Media Celebrate 'Good' September Jobs Number, But Obama's Still 6.2 Million Short of Promise

newsbusters ^ | 10/7/2011 | By Julia A. Seymour

[tobyhill]

The media said there was "good" but "not great" news on the unemployment front in September with 103,000 jobs added, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate remained 9.1 percent.

But even with that growth, Obama's jobs promises have fallen far short. His economic policies were supposed to create 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Now, ten months later the economy is still dealing with net job losses of 2,229,000 since February 2009.

Adding to that the 4 million promised jobs and Obama's administration is 10 months late and 6,229,000 jobs shy of meeting its job creation claims. With slightly over a year left in his term, America would have to average about 390,000 new jobs every month for Obama to see that many jobs created.

Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog noticed that even with the uptick in job growth in September, when seasonally adjusted, jobs are trending downward.

Unemployment is a huge concern for Americans right now. In September, Gallup found that it overtook "the economy" as "the most important problem facing this country today."

The president has been campaigning to spend another $447 billion to fix the jobs problem, after his first $787 billion stimulus failed to solve the unemployment crisis.

[Perdogg]

45,000 of that were people who had jobs but were striking.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

45,000 of those 103,000 were Verizon Employees returning from a Strike. What a bunch of phoney crap.

[tobyhill]

Exactly! The striking workers never really lost their jobs yet the MSM celebrated the skewed numbers by adding them back into the employment status.

If the MSM fools enough people to give Obama reelection I guarantee there will be an intensified revolt on the MSM and they will be bankrupt very quickly.

[John 3_19-21]

Who cares how many “jobs” are “created”. With out an increase in wealth there is no net gain to this stagnant economy.
It would be like me giving my 18 year old a job raking leaves in the back yard and expecting my household income to increase.
We need to put businesses back to work making money.


and yes........I know I'm preaching to the choir.

[Thank You Rush]

“”45,000 of those 103,000 were Verizon Employees returning from a Strike. What a bunch of phoney crap””

I had heard the report all day on FOX which included this information. Just for kicks last night I decided to see how the MSM was reporting it. I caught Diane Sawyer and nary a mention of the Verizon strikers returning to work. I didn’t catch any other network as just tuning in to Diane Sawyer is something that can ruin your whole day. I was in and out of there real fast. I don’t really know which network she’s on but I’d guess it was CBS.

[Lmo56]

Last month, when the unemployment figures came out, the libs said, “OH - 45,000 of them are striking workers.”.

THIS MONTH, the striking workers who WENT BACK to work are counted as being “hired” - and NOT A PEEP from the libs about this ...

What a bunch of Hooey !!!