October 16, 2012 - 1:55 pm
The Obama campaign claims that President Obama has created more jobs than President Ronald Reagan did. It’s an absurd claim. Under Obama’s watch we have fewer net workers in the labor force than we did when he took office. They don’t even bother to square that fact with their claim. They just claim it, as Stephanie Cutter does in this clip.
Mystery Patriot has created a graph to illustrate its absurdity. Keep the link around in case you need to lay some facts on an undecided voter.
Click over to MP to see the stats that power the graphic. Those stats include:
- Net private sector jobs created during the first 37 months after the end of the recession that Obama inherited (June 2009-July 2012): 2.7 million
- Net private sector jobs created during the first 37 months after the end of the recession that Reagan inherited (November 1982-May 1985): 9.8 million
We are looking at the culmination of a culture in decline. In today’s western world of hype, malleable “truths,” grade and esteem inflation and affirmative action and its consequences, it should be no wonder that lies are told even at the highest levels of the social structure.
“Well, everybody lies. It’s no big thing.” They actually believe this. This is how they rationalize their behavior. It is true in their world, btw. They and their circle of friends all lie on a regular basis.
but the Fraud isn’t trying to persuade people who make decisions based on facts and reality.
These are not the jobs you’re looking for. And besides, who are you going to believe: me or your lying eyes and pocketbook?
I guess if they lost 10 jobs and created 9, then lost 8 and created 7, then lost 6 and created 5, they would end up with 21 jobs created (and I’m not even going to count how many were merely saved!). I mean if you keep digging holes and then covering them up, that’s work worthy of salary too. That’s how economies are grown.
I think Obama technically didn’t lower the ocean level as promised. But certainly he prevented it from increasing by 10 feet.
– repeating it, Cutter, over and over. In fact, keep inflating the number. Y’know, the way you will count votes for your guy on Election Night.
Don’t forget that Reagan created all those with a smaller population back then.
Ten million Obama voters just called from their parents’ basement to say you’re totally wrong.
How many times does a member of this administration have to shower in a day. Ten?
What she says Obama creating more private sector jobs is technically true provided you cut the comparison off once employment returned to pre-recession levels in October 1983. Peak pre-recession Total Private Employees in August 1981 was 75,448,000. Employment hit bottom in February 1983 at 72,899,000. For a total loss of 2,549,000. Of course from there the economy came roaring back adding an average of 327,000 private sector jobs per month, reaching 75,516,000 in October 1983 ***STOP COUNTING***. If you cut the comparison off there, then, technically, yes more private sector jobs were added from the bottom of the current recession to now than were during the Reagan recovery. The fact that the economy went on to add 6,229,000 jobs over the following 2 years is totally immaterial. Because, of course, once we were dug out of the hole it was no longer the Reagan Recovery it was just the economy. It’s just semantic and word games.
It’s also worth noting that the Reagan Recovery added 2,600,000 in 8 months, a feat that took Obama 18 months from the bottom of this recession.
But this is how they twist the statistics.
What’s that old saying about liars and statistics?
I see the Stephanie Cutter video clip got pulled.
If the democrats (and their compliant media) are only going to count total and not net jobs created then I have some advice for them:
1. Take 1000 random people on welfare
2. Hire them to some sort of campaign job
3. Fire them immediately
4. Repeat as many times as possible
I’ll bet if you automated the paperwork you could run the cycle ten or more times a day.
Think of that: 1000people x 10times per day x 1000 days = 10 million Jobs created!
OMG guys! The economy’s really roaring now!
That’s basically how these people are thinking though by only counting gains and not losses.
Ah, but you see, Obama counts not from the beginning of his term, but from the point when jobs started returning.
It’s very suspect reasoning.
By the way, his power to bring forth light upon the Earth happens to coincide with the sunrise. But don’t be fooled- it’s really his brilliance that does it.
It should also be noted that Social Security Disability claims have been increasing faster than jobs. Sure, Obama is creating all those jobs… but he is apparently also creating all those injuries!
This man must be stopped before we are all disabled, because if you extend the trends, we will hit Full Disability before Full Employment.
Thanks! I am an undecided voter and this is great information.
I now know I will be voting for Ronald Reagan!