We knew that it was poppycock for the White House to claim that the stim bill "saved" any jobs at all. Now, they seem to be saying that their report yesterday that trumpeted 650,000 jobs "saved or created" is pure guesswork.Eamon Javers writing at Politico: White House officials announced Friday that they had counted exactly how many jobs were created or saved by recent stimulus spending: 640,329. So how many were saved and how many created? They don't know.In a briefing with reporters, officials acknowledged they can't tell the difference between jobs "saved," and jobs "created" by the $787 billion stimulus package.They said they also can't tell the difference between private sector jobs and government jobs.And they said that they had found and corrected significant errors in the data submitted in 57,000 separate reports to the federal government by Recovery Act funding recipients."I have dishpan hands, I've been scrubbing the data so...(Read Full Post)