Someone ought to fact check that putz Harwood for saying the U.S. has been adding jobs at a very healthy clip.
Ted Cruz did an admirable job responding to that liberal myth of healthy job growth in the second part of his answer. Cruz rarely lets a false premise go unchallenged in questions posed to him by hostile media while maintaining his composure. The full transcript of his answer is below:
Harwood: Youve said a few things that dont necessarily comport with the facts, like, 125,000 I.R.S. agents, send em to the border. Theyve only got 25,000 agents or something like. Youve talked about the job-killing nature of Obamacare. Were adding jobs at a very healthy clip right now. Why shouldnt somebody listen to you and say, The guyll just say anything doesnt have to be true?Cruz: There is a game that is played by left-wing editorial writers. Its this new species of yellow journalism called politi-fact. Colloquially I was referring to all the employees as agents.
That particular stat is in a joke I used. So, theyre literally fact-checking a joke. I say that explicitly tongue in cheek.
The second point is more significant. You talked about the job creation that has occurred. The simple reality is millions of Americans are hurting right now under the Obama economy. Yes, some jobs are being created, but not nearly as many have been destroyed. The rich, the top 1% today earn a higher share of our income than any year since 1928.
Big business does great with big government. It gets in bed with big government. Median wages have stagnated. So, if youre a single mom waiting tables, if youre a teenage immigrant washing dishes like my dad was when he came from Cuba to America, your life under the Obama economy has gotten harder and harder and harder.
Why does Harwood say, “We’re adding jobs . . . “ There is no “We” for a reporter. He is just a reporter.
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