Can anyone count?

By Jerry McConnell
Either this current government Administration has no one who knows how to tell the truth, including its leader, or it has no one with a degree even as high as a high school graduate who can do math correctly. As reported by NewsMax.com on November 19, 2009, the GAO stated on this date that there are too many errors to know how many jobs have been created.
In spite of report after report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showing that there has been no significant move to increase jobs, everyone speaking for the Administration including its leader, keeps insisting and trumpeting all sorts of lofty numbers and not only for jobs created but insidiously including a phantom new level of “jobs saved”; what is that?
To arrive at that figure do they take the total number of jobs in which people are employed, then subtract the total number of jobs which have been lost, and the balance becomes the number of “jobs saved”? To me, this represents just what this Administration thinks of the mentalities of the people of this country; to wit: “The people don’t know how to count, so they’ll believe anything. After all, they elected us didn’t they”?
Newsmax.com also reported that “the Administration Internet website Recovery.gov is working on errors that appeared to show hundreds of millions of stimulus dollars were spent in nonexistent congressional districts, as reported by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. Arizona's page, for example, showed the state's 52nd, 15th, and 86th congressional districts received hundreds of thousands of dollars in stimulus money, according to CNN affiliate KNXV. However, no such districts exist in Arizona, which has only eight congressional districts.”
One has to wonder how many jobs were reported as gained or “saved” in those non-existent congressional districts. Apparently truth and/or good records are not important as long as they show something to cloud the overall picture of Administrative ineptness.
Since when does a government put up obscenely high numbers of tax dollars to just give away to any big business that says it is hurting and losing jobs, in order to create jobs and then in a Machiavellian way take the number of jobs that are still in existence and call them “jobs saved”? Why the slight of hand, now-you-see-‘em, now-you-don’t, routine? Don’t they remember Abe Lincoln’s admonishment: “You can fool some of the people, some of the time; but you can’t fool ALL of the people, ALL of the time?” They must think that all of us have ACORNS for brains as do many of their followers.
What ever happened to good old American honesty? Oh, I forgot; this is not a good old American Administration, so we should not expect honesty; and they won’t disappoint us. Even our Congress has caught that fever and has lied so much about health care, climate voodooism, and labor union shenanigans that they can no longer recognize the truth. It has become as routine as three-day work weeks that were promised to be up to two more days during the campaign for election in 2006.
This collection of tax cheats and anti-Americans in Congress and the Administration is without question the absolute worst bunch of misfits ever assembled to run this country. If EVER there was a more compelling argument for TERM LIMITS, I never heard it. Today the percentage of millionaires, who were not even close to that prior to getting elected to Congress, is higher than it has ever been and probably exceeds businesses and banking institutions. And the greater number of these who have become excessively wealthy on government salaries, plus whatever other means, fall among the ranks of the liberal Democrats.
In 2010, we have a chance to return to the original concept of the founding fathers of honesty in government and turn these greedy profiteers out on their backsides; then elect only those who promise to support those two words that strike fear into the hearts of the liberals, - TERM LIMITS

Jerry McConnell is a long time New Hampshire resident, a Marine veteren of Iwo Jima, and a published novelist. He resides in Hampton New Hampshire