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Biden Admin Massively Overstated How Many Jobs His Infrastructure Plan Will Create — By Roughly 600%
Daily Caller ^ | Apr 6, 2021 | CHRISTIAN DATOC SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT

Posted on 04/11/2021 4:55:57 PM PDT by upchuck

he Biden administration has severely overstated by more in recent days the total number of jobs the American Jobs Plan (AJP), President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure program, will create if signed into law.

Numerous Biden administration senior officials, including White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, National Economic Council director Brian Deese and even Biden himself, began touting a Moody’s Analytics estimate over the weekend that says the economy will create “19 million” jobs over the next 10 years if the AJP is passed.

However, Mark Zandi, Moody’s chief economist and one of two authors behind the firm’s analysis of Biden’s plan, told The Washington Post Monday that the estimate projected various potential legislative outcomes and that AJP alone is only expected to net the country 2.7 million jobs, a figure roughly 600% smaller than than the 19 million figure referenced over the weekend.

If Biden’s latest plan passes, the economy would likely create 18.96 million jobs by the end of 2030. If the plan doesn’t pass, the economy would likely still create 16.3 million jobs over that same timeframe, Zandi noted.

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BuckFiden's handlers have been busy. Good to see some honest reporting.
1 posted on 04/11/2021 4:55:57 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Math is racist.


2 posted on 04/11/2021 4:59:38 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: upchuck

The same old infrastructure crap. Same old gullible voters.


3 posted on 04/11/2021 5:00:10 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: upchuck

“Missed it by that much”—Agent Maxwell Smart


4 posted on 04/11/2021 5:00:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: upchuck

The MSM would never call him on it.


5 posted on 04/11/2021 5:00:22 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Huskrrrr

Whatever happened to Obama’s shovel ready jobs? He was supposed to solve the infrastructure problem and create all these jobs building roads and bridges and what not and none of that ever happened. The money just simply disappeared into government coffers.


6 posted on 04/11/2021 5:05:32 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: upchuck

They don’t “over estimate”, they out and out lie.


7 posted on 04/11/2021 5:05:52 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Western civilization is almost done.)
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To: upchuck

did you count all the bureaucrats to be hired to manage spending of the infra-structure Trillons? There are 12 Zeroes in a Trillion. That will need an army of bureaucrats.


8 posted on 04/11/2021 5:06:12 PM PDT by entropy12 (Elections & Erections have serious consequences!)
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To: upchuck

I know the various Fact Checkers at CNN, MSNBC, etc., will expose this.


9 posted on 04/11/2021 5:09:44 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: upchuck

Depends who you consider human in the numbers. Democrat national socialism started with considering feotuses not human, followed by now the uninitiated into homosexuality as non human.

Democrats ave his way of ablating from their minds whole swaths of the world.

They are a danger to the world, much the same Hitler’s gross form of nationalism when propped by communists became a danger to the world.


10 posted on 04/11/2021 5:13:06 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: upchuck

Remember back when the media would call bullsh*t on lying politicians? Now they rubber stamp it if for the Democrats.


11 posted on 04/11/2021 5:19:55 PM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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To: matt04

Yes, I’d like to know that too.


12 posted on 04/11/2021 5:19:58 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: upchuck

1) “Our Martian colonies will provide bountiful gold and energy resources to revive our economy.”
2) “Our economy is not going to revive nearly as much as we expected.”
3) “We over-estimated how much our Martian colonies would be producing.

“You lied about the whole thing?”

“No, no. Not at all. We over-estimated.”


13 posted on 04/11/2021 5:27:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: upchuck

Usual, customary, expected lies and Bullshit from democrats. Morons.


14 posted on 04/11/2021 5:29:55 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: EEGator

“...2.7 million jobs, a figure roughly 600% smaller than than the 19 million figure...”

Apparently.


15 posted on 04/11/2021 5:32:35 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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It’s just over 700% as well.
They can’t even do the math right.


16 posted on 04/11/2021 5:39:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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We should be reminded that before these power grabbing leftist shut down the country a year ago that we had full employment. We had all-time lows in unemployment for every demographic. When employment rates hit those levels you no longer need to worry about making new jobs. Also note, full employment was achieved through tax cuts and eliminating regulations. It was acheived in the private sector without government stimulus to every socialist and commie group in America. Finally note, that dispite tax cuts, tax revenue increased to all-time highs.

This infrastructure spending will not fix roads and bridges, but will increase debt and inflation. The US dollar won't be worth crap. It make America poor, weak and dependent. That's exactly what the Democrats want.

17 posted on 04/11/2021 5:40:41 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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Biden would love to create 19 million .ore government bureaucrats to torment us even more.


18 posted on 04/11/2021 5:45:35 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: EEGator

What I was getting at was that “600% less than 19 million” is meaningless. Yes, 19 million is about 700% of 2.7 million, or 600% more than 2.7 million. However, 2.7 million is about 14% of 19 million, or 86% less. Not 600% less.


19 posted on 04/11/2021 5:48:26 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: upchuck
Modern Federal construction work is specialized. You cannot walk in off the streets and do this kind of work as for those FDR public work programs 100 years ago.

It is likely the large infrastructure works will be concentrated to a few qualified companies, constrained by labor and materials.

We do need to revamp our decaying infrastructure but the work has to be prioritized and spread out for decades.

20 posted on 04/11/2021 5:54:59 PM PDT by John123 (It is Time for Debt Jubilee. Everything is Free)
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