More "Jobs Saved Or Created" Troubles

PresBo's "jobs saved or created" numbers took two more hits today.

First, the White House bowed to inevitability and "voluntarily" removed 60,000 jobs from the total claimed because of obvious and glaring errors... such as $42,000 creating or saving 5,000 jobs. And keep in mind that the numbers had been scrubbed so hard that the people responsible had "dishpan hands"... and yet they missed obvious problems like THAT?
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/abc-news-exclusive-obama-administration-slashed-60000-jobs/story?id=9095621

The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted "unrealistic data," according to a document obtained by ABC News.

The Office of Management and Budget document shows that before an Oct. 30 progress report on the program the administration asked the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to remove information from 12 stimulus recipients that contained "unrealistic data," including "unrealistic job data." (Read the document here.)

One recipient – Talladega County of Alabama – claimed that 5,000 jobs had been saved or created from only $42,000 in stimulus funds.

Second, it appears as if quite a few of the "stimulus success stories" over at recovery.gov happened in Congressional Districts that don't exist.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853

Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.

Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error.

"We report what the recipients submit to us," said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the Board.

Maybe they should pay more attention to simple idiot-checks to catch obviously bad data... as a programmer, I know about the necessity of doing this.

More evidence that the "jobs created or saved" figures are hopelessly inflated... and hence useless.