Here’s the link to a map of Stimulus Jobs Inflated by State.
In nationwide totals, this private tracking effort has uncovered reports amounting to 90,489 bogus stimulus jobs — and still counting.
What’s Wisconsin show?
1. C3T Construction Co. in Milwaukee claimed to have created 24 jobs on projects that have not begun and for which it has received no money.
2. Statewide, 17 different Head Start programs gave raises to their employees and counted them as new or saved jobs.
3. In Milwaukee, United Migrant Opportunity Services claimed to have created 113 jobs with just $18,000.
4. In Fort McCoy, JRC Inc. reported creating 10 jobs on a project that has not started and which has still received no stimulus money.
5. In Madison, housing complexes, normally covered under Section 8, were instead counted as stimulus recipients this year and claimed to have saved 49 jobs. The Obama administration has said that such contracts will no longer be counted in stimulus job numbers in the future.
What?!!?? That’s it? What are the Badger State’s politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and non-governmental agencies doing with their time? Look at the map — in big states, politicians are lying like crazy to impress the Administration and Congress, and get more money. The least our leaders could do is to fabricate creatively like other places.
Yet, perhaps, I’m not being fair. After all, the absence of entries may indicate that Wisconsin’s politicians are more clever than the rest of America’s politicians, and are harder to expose as frauds, liars, and cheats. Years of bipartisan corruption across Wisconsin, in Madison, Milwaukee, and in counties big and small, may finally be paying off.
Shrewd, very shrewd.