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Issa: Obama administration classifies jobs with political purpose.
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| June 6, 2012
| Fox News
Posted on 06/06/2012 5:26:09 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
The Obama administration on Wednesday acknowledged a wide-ranging definition of “green jobs” that includes bus driver, bicycle-shop clerk and other unexpected lines of employment, which the chairman of the GOP-led House oversight committee said is being done for “clearly political purposes.”
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, made the assertion during a hearing on how the administration counts so-called green jobs and the Labor Department’s recent change to how reporters can access key unemployment reports and other information.
The Labor Department "has jeopardized the integrity of employment data in some cases for clearly political reasons," he said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bls; classification; jobs; scam
The 0bummer&CoRegimeFromHell is more interested is 'reclassifying' existing jobs than in creating new ones. And the corrupt BLS helps them with the Smoke & Mirrors BS. US Rep Issa calls them on it. Read 'what jobs' they include in their stats; just mind-boggling as to how they justify that process. Of course, the lib-dem turd-polishing Rep Cummings, defends the re-classification scam and claims 3-million-plus were created by the lying Kenyan POS&Co.
To: carriage_hill
The Obama administration on Wednesday acknowledged a wide-ranging definition of “green jobs” that includes bus driver . . . Some of us scoffed when he promised to create green jobs, but he's doing it. Unemployment and gas prices are staying high, so more people have to take the bus. Another Obama success!
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posted on
06/06/2012 5:31:47 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
(A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
To: Pollster1
Don’t forget bicycle shop clerks and the guy who puts gas in a school bus! WTH? The buses’ engines are diesel; that’s not ‘green’. Gov’t number-crunching/creating morons. Figures. LOL.
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posted on
06/06/2012 5:58:30 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
To: carriage_hill
The “green economy” scam is bad enough as is. One can only imagine how atrocious it would be if they weren’t fudging the jobs numbers.
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posted on
06/06/2012 8:52:53 PM PDT
by
Qbert
("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
To: carriage_hill
AAHHHH....NOW I understand the report that says Oregon had 4.1% economic growth!!!!
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posted on
06/06/2012 9:05:28 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(What has happened to America?)
To: goodnesswins
"NOW I understand the report that says Oregon had 4.1% economic growth" A surge in bicycle repairs?
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posted on
06/06/2012 9:19:42 PM PDT
by
norton
To: norton
That and the GREENIE governor we have.....
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posted on
06/06/2012 9:44:15 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(What has happened to America?)
To: Qbert
Fudging the numbers is a long-honored and hallowed gov’t tradition, IIMN.
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posted on
06/07/2012 3:14:37 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
To: carriage_hill
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Should be re-named, the House Committee on Hindsight and Government Expansion.
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posted on
06/07/2012 4:44:46 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms for the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
To: Roccus
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posted on
06/07/2012 5:03:53 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
To: carriage_hill
This admin is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
They are not creating new jobs, but reclassifying many jobs as "green jobs" so they can then say, "We have created x number of green jobs."
More smoke and mirrors.
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posted on
06/07/2012 5:22:33 AM PDT
by
onemiddleamerican
(FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
To: onemiddleamerican
Exactly right. Smoke-and-mirrors. Numbers game. total BS.
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posted on
06/07/2012 5:40:56 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
To: carriage_hill
Selling used records is classified a “Green Job”. Liberals pull lies sold as truth right out of their butts.
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posted on
06/07/2012 5:45:25 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Romney - not Obama - not a Conservative - not a real Christian)
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