The Great Kerry Campaign Lie
John Kerry Kicks His Lie-Machine Into Overdrive
March 14, 2004
by
Kevin McCullough
In almost Al Gore-like fashion the John Kerry machine is telling one tall tale after another. "He wants to be the second 'black' president", "He's met with foreign leaders who have looked him in the eye and said 'you gotta win this thing'", "His wife must be referred to as African American", and the list goes on.
But the one that is most glaring is the one he repeats on camera, every day, every place he goes, and every time he speaks.
He said it again this week in Illinois, "George Bush's tax cuts have not created jobs."
While this may tickle the ears of the average stump speech attendee, a tiny bit of research proves exactly the opposite.
In 2001 the President got through his initial package of tax cuts, but because those on capital hill played politics the real "bite" of the cuts (that which would do the most good) got tabled for future installment. The cuts that got through were important enough that it took the recessionary economy and began to make it bubble just a little. Growth was sluggish and job creation was the lagging indicator of economic growth. Add to that the impact of 9/11, the near collapse of the airline industry, the multiple scandals from Enron to Martha Stewart, and the economy was surprisingly still bubbling - but job growth was still slow. Then came what the President knew the country needed from the days of the campaign trail - important tax relief.
President Bush got his important round of tax cuts through in May 2003.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate has declined unbroken in the nine months since - 6.3% at its high to its present day 5.6%. Over the last six months more than 345,000 jobs have been created. Since May of 2003, according to the BLS more than 1,075,000 jobs have been created. Economist Larry Kudlow cited this last week that since January of 2002 more than 1.8 million people have gone back to work.
There are more people employed now than when President Bush came into office. The BLS numbers show that when President Clinton left office 137.6 million people were working. Even though the Clinton economy was headed into a recession that 137.6 number was an all time high. The same table at the BLS shows that under Bush 138.3 million people are working. And unlike the Clinton economy this job growth was being built on real products and services - it is the "dot com anti bubble" - so to speak.
Simply put, if John Kerry's "magic number" of 2.3 million jobs were lost in Bush's first three years, then based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bush's tax cuts have created unparalleled job growth.
President Bush can't have expanded the overall number of people working without having a net jobs gain of between 900,000 to 1,000,000. That means the economy, once stimulated by the tax cuts, has grown close to 3.2 million jobs all total.
John Kerry likes to hit the campaign theme of "Outsourcing is bad". He is referring to mainly the information technology jobs that have gone to India and Asia. But he dishonestly refuses to acknowledge that because of the free trade that has allowed the outsourcing of those jobs, that other companies have brought jobs to the U.S. worker.
Nearly seven million U.S. workers presently work for companies like BMW, Toyota, and Nokia. Should the "free trade" go away so will the jobs of those seven million.
It is also important to keep in mind that John Kerry is attempting right now to raise your taxes by close to 3 trillion dollars. His actions (or lack thereof) in the Senate are attempting to undo these record breaking months of job growth and prosperity for the American worker.
3 trillion dollar tax increase? Seven million new jobs taken away? And a complete undoing of the fastest economic growth in the history of the nation?
The truth told, he better kick that lie machine into overdrive...
Kevin McCullough
DISCUSS THIS ARTICLE IN THE FORUM!
Kevin McCullough is heard 1 to 4 p.m. EST on 570 WMCA and 970 DJ in New York City. Additionally, you can read his daily postings at The KMC Blog. Kevin is a past recipient of the Marconi and Tesla broadcasting awards, an internationally syndicated columnist, and the author of the upcoming book, "Men That Every Man Should Be!".