Bush 1 million job loss is a lie!

Bureau of Labor and Statistics ^ | July 2004 | Bureau of Labor and Statistics

[freedomination]

Series Id:           LNS12000000 Seasonal Adjusted Series title:        (Seas) Employment Level Labor force status:  Employed Type of data:        Number in thousands Age:                 16 years and over
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
1994	121966	122086	121930	122290	122864	122634	122706	123342	123687	124112	124516	124721
1995	124663	124928	124955	124945	124421	124522	124816	124852	125133	125388	125188	125088
1996	125125	125639	125862	125994	126244	126602	126947	127172	127536	127890	127771	127860
1997	128298	128298	128891	129143	129464	129412	129822	130010	130019	130179	130653	130679
1998	130726	130807	130814	131209	131325	131244	131329	131390	131986	131999	132280	132602
1999	133027	132856	132947	132955	133311	133378	133414	133591	133707	133993	134309	134523
2000	136561(1)	136599	136668	137264	136611	136923	136516	136701	136908	137124	137316	137632
2001	137790	137581	137738	137275	137063	136842	137091	136314	136869	136447	136234	136078
2002	135715	136362	136106	136096	136505	136353	136478	136811	137337	137079	136545	136459
2003	137447(1)	137318	137300	137578	137505	137673	137604	137693	137644	138095	138533	138479
2004	138566(1)	138301	138298	138576	138772	139031	139660
1 : Data affected by changes in population controls in January 2000, January 2003 and January 2004.

[freedomination]

BLS Stats show almost 2 million jobs GAINED since Bush took office. January 2001=137,790,000 July 2004=139,660,000. Thats a gain!!!

[Jaysun]

Yep. I've pointed this out many times. Everyone just thought that it was unfathomable that the Democrats could be telling anything but the truth, so they assumed that I must have made a mistake. I hope that someone listens to you.

[evad]

This is the central theme of the latest slander-ad by Matt Damon and the usual list of suspects.

[new cruelty]

HMPH. Bump.

[kingattax]

liberals use "FUZZY MATH"

[Jaysun]

Oh, here's the other thing they bring up: "population has increased."

But if you look at the number of jobs gained over previous years (percentages) you'll see that the President is right on track.

[gathersnomoss]

Will Bush have this statistic on a huge screen for all to see during the convention????? If not, why not?????

[Republican Wildcat]

They keep downgrading this charge. At the beginning the Dem mantra was 3 million jobs lost.

[Republican Wildcat]

Everyone just thought that it was unfathomable that the Democrats could be telling anything but the truth, so they assumed that I must have made a mistake.

LOL.

[Jaysun]

Will Bush have this statistic on a huge screen for all to see during the convention????? If not, why not?????

Great question.

[KevinDavis]

That is correct.

[KOZ.]

for somebody who uses 'fuzzy logic' i am offended at the bad reputaion fuzzy math is getting. :)

nerd joke.

[lelio]

But if you look at the number of jobs gained over previous years (percentages) you'll see that the President is right on track.

Like when? Can we have some stats?

[rudypoot]

I show a gain of 1,870,000 jobs from Jan '01 to July '04.

Not bad economic stewardship by the Bush Administration considering we went through a recession, 9/11 and two wars during that time.

[CV_Gas]

This is the statistic that seems to be the benchmark...

National Employment, Hours and Earnings

Series Id: CES0000000001Seasonally AdjustedSuper Sector: Total nonfarmIndustry: Total nonfarmNAICS Code: N/AData Type: ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
1994 112473 112665 113133 113490 113829 114139 114498 114801 115155 115361 115786 116056
1995 116377 116588 116808 116971 116962 117189 117260 117538 117777 117926 118070 118210
1996 118192 118627 118882 119047 119376 119647 119875 120078 120296 120534 120826 121003
1997 121232 121526 121843 122134 122396 122642 122918 122911 123417 123756 124063 124361
1998 124629 124814 124962 125240 125641 125846 125967 126322 126543 126735 127020 127364
1999 127477 127873 127997 128379 128593 128850 129145 129338 129525 129947 130242 130536
2000 130730 130876 131369 131677 131908 131883 132043 132015 132104 132134 132317 132441
2001 132388 132492 132507 132236 132237 132087 131972 131831 131564 131203 130871 130659
2002 130494 130404 130447 130379 130381 130406 130295 130306 130259 130342 130305 130096
2003 130190 130031 129921 129901 129873 129859 129814 129789 129856 129944 130027 130035
2004 130194 130277 130630 130954 131162 131240(p) 131272(p)
p : preliminary

[Jaysun]

Yea, let me find it. I look at the percentage of increase from year to year for the last 15 years or so.

[CV_Gas]

sorry, I can't figure out how to get a nice table layout to post :-)

[Ditto]

That's Total nonfarmIndustry NOT total employment!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Yup. Any stats coming from pols you have to be careful of. Another lie accepted as gospel is the so-called surpluses during the Clinton years. We had no surpluses then, we have no job net job losses now.

[reformedliberal]

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