Obama quietly abandons magical “jobs created or saved” metric for even phonier metric

"The memo, first noted by ProPublica, says that those receiving stimulus funds no longer have to say whether a job has been saved or created.

"'Instead, recipients will more easily and objectively report on jobs funded with Recovery Act dollars,' Orszag wrote.

"In other words, if the project is being funded with stimulus dollars – even if the person worked at that company or organization before and will work the same place afterwards – that’s a stimulus job."