anyway, how do you think the 15th will vote next year?

I dunno, but I hope the voters of Arizona's 13th Congressional District will vote for me.
Posted by: Pappy   2009-11-18 23:23  

#5  15th Congressional District in staunchly Republican Arizona

...probably referring to Sonora. Without no stinking wall, there have probably been a good number of jobs saved or created.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-11-18 08:25  

#4  Counting be hard....but LOOK! Obama produces another hidden immunity idol.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-11-18 07:49  

#3  Audit time?
Posted by: DMFD   2009-11-18 06:52  

#2  Uh, uh, OOOOOOOOPPPSSSIIIEESSS???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-11-18 01:45  

#1  In the 57th state of Nuevo Arizona?
Posted by: ed   2009-11-18 01:41  

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