Obama: “Every economist” says I saved or created 2 million jobs

Hot Air ^ | February 04, 2010 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

Jake Tapper is a little confused, and so am I. The White House supposedly abandoned the “saved or created” jobs metric because of its fantasy elements and prefers now to count jobs “funded” through Porkulus, an order that came from one of the chief economists in the White House, Peter Orszag. So why did Obama claim to a Nashua, New Hampshire audience on Tuesday that he had “saved or created” two million jobs?

[RobinMasters]

Ping

[a fool in paradise]

Okay then, break it down, how many did you save and then how many did you create? Which industries?

[JaneNC]

LOL LOL
He is a comedian.

[dalereed]

2 million simple servants that should have been fired!

[Question Liberal Authority]

Does Ellie Light count as one job, or 50?

[a fool in paradise]

Ellie Light is bilingual. Good employee if you can find him/her.

[jackibutterfly]

Then, how come my sister is losing HER job???? AND, SHE works for the Federal Government - the Bureau of Land Management in Anchorage!!! The whole department where she works is being rif’d (reduction in force) - about 100 jobs - going kaput! ‘Splain THAT, obama!

[a fool in paradise]

2500 NASA workers don’t think their jobs will be “saved” by this administration.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Can we say delusional? Big-time POS.

[JimmyMc]

“Which industries?”
Unions and public sector. Forget the private sector, they are the enemy to Barack’s agenda.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This guy is not only turning into exactly what the worst fears about him were, but one of history’s biggest flat-out goofballs of all time. Sheeesh.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[shelterguy]

I actually did a stimulus job last November. When the gubmint guy came out to interrogate me he asked how many jobs this project created. I told him...400. He wrote it down.

Actually, it created NONE and it took two weeks.

[tje]

How many has he lost or destroyed?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Obama said "Now, if you hear some of the critics, they’ll say, well, the Recovery Act, I don’t know if that’s really worked, because we still have high unemployment, but what they fail to understand is that every economist, from the left and the right, has said, because of the Recovery Act, what we’ve started to see is at least a couple of million jobs that have either been created or would have been lost."

Now THAT, my FRiends, is Authentic INCOMPREHENSIBLE Washington Gibberish...and from the most intelligent person to ever hold the office!

[sickoflibs]

Yep, heard this. How about those 100 economists that he used to say were claiming the stimulus would work?

This is part of his PR blitz to counter MA loss and coming midterm election tide.

[a fool in paradise]

Forget the private sector, they are the enemy to Barack’s agenda.

The president plays to his anti-business base:

"We've got to make sure that our party understands that, like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" - Barack Obama Feb 4, 2010

[a fool in paradise]

Mine’s going to India this year.

[andy58-in-nh]

Learn to recognize this argument. It is a logical fallacy called the "appeal to belief":

1. Most people believe that a claim, X, is true.
2. Therefore X is true

Obama uses this argument all the time, which is unsurprising as it is a favorite of people who do not truly wish to defend themselves and wish to intimidate others into accepting their point of view without argumentation.

But Obama's favorite argument (also a fallacy), as many of you know by now is the "straw man": create an ugly caricature of your opponent or his argument and then attack the caricature rather than the real person or argument.