Reality Check on Jobs

i simply cannot believe you just said that! O.. M.. G! I've read a lot of stupid, laughable things on here the past several years but this has to be absolute tops on that list!

UN-FRICKIN"- BELIEVABLE!

JOHN

Actually its the private sector that has received all the job growth while the public sector has been making massive job cuts. But its pointless to bring these kinds of facts to the attention of the FOX Propoganda crowd....just like its pointless telling them how they are paying less taxes under Obama than Bush.

3 Years after the largest financial collapse since the Great Depression we are slowly climbing out of the hole but as usual the only role the righties play is to complain how the Dems aren't cleaning up the GOP's mess fast enough.

While I don't think the GOP was alone in causing the financial collapse, they certainly have tried to stop almost every effort to recover from it.

I wonder how much faster the recovery would be if we did not have this administration in place. Another example may come in 60 days if the One does as promised and vetos the bill with the Keystone pipeline in it. I hope he decides having non mideast oil and jobs may be a good thing. Good luck to us.

Terry

January 2009 - by passing the stimulus, unemployment will not go over 8%.

This is the weakest post recession recovery, meanwhile the democrats had control of the executive branch as well as super majorities in Congress. Owebama and the rest of the democrats have only themselves to blame

Do you really want to get into quoting adminstration officials who made predictions that didn't work out?
The POG has a basketful of doozies.
Heres a hint. President Obama never said it, or anything like it. Candidate Obama said that if drastic measures weren't taken, unemployment would hit double digits. A fairly obscure member of his administration did say what you imply he said, but again- do you really want to play that game?

You can certainly argue the stimulus was not big enough which is what many Democrats are now saying. What you can not say with an ounce of credibility is that the stimulus plan didn't create jobs or that we would have been better off without it. The non-partisan CBO repeatedly makes this point and has demonstrated the millions of direct jobs supported by the stimulous plan - millions of jobs that would not be there without it. Three million is their low-ball estimate. And that does not include the small businesses that benefit from those employed people in their respective communities. (ie) the barber who cuts the hair of GM workers

The GOP Speaker of the House, John Boehner, hailed the stimulus projects in his district and all the jobs they created. See almost every other GOP Congressman for a similar reaction. Many of them (even tea-T-party favorties like Eric Cantor) continue to beg the president for federal dollars in their districts all the while preaching how much they hate stimulous money. Cantor wants high speed rail - the punchline of all GOP jokes regarding stimulous money. And Hoops eats up all their rhetoric..

But this discussion is largely a circus, anyway. All the neo-cons who wanted to sink all the banks, all the auto industy and downline suppliers, and 20 percent of the public work force....those people are complaining about the unemployment rate now. Hilarious isn't it?

facts: Private sector jobs gained 2,947,000......pivate sector jobs lost 4,189,000
Government jobs lost 599,000 so more jobs have been lost in the private sector under Obama
Also federal jobs pay has increased.......USA Today reporter "The number of federal employees making $150,000 or more a year has soared 10 fold in the past 5 years and doubled under Obama".......a liberal paper. not Fox Channel propoganda.

Pjstroh, how come you didnt answer the question...do we get to blame the Dems 5 years after a GOP president gets in? Obama has been the worst president of all time. IMHO