White House Officials Saved or Created 3 Different Bogus Stories on Job Creation
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, January 24, 2010, 4:29 PM
The White House released a report in early January claiming their failed stimulus created or saved 2 million jobs.
This was up 900,00 jobs from December’s estimates.
In the real world, the economy lost 85,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate is stuck at 10%.
In the real world, 40% of the unemployed, or 4% of the workforce, or 6.1 million people, have now been unemployed for over 27 weeks. In November this number was 5.9 million, and a year ago it was a meager 2.5 million.
Maybe that explains why today three different White House officials gave three different stories on the number of jobs “created or saved” by the Obama administration.
The Politico reported:
White House advisers appearing on the Sunday talk shows gave three different estimates of how many jobs could be credited to President Obama’s Recovery Act.
The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill.”
Valerie Jarrett had the most conservative count, saying “the Recovery Act saved thousands and thousands of jobs,” while David Axelrod gave the bill the most credit, saying it has “created more than – or saved more than 2 million jobs.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs came in between them, saying the plan had “saved or created 1.5 million jobs.”
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Daniel commented:
See? They don’t even talk to each other to get their stories straight.
Twits. Buffoons.
opaobie commented:
The only jobs they have created or saved are in the public sector and in businesses operated by their cronies….we can change that in November.
Corporal Vere commented:
Let’s see spend nearly $1,000,000,000,000 (that’s a trilion, idiot liberals) stimulus, and POOF 2,000,000 jobs.
Let me get my calculator. That comes to $500,000 per job. If the $$$$$ Trillion saved just thousands of jobs, the per job cost is higher
Mission accomplished, Jarriette!
Someone check my math. And, while you’re checking math, how does one add 2,000,000 jobs and the unemploymeny rate goes up?
Oh, the undocumented, guest workers? Who will soon (immigration reform is NEXT on the allinsky agenda) be empowered to vote themselves additional taxpayer dollars.
Robert commented:
It’s the fault of the press for not challenging their statements. They grill the Republicans and give Democrats a pass every time.
Hedgehog commented:
As Al Gore (Fat al, Everyone’s Pal) can attest, when you are running a con of epic proportion, it is tough to keep your lies straight. Obama lies with abandon. He is such a pathological liar that he can’t keep anything straight. His minions can’t keep up with him. But he has a vision. He is just having trouble making the proles understand all of the good that he is doing.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to decieve”. Obama’s life has been nothing but a deception. He is a malicious fraud, and anyone who helps him is called a co-conspiritor. Scam! Scam! Alert! Alert! Scam!
Dell commented:
The only job sector that grew – as if you couldn’t guess – was the federal government! It grew by leaps and bounds…and those are all very high paying jobs.
As for the private sector – not so much.
Most of the jobs in their “saved or created” category are good for just ONE year and then they go poof…or the cost absorbed by the State budget they’re in. Then – next year – they can dump another couple hundred billion into the pot and “save” all of those jobs again!
Sojourner commented:
‘If I had a world of my own
everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is
because everything would be
what it isn’t and contrary-wise:
what it is, it wouldn’t be
and what it wouldn’t be, it would, you see.
Alice in Wonderland
(aka BHO’s ‘useful idiots’ on jobs saved/created..)
Robert commented:
Those so-called “journalists” could have asked what the geniuses had planned going forward. I don’t think anybody in the administration has a clue, and no one is even asking the question.
TxTenther commented:
Someone, or some group, needs to make a series of commercials laying out the snow job this administration is trying to pull on the American people.
sybilll commented:
Those 10,000 jobs cut WalMart/Sam’s Club announced today certainly won’t help. Sheesh.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart25-2010jan25,0,2523635.story
bill-tb commented:
The should-a would-a could-a president should-a had his stooges coordinate talking points.
Chisum commented:
More Cowbell!
Revolting voters and the endless campaign
http://www.punditandpundette.com/2010/01/revolting-voters-and-endless-campaign.html
Karu commented:
The only jobs they created. Are the lying people of this administration.
Whats wrong with you people, don’t you believe them!!
rumcrook commented:
I dont think the white house went far enough.
I say this should at least have entertainment value.
obama himself should come out put his little finger in the corner of his mouth and say the bill saved over one huuuuundred millllion jobs,
then laugh maniacally.
Dominique commented:
That’s what happens when you aren’t telling the truth!
jojo commented:
hey that looks like a hockey stick!
Old One commented:
Anunciata d’Alessandro told us we were losing 500,000,000 jobs a month under W. during the lame duck period when unemployment was 7%.
Neo commented:
Of course they can’t .. really. Every time Obama takes on Wall Street, the market drops … and millions of 401(k) accounts see the difference, immediately. This past week, Obama drove the market down 5% in three days, quite an accomplishment. A temper tantrum in the SOTU will probably repeat that feat.
What is this man to do when his own big mouth is his worst enemy ? Every time he attempts to reabilitate himself with this faux populist talk, he costs all of us money.
Please Mr. President, do it on your own dime.