Crazy Math coming out of bureaucrats across our nation! Like the following lady who thinks that a 1.84% pay increase because of the tax stimulus money her "federally-funded-to-begin-with" agency received... not only saved the jobs of the 508 people who already work there... but added an additional 327 jobs! I kid you not!

AP report

STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.

The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report....

...At Southwest Georgia Community Action Council in Moultrie, Ga., director Myrtis Mulkey-Ndawula said she followed the guidelines the Obama administration provided. She said she multiplied the 508 employees by 1.84 — the percentage pay raise they received — and came up with 935 jobs saved.

"I would say it's confusing at best," she said. "But we followed the instructions we were given."...

....More than 250 other community agencies in the U.S. similarly reported saving jobs when using the money to give pay raises, to pay for training and continuing education, to extend employee work hours or to buy equipment, according to their spending reports.....

.... So.... all these "saved" jobs are government jobs that already exist and paid for by our tax dollars to begin with...

...and these people think they can actually run real-time businesses in the real world?

I'd like to see them make this kind of growth report to an actual business board of directors.

xtnyoda, shalomed