Posted on 11/06/2009 8:13:08 AM PST by IrishMike
In what some see as tongue-in-cheek rhetoric and others see as downright deception, the Obama administration has declared that the $787 billion stimulus bill saved or created some 650,000 jobs by the end of last month.
In what has almost become a running joke and sure fodder for a potential Saturday Night Live TV skit, the ruling czar-laced regime continues to tout imagined “air jobs” recreated in the face of the fact that the economy has lost 1.3 million jobs since the president was elected. Yet, Obama’s starry-eyed disciplines go on to say that government and private forecasters estimate that Recovery Act spending has saved and created at least 1 million jobs!
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests a much grimmer reality with figures of about 3.3 million jobs eliminated since the stimulus act passed.
Steven J. Davis, a University of Chicago economist professor, tows the administration line by saying that it may be too early to talk about job creation (so when’s the right time?). Yet he does admit that President Obama has muddied the picture by inventing a new standard to measure success.
Tony Fratto, former Bush White House spokesman, was much stronger with his take on supposed jobs saved out of thin air. He sees the job-saving farce as a “breathtaking deception” and is appalled by the “gullibility of the Washington press corps” for reporting Obama’s claims with a straight face.
As the American public continues to grow poorer, spend less, see more freedoms lost and become increasingly restless, it still is being asked to stretch its willing suspension of belief beyond all limits. One wonders just how long the reality-challenged news media can continue to drink the communion wine and eat the bitter wafers of their newest political god.
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And yet the unemployment numbers continue to rise.
Obama’s an idiot, plain and simple.
Makes sense. That’s why the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE has shot up to 10.2% (biggest in 26 yrs).
If he keeps “saving jobs” at this rate, who knows, we might get to 20% unemployment!
Only on Planet Obama which hovers in the void of his mind.
LOL!!!
Even the dumbest Democrat is beginning t
o see through that LIE.
Sanction me - OBAMA IS A LIAR!
ZERO is a complete FRAUD!
That total crap, Stimulus were not even presented as long term fixes, they were presented by Pres Obama as quick jolts, jobs NOW, before unemployment reaches 7%.
He in stated if we don't pass the stimulus stuff, unemployment may reach 8%(?) by end of the year. Now we are at 10%.
The "true" figures are already very close to 20%. I'm guessing that for the 0bama regime to report 20% unemployment, the true figure will have to be close to 50%, but the "job savior" may be aiming for that.
You may be right, but I’m tempted to believe that a 20% figure would probably have to include the under-employment numbers as well. Then again, 20% might be a low estimate if that was factored in, huh?
BTW of ANY jobs this creep created, WHAT DID IT COST YOU, as a taxpayer?
Yo, OBAMA:
Unemployment Rate Tops 10 Percent as 16 Million People Look for Jobs
The Labor Department says the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October, less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September.
WASHINGTON — Nearly 16 million people can’t find jobs, the Labor Department said Friday, pushing the unemployment rate over 10 percent for the first time since 1983.
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Counting those who have settled for part-time jobs or stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 17.5 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/06/unemployment-rate-tops-percent-million-people-look-jobs/
OBAMA IS A LIAR!
OBAMA IS A LIAR!
OBAMA IS A LIAR!
OBAMA IS A LIAR!
OBAMA IS A LIAR!
OBAMA IS A LIAR!
There, SANCTION ME TOO!
With 500K+ a week filing for initial claims, that’s 2M a people a month, and over 50% of consumers saying that finding a job is very hard and the average time to find a job is 6 months how can we only have 200K a month actually unemployed? It is not possible and unrealistic.
Hello Zero, if you want to believe that 1M jobs were saved or created, believe it.
My kids believe Santa and the tooth fairy so there is nothing wrong with a little belief in magical creations.
Three more years...
“In what has almost become a running joke and sure fodder for a potential Saturday Night Live TV skit, . . .”
Right. I’ll believe that when I see it.
“running joke”
The Kenyan is allowing himself to become an object of derision.
It’s OK with me.
Obamao math 101: 2 X Hope + 3 X Change = Poopy / Hooey - Jobs + Lies. Tune into MSM today for minute by minute breaking news of Obamao’s recovery, and add it all up to see what you get.
But you unwashed masses don’t understand!!
Job loss would have been 4 mil instead of 3.3 mil if the stimulus bill wasn’t passed. /s
There is something seriously wrong with him. He’s mentally ill. Pathological Narcissist and Delusions of Grandeur.
The "true" figures are already very close to 20%. I'm guessing that for the 0bama regime to report 20% unemployment, the true figure will have to be close to 50%, but the "job savior" may be aiming for that.
Yeah - it doesn't include those that have already exhausted their bennies and have been dropped from the rolls of the counted ...
BTW - Since they just voted to extend unemployment bennies and Obama is expected to sign ... does this mean that those currently uncounted go back on the list ???
you long-legged Mack Daddy, you lie!
To that small Kenyan village from where Obama was born: "We have found your idiot"
He thinks he’s God when, in reality, he’s Satan.
I spent $20.00 and that saved 127 quadrillion jobs.
Wow. You're good.
Yep. Unlike Obammy when I lie I really lie.
Who cares? There are another 16 million out of work, get busy!
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