The Federal Transportation Administration is sending more than $11 million to Pierce Transportation so resident’s of Washington’s 98900 ZIP Code get nine diesel-electric buses. The project is just getting off the ground and has created 52 jobs; impressive considering there is no such Zip Code in Washington or any other state.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act pumped more than $375 million into 170 other ZIPs that do not exist, according to a national study of the Recovery.gov website compiled by Kansas Watchdog reporter Earl Glynn. The site reports the funds created 470 jobs at a cost of about $800,000 each in the phantom ZIP Codes.

The stimulus is sending $375 million in the form of grants, loans and government contracts to fund more than 200 projects in imaginary ZIP codes, like Washington’s 98900.

The politicians claiming to “save” the economy with $787 billion in stimulus cash sure are going about it strangely. Last month blogger New Mexico Watchdog found that the tax dollars were being credited for creating jobs in nonexistent Congressional districts. Other bloggers checked their states’ shares of stimulus funds and found $6.4 billion allocated to 440 “phantom” Congressional districts.

Now comes a new report of waste:

Closer examination of the latest recovery.gov report for New Mexico shows hundreds of thousands of dollars sent to and credited with creating jobs in zip codes that do not exist in New Mexico or anywhere else. Moreover, funds reported as being spent in New Mexico were given zip codes corresponding to areas in Washington and Oregon.

Read more: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/01/05/your-money-goes-to-imaginary-zip-codes/#ixzz0blQ02Cje

Closer examination of the latest recovery.gov report for New Mexico shows hundreds of thousands of dollars sent to and credited with creating jobs in zip codes that do not exist in New Mexico or anywhere else. Moreover, funds reported as being spent in New Mexico were given zip codes corresponding to areas in Washington and Oregon.

The recovery.gov site reports that $373,874 was spent in zip code 97052. Unfortunately, this expenditure created zip jobs. But $36,218 was credited with creating 5 jobs in zip code 87258. A cool hundred grand went into zip code 86705, but didn’t result in even one person finding work.

None of these zip codes exist in New Mexico, or anywhere else, for that matter.

Actually, it makes sense that a multi-million dollar database set up with Phantom Congressional districts would have fake Zip Codes. How else are all those phantom workers who got hired with stimulus money supposed to get their mail?

Steven Allen Adams reports on similar errors in West Virginia.

Phantom Districts: Democrats had their own problems with stimulus facts. The administration’s Recovery.gov Web site reported that the spending bill was funding any number of jobs in nonexistent congressional districts. “Real Jobs, Fake Districts?” Nov. 18

The Web site was so ridden with errors that Earl Devaney, the Obama-appointed watchdog in charge of monitoring stimulus spending, admitted to Congress that the White House had been too quick to take credit for saving or creating 640,000 jobs. “Recovery Stats Get Rougher,” Nov. 19 (The Congressional Budget Office later estimated that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act brought about an additional 600,000 to 1.6 million jobs than would have been the case without the law, but that doesn’t solve the problems with the data being reported on Recovery.gov.)

The administration has reported several million dollars spent in 28 of Ohio’s 18 Congressional districts. It is not clear if those additional 10 districts are to be ‘created or saved’ by administrative law or via the upcoming census. Candidates have announced for three of these Ohio districts – an immigrant, a minor, and a dead guy. I am the minor.

The proposed Article IX of the Constitution allows minors to represent districts created or saved by the administration provided they have parental consent. I believe in the conservative values of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. And, as such, believe that all money must be spent responsibly.

I am running to represent the people of Ohio’s District 21. Let me be perfectly clear. I promise a transparent administration starting with my crayon form birth certificate. My first act as Congressman will be to support State Sovereignty resolutions currently in the statehouse. I further promise return all unspent federal funding. I will work with Federal legislature to modify the universal healthcare legislation in order to make it constitutional. That means, quite simply, that I will work with Congress to allow interstate commerce (sales of insurance over state lines) and TORT reform (minimize lawsuits to medical professionals). All other aspects should be state issues; passed through our legislature and administered by our counties. Ohio voters agree that some form of safety-net is desired and I will work with members on both sides of the aisles to allow that to occur.

Bosse’s campaign got endorsements from major conservatives from across New Hampshire and the country. He has also begun a series of campaign and media stops and plans a grassroots campaign across the District…”once he figures out where it is.”

On the other hand Bosse’s boss, Charlie Arlinghaus, opposes his campaign. “We got 2,800 jobs without anyone representing the 00 District. Why do we want to mess that up?”