Lots of Jobs "Saved" That Were Never in Danger

My daughter attends a California State University school, and is in fact one of their employees since she gets paid by them for tutoring and teaching ear training. Apparently the university system was responsible for a huge number of Obama's "saved" jobs, but further examination shows that those many of those jobs were never in danger:

Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has found.

California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas – and in 44 other states.

In a required state report to the federal government, the university system said the $268.5 million it received in stimulus funding through October allowed it to retain 26,156 employees.

That total represents more than half of CSU's statewide work force. However, university officials confirmed Thursday that half their workers were not going to be laid off without the stimulus dollars.

"This is not really a real number of people," CSU spokeswoman Clara Potes-Fellow said. "It's like a budget number."

I think I'll start claiming all of my readers as "jobs created" - the job of reading this blog everyday. It doesn't pay anything...it's sort of a budget number.