Were you a teenager working for $8.00 an hour in a government supported summer job that you just ditched as soon as school started?
Well congratulations, you were a big part of a magic formula for Obama's much touted jobs creation program. Forgive me kids, but this is a lot like Obama building an outhouse and claiming he has supplied the homeless with a new residence. Throwing together a bunch of $8.00 an hour summer job kids and calling it "full time equivalent" is over the top.
Reports just released by the Obama administration claim New York state has "created/saved" 40,625 jobs -- including 25,526 in New York City, according to NyPo.
BUT, the city used a formula required by the feds to count 2,882 "full-time-equivalent" as created jobs.
That number was based on 19,518 kids who took part in a SEVEN WEEK summer employment program, NyPo reports a city official as stating.
The program paid minimum wage -- less than $8 per hour -- for residents age 14 to 24 to work in local businesses, public facilities and nonprofit groups [ACORN?].
A spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg told NyPo that another chunk represented already employed teachers and other city employees who faced "possible" layoffs without the federal support.
NYC Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler said the number of stable new jobs actually created was under 300.
Aside from the fact that if this money wasn't taxed away from the people, it would have been used in other sectors of the economy, I wonder where the money Obama is claiming is being spent on jobs is really going?
Monday, November 2, 2009
Chicago Property Taxes Increase 9.6%; Obama's Property Tax Increases 1.0%
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that property taxes in Chicago have increased an average of 9.6% this year. The property taxes on President Obama's home at 5046 South Greenwood Avenue increased 1.0%. Other Chicago politicians with below average property tax increases include:
- Alexi Giannoulias (Illinois Treasurer): 1.0%
- Richard Daley (Chicago Mayor): 3.5%
- Rahm Emanuel (President Obama's Chief of Staff): 3.7%
- Lisa Madigan (Illinois Attorney General): 4.4%
- Dan Hynes (Illinois Comptroller): 4.9%
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China overdoes cloud seeding to end drought... and blankets Beijing in snow
Chinese weather scientists were embarrassingly caught out by a sudden cold snap yesterday.
They had decided to 'seed' clouds with chemicals to produce rain and ease a drought in Beijing.
The operation went exactly as they had hoped - except that temperatures dropped sharply and the precipitation fell as snow.
It kept going for half the day, blanketing the capital's streets and hitting air and road travel. It was the earliest snow in Beijing for ten years.
Winter wonderland: Holding an ambrella, a biker protects himself as he rides by after a snow storm hit Beijing
Timber! A scooter rider maneuvres to avoid snow-capped trees fallen on the road
It was helped by temperatures as low as -2C (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported.
'We won't miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from the lingering drought,' the report quoted Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, as saying at the end of last week.
Christmas scene... in China: A snow-capped pavilion
Playtime: Children make the most of the snow
Chinese meteorologists have for years been honing the technique of making rain by injecting special chemicals into clouds.
Although the technique often gets results, a drought in the north of the country has continued for over a decade.
Besides the snow, which the Beijing Evening News said was the earliest to hit the capital in 10 years, the cold weather and strong winds also delayed air travel from Beijing's Capital Airport.
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