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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Porkulus private-sector jobs saved or created in NH?

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - The Obama administration estimated that their stimulus package would “save or create” 16,000 jobs in New Hampshire this year, and spent over $407 million to do so. As part of their participation in Porkulus, each state has to report back to the federal government the number of jobs “saved or created” using an OMB formula that takes the number of hours worked from Porkulus contracts and grants, and divides them by the number of 40-hour work weeks from 2/17/09 (when Porkulus went into effect) and 9/30/09. The state of New Hampshire has reported the results after having spent most of the funds, and the result is dramatically less than expected...

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