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MYTHS FOR FUN AND PROFIT

1. 640,329 jobs “saved/created” in Connecticut’s 45th Congressional district. 2. U.S. has high Infant Mortality. 3. 45,000 died because they didn’t have health insurance. 4. U.S. is unhealthy, only 37th healthiest in the world. 5. Social Security Trust Fund, Medicare trust fund. 6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi despises private insurers driven by profit. 7. Passive smoke, a killer but where are the bodies? 8. DDT, miracle that saves lives from malaria, banned. 1. 640,329 jobs created and saved? Bogus. House oversight subcommittee says $136 billion has been paid out from the $787-billion stimulus package, for jobs counted, double-counted, in nonexistent Congressional districts, including the 45th in Connecticut (we have five), 26th in Louisiana, 12th in Virginia and other imaginary places. An $890 shoe order, rated nine new jobs. An Alabama housing authority on a $540,071 project, rated 7,280 jobs but the Birmingham News only found 14. Where are the grants going? “Who knows, man, ...