Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Great Exaggerator

The Globe talks about Deval Patrick as an exaggerator with budget numbers.

Check it out here.

"On the jobs front, let's both advance human healing and add another 250,000 jobs over the next decade by passing the life sciences bill next month," Patrick told the Legislature.

My Globe colleague, Todd Wallack, was the first to raise questions about Patrick's claim that his $1 billion life-sciences initiative, which stalled last year in the Legislature, could produce 250,000 jobs in a decade. That, Wallack reported, would be twice as many jobs as the state added from all sources over the past decade. The life-sciences sector currently employs 60,000 to 75,000 people in Massachusetts.