Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg is raising his voice about the federal stimulus package.
He said that President Obama argued that without the $787 billion deal unemployment may hit 8%, but it recently just passed the 10% in nationwide numbers.
"The government spent a trillion dollars to save and create jobs and the opposite has happened” the Republican said. “Millions more Americans lost their jobs and now they want to fix health care like they fixed the economy."
Rehberg also criticized the government's $18 million www.recovery.com web site which is designed to monitor stimulus spending and new jobs created across the country.
But the site highlights approved projects in congressional districts that don't exist. For example, it shows Montana has 13 districts when there's only one.
A spokesman for the web site blames human error for the mistakes, but the Obama administration is standing behind its claim stimulus money created or saved more than 640-thousand jobs nationwide.
(from November 17, 2009) The criticism is growing surrounding President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package, and exactly where the money is going.
The White House spent $18 million on the web site www.recovery.gov to monitor the spending, but the problem is that the site claims the stimulus created scores of jobs and spent millions of dollars in Congressional districts that don't exist. For example, it shows Montana has 13 districts, when there's only one.
"The federal government spent $372,000 to create one single job in Montana's non-existent 8th Congressional district” Republican Representative Denny Rehberg said. “Our imaginary 16th District did better with 32 ½ jobs. Only a bureaucrat would count half a job in a district that doesn't exist."
A spokesman for the web site blames human error for the mistakes, but the Obama administration stands behind its claim stimulus money created or saved more than 640,000 jobs nationwide.
