News of the misuses and abuses of the $787 billion "stimulus" keeps rolling in, and here is one that is as outrageous as any we've seen.

A nonprofit organization in Georgia said stimulus funds "saved" more than 900 jobs there. That must have been an incredible feat, because as it turned out, only about 500 people work at the agency.

In fact, The Associated Press uncovered more than 9,000 supposedly "saved" jobs under the federal Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services that were not saved at all.

So why were they reported saved? Well, the Georgia organization and the federal agency counted stimulus-funded pay increases as "saved jobs." The Georgia nonprofit, saying it was acting according to federal guidelines, bizarrely multiplied its number of workers by the nearly 2 percent raises provided by the stimulus. That's how it came up with its supposed figure of 900 "saved" jobs at a facility that employs only 500 people. At the HHS office, a spokesman told the AP, "If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job."

That makes no sense.

Neither does the fact that lots of Head Start programs nationwide counted every single raise as a "saved" job. A Head Start defender told the AP that cost-of-living adjustments for workers "may not be viewed traditionally as a job saved, but one could interpret it that, by providing COLA, you're retaining staff."

Worse still, "More than 250 other community agencies in the U.S. similarly reported saving jobs when using the money to give pay raises, to pay for training and continuing education, to extend employee work hours or to buy equipment ...," the AP noted.

So "stimulus" funds that were supposed to get the unemployed working are being used for pay raises, continuing education and equipment purchases. Now we know why $55 billion of the stimulus is expected to be lost to waste, fraud and abuse -- and why many question the claims about the number of stimulus jobs.