Obama Misleads On Job Numbers
Sep 5, 2012 Political
Obama by the numbers
In the last month and particularly last night, the left has been throwing out the number 4.5 MILLION. The Obama regime and its surrogates keep telling people that 4.5 million jobs have been created by Barack Hussein Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm). This is a lie. When Obama took office there were 111 million private sector jobs in this country and in July 2012 (the last month of available numbers) the number was 111.3 million. This means that the net gain over the entire time Obama has been in office is 300,000.
The job numbers are a complicated mix of different sectors and different reports. The private sector had a net gain of 300,000 and the public sector has been losing jobs (1 million lost despite bailouts from the Obama clan). As CNN concludes:
The figure of 4.5 million jobs is accurate if you look at the most favorable period and category for the administration. But overall, there are still fewer people working now than when Obama took office at the height of the recession.
Additionally, the jobs that are trickling in are not like those we lost. Low wage jobs like food service and retail sales are being added nearly three times as fast as higher-paid occupations. [From linked article]
The truth is that the so called recovery has been the slowest on record and that people are still hurting. There are fewer people working, the work pool is shrinking, millions more are on food stamps and people continue to lose their homes while the cost of everything continues to rise.
Obama has been an abysmal failure. He told us that he could fix it in one term or he would be a one term president.
Now he wants you to vote for him again because he did not complete the job. Poor Barry needs more time.
What makes anyone think he will be able to fix it in two terms when he failed to fix it in one despite his assurances that he could?
Ask yourself; are you better off now than you were four years ago? The only people who are better off are Obama and his friends. The Obamas travel around on vacation and he plays endless rounds of golf at our expense while Obama’s friends continue to get huge sums of taxpayer money.
They are better off at our expense.
We, on the other hand, are doing much worse and will continue to sink until we fire Obama and his band of liars and thieves.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: 4.5 million, dismal recovery, job numbers, lies, Obama, private sector, public sector
Obama Fudges The Numbers
Apr 19, 2010 Political
The dirty little secret that is not so secret among many is that after all the hype and fear mongering, after the passing of the nearly one trillion dollar stimulus bill, the thing did not work. It is hard to measure because Obama has moved the goalposts a few times. He and Biden said that things would happen quickly and then not so much. We were told that unemployment would not go above 8% and then when it did we were given a bunch of excuses. One of the biggest distortions is the idea of “saved” jobs. The regime claims to have saved jobs but this is not measurable and the different tools given to employers all but guaranteed that Obama could claim a “saved” job. If the company spent one dollar on an employee and that employee did not lose his job, even if that job was NOT going to be lost anyway, it is a save.
Bogus math, bogus accounting, bogus results.
But wait, there’s more.
The most recent report from the White House is that they saved or created 2.8 million jobs. Wow! That sounds great but it is not the truth. The reality is that the regime had to trim 7 million jobs from an earlier estimate in order to claim that it saved 2.8 million.
Confused? Big Government explains:
Here’s the math:
Step 1: How many jobs does the Administration currently claim there would be, without stimulus?
129.7 million Current number of U.S. jobs
– 2.8 million Jobs currently claimed to be “created or saved”
126.9 million Jobs the Administration currently claims there would be without stimulus
Step 2: How does that compare with the number of jobs the Administration used to say there would be without stimulus?
133.9 million January 2009 projection of jobs without stimulus
– 126.9 million Current claim of jobs without stimulus
= 7 million Jobs removed from the Administration “baseline” to justify their latest stimulus job creation claims
The January information can be found here (page 5 of the document).
The Obama regime predicted that we would have an increase of almost 3.7 million jobs with the stimulus for a total of 137.5 million. At that time we were told that without the stimulus we would only have 133.9 million people employed.
Now that there are only 129.7 million people employed the Obama regime has changed the parameters. Based on Obama’s January 2009 projections, we are 7.8 million jobs behind. In order to make it look like he saved or created jobs the baseline was adjusted down. Original projection 133.9M without stimulus and now 126.9M. This is deceptive and shows without a doubt that the stimulus did not work. If it had worked we would have employment at or near the numbers he predicted and most certainly the numbers would not have to be manipulated. I don’t want to hear people whine about this being projections and that there is uncertainty involved because Obama used these numbers and said we had to act NOW.
If he had stuck to his original numbers it would have been one thing but the very fact that the projection was lowered shows that he wants to deceive us.
So let us review. Obama projected that with the stimulus we would have 137.5M people working and we only have 129.7. Using his original baseline, the one he sold the stimulus with and the one we must hold him to, he lost 7.8M jobs.
This is the only way to look at the numbers. Any other way is dishonest. Obama cannot change the baseline just to make it look like he created or “saved” jobs. Imagine what would happen to the CEOs of private businesses if they used these kind of accounting practices. Does the name Enron ring a bell? Those folks were given jail time…
So it looks like Obama has lost 7.8M jobs. The stimulus has been a failure.
Politicians do not have to lie about successful things…
As an aside, there was a big debate about the job loss chart at this very site in the comments section. Here is another take on the issue and it is something you should keep in mind when the regime tries to sell you on the lies involving job numbers. Commenter Mike, you will appreciate this.
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: big government, job loss, job numbers, lies, Obama