Posted on 12/22/2009 7:37:17 AM PST by SmithL
Under fire for mismanaging its vehicle fleet, Caltrans was rapped anew on Monday for grossly overstating the number of jobs it created or preserved with federal stimulus money.
The criticism came from state Auditor Elaine Howle, who revealed the department's inflated numbers in a report.
In October, Caltrans told the federal government that it created or preserved 1,590 jobs with $26.7 million the department received earlier this year under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The stimulus bill requires all recipients of federal money to file quarterly job updates, reporting numbers of jobs created or saved by projects.
Howle's auditors found that Caltrans' jobs numbers were way off the mark.
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So, our communists at work again. All they know to do is lie and distort to save their collective as@ from just how really bad the unemployment is. When any organization or government entity lies, I tie them in directly with King Obama’s mass machine and the communists. And the tax dollars will somehow magically disappear. No damn excuse for this.
It’s gonna be sooooooo schadenfreude watching California declare bankruptcy.
“Progessive”? Certainly. Progressing right into the sewer.
Real story: Another $27,000,000 down the toilet for little or nothing.
It seems that government can lie to government and its okay. Think I will remember this next April 15.
I’m shocked, just shocked, they would do this.
‘new number will be generated in January’.
The deception rolls on. WHERE’S THE MONEY?
Liberals only know how to lie not how to perform to accomplish needed tasks.
How many of the other states have lied about their so called job increases in relationship to the stimulus money they received.
Caltrans has lost a lawsuit that is costing it $1.1 million.
Here is more vehicle abuse by Caltrans:
http://www.sbcag.com/mapofshameSBCity-3/personal-use-of-state-vehicles
Also, years ago Caltrans bought Ford Taurus models insisting to save about $40 per car by removing the electric locks. However that caused the batteries to fail and they had to install $400 solar chargers on the dash boards.
See also:
http://www.carsarebasic.org/
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