Posted on 10/07/2012 1:17:38 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama’s advisers attacked critics for suggesting the White House fudged jobs figures, comparing them to “lunatic” birthers. The sub-8% unemployment stats were released by the non-partisan Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday, but former GE chief Jack Welch and several Tea Party figures claimed the numbers were cooked. Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs called such comments “incredibly dangerous” and said Welch had embarrassed himself. “There's a number of people that believe the real unemployment report is somewhere in a safe in Nairobi with the president's Kenyan birth certificate," Gibbs said sarcastically on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
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The lunatics are the people who expect us to believe those numbers. They would have to have added over 800,000 new jobs for the unemployment rate to have changed that much.
Obama isn’t very good at math and doesn’t expect the rest of us to be either. We are just supposed to believe every lie that comes out of his mouth without question.
Screw him and his butt kissers!
I have to admit, although Rush was predicting this (and others), I was quite surprised (and delighted) of the push-back that I've seen thus far. I'm getting the vibe people are buying this crap this time around.
“Gibbs called such comments “incredibly dangerous” “
So the hallmark of the US political system: skepticism, is dangerous?
FU, Gibbs.
“I’m getting the vibe people are buying this crap this time around.”
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Doh!
are = aren’t
People still remember, probably, Obama using the police against broadcasters not to his liking. At least, that one hasn’t been completely scrubbed from the web.
Joke of the day.
We are starting to get better at using it than they are.
Hmmm? Bet that Obama's College records, admission applications are in the same safe.
Led by Obama appointee Hilda Solis, a died-in-the-wool hard core communist.
"Reminder: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is a Rabid Communist"
The script plays out.
I was just about to post on Tracy Connor. Another puff piece---woe is Obama, et al. Thank their lucky stars that they have Tracy Connor to set things straight to defend Obama Adm's jobs numbers against all the lunatics "out there."
Tracy Connor wrote this sentence all by herself:
"The non-partisan Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 7.8% unemployment rate Friday, and former GE chief Jack Welch and several Tea Party figures claimed the numbers were cooked."
REALLY??? Welch & Tea Party "figures"? Just those particular lunatics?
I personally keyworded all FR threads on this current jobs report with "magicnumbers". There were so many articles that presented overwhelming evidence from such a broad spectrum of analysts, I finally said, "enough" and stopped keywording.
Gibbs and Axelrod (as campaign "advisors") are untethered from the need to approximate anything close to the truth, and it is obvious their "talking point" is orchestrated.
From the same article:
"Another senior adviser, David Axelrod, also compared Welch and company to right-wingers who believe Obama was not born in the U.S...."They can join the lunatic fringe of birthers,” ...calling the conspiracy theory “completely nuts.”"
Tracy Connor then adds this most unbiased and salient point (no doubt after scouring the Internet and unable to find contrary analysis):
"Several independent economists backed up the validity of the new numbers."
Lest any doubt remain about Connor's press credentials and brown-shirt loyalty among her Stasi overlords, she adds (again quoting only Axelrod and Gibbs for comment):
"The Democrats’ post-debate message on the Sunday news shows was that Obama was thrown off his game because Romney backpedaled on his tax and health-care proposals.
REALLY?
PS: Unbiased reporter that she is, Tracy Connor did obtain a comment from Mitt Romney’s campaign adviser, Ed Gillespie.
This is how to take the 7.8% off the table in easily understood terms. Just say:
Did you know that if everybody lost their jobs tomorrow, the unemployment rate would be zero percent after the unemployment checks ran out? It makes no sense, does it? Well, that is how the 7.8% rate is calculated. Now the real truth is....(U6 unchanged, total number of people with full time jobs lowest since 1980, take your pick).
I don’t think that anyone but the Obamophiles believed the figures. The Welch comment, “If you can’t debate, you manipulate,” summed up the situation perfectly. The Obama administration thought that they could make the terrible debate performance disappear from the news with the fictitious jobs numbers. All it ended up doing was doubling down on the desperation of the Obama administration.
When Bob Woodward turns on a Democrat incumbent president, you know that there is trouble in Democrat paradise.
“Now the real truth is....(U6 unchanged, total number of people with full time jobs lowest since 1980, take your pick).”
The other factor that should be shouted from the rooftops is the simple fact that a lot of the new jobs are much less attractive than the old ones. There are simply a lot fewer well-paying jobs out there.
I’m sure 0bama is proud of creating a lot of full-time fast food worker jobs...
There’s a reason that average family income is down - it’s because there aren’t as many decent jobs.
Twitter/@jack_welch
The Department of Labor said that unemployment fell 0.3 percent because of a total employment gain of 873,000, the most since 1983. The number of unemployed, meanwhile, fell 456,000 in September.
http://www.businessinsider.com/jack-welch-obama-jobs-report-numbers-romney-2012-10#ixzz28ecI2lcH
I heard several economists say that that kind of job creation could only be supported by a GDP growth rate of over 5%. Plus, why wasn't this huge spike in newly hired workers reflected in the U6 number? Something just doesn't add up.
Even as he launched the Jobs Act, White House insiders alerted reporters that they intended to use the bill’s inevitable failure to “blame Republicans for the jobs crisis.” In his speech to a joint session of Congress, President Obama said the bill contained nothing “controversial”; he also said “the American Jobs Act will not add to the deficit.” Neither was true.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/09/11/Obamas-Jobs-Act-Not-Just-a-Failure-but-a-Fraud.aspx
Thanks for the link.
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