{"id":1324,"date":"2009-11-19T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/19\/mr-obama-needs-to-check-his-math\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:35:00","slug":"mr-obama-needs-to-check-his-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/19\/mr-obama-needs-to-check-his-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Obama needs to check his math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Fox News this week, President Barack Obama dismissed the question of whether his administration has grossly exaggerated the number of jobs created by the stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a side issue,&#8221; Mr. Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>But reporting has been so inaccurate that the <a href=\"http:\/\/recovery.gov\/\">Recovery.gov<\/a> website established by the White House boasts of jobs created in House districts that don&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. David Obey (D-Wis) is a big supporter of the stimulus bill (he helped write it) but even he slammed the administration for all the inaccurate cheerleading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Credibility counts in government, and stupid mistakes like this undermine it,&#8221; Obey said in a statement. &#8220;The inaccuracies on <a href=\"http:\/\/recovery.gov\/\">Recovery.gov<\/a> that have come to light are outrageous, and the administration owes itself, the Congress and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m convinced that Americans wanted two fundamental things from Mr. Obama &#8212; more than healthcare reform, more even than jobs and national security.<\/p>\n<p>The first is competence.  The second is straight talk.  No more &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; muddle and bluster, which is what these fake job numbers amount to.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama&#8217;s team should apologize, sharpen their pencils and give us a clear-eyed picture of how (or if) the stimulus package is working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Fox News this week, President Barack Obama dismissed the question of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}