Pelosi Claims House Dems Are Focused on Jobs But Unemployment Has Doubled Under Her Watch
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, January 25, 2010, 5:24 AM
Worst. Speaker. Ever.
The US umemployment rate has more than doubled since democrats took over the House in 2007. When Nancy Pelosi became Speaker the unemployment rate was 4.6%. Since then it has spiked to 10.0%.
Pelosi claims her failed stimulus package has actually created or saved 2 million jobs.
CNS News reported, via Free Republic:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the issue of job creation has “permeated” the efforts of congressional Democrats over the past year. Pelosi’s statement stands in stark contrast to a bleak jobs year that saw unemployment rise to over 10 percent.
“The jobs issue has permeated everything, [every] major initiative that we have,” Pelosi said at her weekly press briefing Thursday. The speaker outlined the various proposals that she said had pulled the economy “back from the brink” over the past year.
“With the recovery package, we not only created jobs – about 2 million saved or created with more being rolled out – but pulled us back from the brink of even deeper recession. In his [President Obama’s] budget, which we passed one hundred days after his swearing-in, he had a blueprint for how we go into the future, create jobs, stabilize the economy [and] do so as we reduce the deficit – [it’s] very central to everything we do – reduce the deficit.
She forgot to blame Bush.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 57 Comments
Militant Conservative commented:
Remember folks, the Dem’s took over in 06 (both houses of congress). Then the zero took over in 09′.
HMMMMMM Republicans in minority and unable to stop Dem’s plans for America, how is that HOAX AND CHAINS woking out for ya. Powder is dry.
J commented:
After being in power for THREE YEARS can’t we now say…..if that is the best you can do, your fired?
Corporal Vere commented:
“Suppose you were an idiot. And, suppose you were a congressman. But, I repeat myself.” – Twain
Bill MItchell commented:
Is she seriously living in “Opposite-Land”?
Their priorities are:
1. To create jobs – they have lost millions of jobs.
2. They have created or saved 2 million jobs – everyone KNOWS this is complete BS but they just keep saying it.
3. To reduce the deficit – the deficit has EXPLODED under the Dem watch.
So she is claiming that they are successful in all their priorities when anyone simply looking at the facts can see that the exact opposite is true?
Sorry, but how the f* did these people end up in charge of our country? Either they are completely amoral liars or utterly insane. Not sure which is worse.
LytnUp commented:
Perhaps they should clarify whose jobs they are going to focus on.
Finncrisp commented:
Memo to Team Pelosi:
Your stumulus didn’t stimulate. your spending isn’t saving us, your cap and tax doesn’t change climate, your payoffs to unions doesn’t unify, and your lies aren’t true!
Cordially,
Finncrisp
avery commented:
Green jobs is money flush down the toilet,it going in their pocket.
jomojava commented:
Their “focus on jobs” claim is accurate.
They are focused on destroying as many private sector jobs as possible.
And to this point, they have achieved remarkable success.
Robert commented:
From the CNS article (at the end…)
Despite Pelosi’s claim that stimulus spending had “saved or created” 2 million jobs, BLS figures show that, in fact, the number of unemployed Americans did not shrink at all during 2009, nor did the number of employed Americans grow. According to BLS, the number of employed Americans in January 2009 was 142.2 million and the number of unemployed Americans was 11.9 million.
By March, the number of employed people had fallen to 140.8 million while the number of unemployed had risen to 13.3 million. By December – despite tens of billions in stimulus spending – the number of employed Americans had fallen to 137.8 million while the number of unemployed Americans had risen to 15.3 million.
A total of 3.9 million people lost their jobs in 2009, according to BLS.
(BLS – Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor)
Lynn commented:
Dems created the problem, now blame banks, consumers, small business, etc; for the problem. Dems caused the meltdown and they can’t walk that one back. Period!
Scott commented:
Thanks for the article. It really is easy to sometimes forget how good the job numbers for quite a while during the Bush administration.
Lynn commented:
In January 2009 OH unemployment was at 6.9%, January 2010 10.9%.
Dems should have stayed out of the business of banking and building. They are the direct cause of this crash. Entitlement was so much more important then the economical health of the US. Total asshats!!
jim from cleveland commented:
She’s not only a pathological liar; she’s pathologically stupid.
DougO commented:
“In his [President Obama’s] budget, ” Did anybody else get the feeling that, in her head, that “his” is a Capital “His”?
Agent 99 commented:
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jan2010/pi2010018_130737.htm “”Retiree Annuities May Be Promoted by Obama Aides
The government is looking at ways to promote the conversion of 401(k)s and IRAs into steady payment streams after a significant decline in plan balances “” This is a new plan for the Gov’t to ‘take’ our IRAs and 401ks and invest them for us so we just won’t have to worry about Market Fluctations.
Robert commented:
“do so as we reduce the deficit – [it’s] very central to everything we do – reduce the deficit.”
Even for a politician that is the stupidest lyingest thing I have ever heard.
AuntieMadder commented:
Liar, liar, pants on fire. One day Pelosi will spontaneously combust.
Ladue Pundit commented:
4 million jobs lost since O took over.
Deficit tripled.
Housing market in shambles.
Terrorist attacks on our soil.
And this kook, put in by some San Francisco wackos, tells us they pulled it back from the brink.
The Democrats pushed us OVER the brink, and blamed it on us.
xqqme commented:
Remind me what good Sherrod Brown (D) has done since winning OH senate seat in 2006?
The unemployment rate for Ohio was 5.9% in Dec. 2006. When Obama visited Elyria this past week our unemployment rate was 10.9%.
When Democrats cry ‘Jobs, jobs, jobs’, you’d better run, run, run….
The President Proposes
The Congress Disposes….
Joanne commented:
The woman is a liar – through and through. Those democrats will say anything, no matter how far from the truth and no matter how obviously far from the truth.