Unnamed Vermont official questions ARRA job estimate

A question by an unnamed Vermont state official at an ARRA implementation conference has Earl Devaney* Chairman of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board questioning job estimates. Devaney said: “This whole thing has got me very nervous.”

*(Devaney was the former inspector general at the Interior Department, he helped unearth the Jack Abramoff scandal)

According to a press pool report from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Implementation Conference, an unnamed state official from Vermont asked if state job numbers on the recovery.gov Web site were made up.

Devaney, according to the pool report, pointed to the difficulty of defining a saved or created job.
“We need to all be playing off the same sheet of music,” Devaney went on. “If I’m going to be held accountable for this Web site, and there’s a graph in there that talks about jobs created or saved, it’s going to be as accurate as I can get it.”
Devaney, according to the pool report, pointed to the difficulty of defining a saved or created job.

And if anyone knows who the Green Mountain stater who asked the original question was,we would love to know .

http://www.propublica.org/ion/stimulus/item/stimulus-oversight-chief-questions-jobs-numbers-too-316
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