Obama's Ongoing War on Inspectors General

[Geee]

American Thinker:




A cloud of suspicion hangs over the data Barack Obama and his team have been presenting us regarding the purported success of their own programs.

The figures presented regarding "jobs created and saved" have been contested. The new metric regarding jobs "saved" has been ridiculed as just a tactic to burnish the numbers. Analysts have looked at various expenditures and have shown in example after example that each job created is often temporary in nature, sometimes occurs overseas, and is often extremely expensive.

The figures regarding ObamaCare -- be they the costliness of the program, its effect on the deficit, or the number of uninsured -- are roundly considered suspect, if not an outright numerical analogy to snake-oil claims.

Climate change is another theological belief held by the higher-ups in this administration -- facts and figures be damned.

The problem is exacerbated when models are created to justify the ideological ends of proponents of various programs (the so-called hockey-stick model of climate change, for example). Models then have fudged numbers put in them to -- voilà! -- create the desired outcomes.

Mark Twain, who coined the phrase "lies, damn lies, and statistics," would certainly have had a great deal of raw material to use in his satirical screeds regarding politicians -- especially this bunch inspired by the mores of Cook County.

[Pepper]

Geee!

 

Let me fix that:

 

A cloud of suspicion hangs over the data Barack Obama and his team