The New Math-Biden Style

So today, Vice-President, and full-time gaff-meister Joe Biden proclaimed that the stimulus package is "doing more, faster, more efficiently, and more effectively than most expected." This in spite of the fact that while the White House promised that the stimulus would keep unemployment under 8% and create more than 750,000 new jobs in the first 200 days of his presidency, more than 200 days in the unemployment rate is at 9.7% and nearly 300,000 jobs were lost in August 2009 alone, with nearly 3 million lost so far in 2009. In the face of this abysmal news, Biden took his "positive stimulus news" one step further in claiming that the economy has likely already created the 750,000 jobs he promised in the first 200 days. The caveat is that they were in the form of "saved" jobs, which conveniently isn't something that's tracked. This is about as credible as Sarah Palin's "I can see Russia from my house" foreign policy experience. Is anyone believing this tripe? Even if you're the Obama Administration, second only in authority to the Holy Trinity, you can't claim jobs that simply might or might not have been lost, into your "jobs created" numbers. If so, God only knows how many "real" jobs Reagan, Clinton, and Bush created. If this is the new math in calculating job creation, we need to go back and recalculate all the "saved" jobs of our nations past administrations to get a fair and proper perspective. Using this new calculation, its possible that President Hoover actually "created" more new jobs than FDR. Perhaps Carter wasn't the disaster we all thought he was. Perhaps he "saved" more jobs than any other president in history. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and say "Jimmy Carter 'saved' and thus created more jobs than any other president in history." I mean, anything's possible right? It's true until it's proven untrue. Welcome folks, to the new math, where a loss equals a gain and what's unprovable is fact. Say it aint so, Joe.