Comments on: 100 Days Presser: 150,000 jobs?

By: Obama Demonstrates His Porkulus Was Bogus In His Own Words « Start Thinking Right

Fri, 29 May 2009 17:19:02 +0000

[...] rational human being has to mock Obama for claiming he “created or saved” jobs. The national media would NEVER have allowed [...]

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:51:20 +0000

I wish this “boy” would be consistent; He should shut up about everything for the next 3 1/2 years like he’s shutting up his personal history. We’ve got enough comic strip characters trying to make funny.

By: Alden Pyle

Alden Pyle — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:03:50 +0000

he didn’t save mine, or my neighbor’s :-(

By: loudmouth883

loudmouth883 — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:58:56 +0000

Too bad he couldn’t save the 100 people that just got laid off where I work.

By: We 150,000 Jobs Saved, Too. « Stronger Than Death

We 150,000 Jobs Saved, Too. « Stronger Than Death — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:35:14 +0000

[...] We 150,000 Jobs Saved, Too. Posted on May 1, 2009 by Fred Ralista Regarding: a This [...]

By: DSchoen

DSchoen — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:45:39 +0000

“I created 190,000 jobs a week ago Friday”

Griz

Liar!

I created 40,000 of those 190,000 a week ago Friday

By: DSchoen

DSchoen — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:34:31 +0000

“already saved or created”

How exactly does one quantify jobs saved?

Could Bush claim he “saved” 170 million jobs?

By: AZfederalist

AZfederalist — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:48:12 +0000

..provided a tax cut to 95 percent of all working families.

OK, I'm really tired of this lie. Somebody please show me where Congress passed a tax cut. Was it in the stimulus that no one read? Cutting withholding does not equal tax cut -- it equals more taxes due (or, if you are foolish, a smaller refund) next year.

By: vitocorleone99

vitocorleone99 — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:08:04 +0000

He’s probably talking about firefighters and cops and such that were funded at the local level with tax dollars through the stimulus package. I have no idea if that many were on the chopping block, but from the things that have been said it seems that this would be the 150,000.

By this logic, his determination to keep taxes high and complicated has probably saved millions of jobs. Sure they’re IRS jobs, but he’s saving them by golly.

By: mark24609

mark24609 — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:05:20 +0000

It’s unbelievable isn’t it?

http://mark24609.blogspot.com/2009/04/100-days-1360-days-to-go.html

Mark

By: Magic Numbers | Constant Conservative

Magic Numbers | Constant Conservative — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:24:49 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey at HotAir has some very good questions with regards the 150,000 jobs which have been saved/created by the federal government since President Obama got the ball rolling: It takes a lot of nerve to get up in front of the press and claim job creation or salvation with specific numbers as unemployment skyrockets. Of course, when Barack Obama does it, the act takes a little less courage, as the everyone knows the national media won’t challenge him on it: [...]

By: Scrappy

Scrappy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:48:58 +0000

I’m assuming that because I still have a job it is because Obama saved it for me.

Thanks Barack!

By: Transcript From Obama's 100 Days In Office Speech |

Transcript From Obama's 100 Days In Office Speech | — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:32:22 +0000

[...] began by passing a recovery act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs and provided a tax cut to 95 percent of all working families. We passed a law to provide and [...]

By: amkun

amkun — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:27:09 +0000

He’s just being modest. He’s actually “saved” over 89% of the jobs in the American market. He’s that amazing.

By: Obama Falsely Claims to Have Created or Saved 150,000 Jobs in his First 100 Days : Stop The ACLU

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:20:51 +0000

[...] Obama claims: This budget builds on the steps we’ve taken over the last 100 days to move this economy from [...]

By: unclesmrgol

unclesmrgol — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:10:50 +0000

I applied the brakes as I drove the bus over the cliff.

By: Ace of Spades HQ

Ace of Spades HQ — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:48:46 +0000

Obama Just Plain Makes up “150,000 Jobs” He’s “Saved or Created” So Far; No One in Press Seems Curious of Provenance of This Fictional Figure…

We’re losing jobs at a seriously badwrong clip, but President Crazy-Talk assures us, without citing any support, that his Spendulus has already “saved or created” 150,000 jobs. In related news, this blog has “saved or created” 600,000 jobs. I have…

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:48:41 +0000

Fall in US GDP worst in 51 years

Why? Obama’s policies….
No one in the MSM dares utter the words Obama & Failure in the same sentence.
I don’t care how much “Swagga” Obama has….it won’t create jobs. Nor will his “stimulus” create jobs….The “stimulus” was a democratic trojan horse from the get go….But anyone who reads HOTAIR on a regular basis knows that anyway.

A Marxist leader who gets everything he wants is in direct conflict with the capitalist society that produced the great wealth & power that Americans enjoyed. I say “enjoyed” in the past tense. Once the young libs realize all their iPhone dreams will be gone with a Marxist ruler then they may revolt.
But then again – Obama has the “Swagga” – The Marxist “Swagga”

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:41:10 +0000

I swear to God, Obama could get up there and say the earth was flat and the press corps would just smile and nod and move onto the next question.

By: seven

seven — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:31:59 +0000

Aks Obama and he says he saved peoria caterpillar jobs. Ask Caterpillar and they laid people off. wonder who is honest?
The largest winner I know about is rush Limbaugh. His ratings are awesome.

By: Dasher

Dasher — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:17:25 +0000

ACORN?

bluelightbrigade on April 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM

I am sure ACORN is hiring… paid with tax dollars, to insure Democrats remain the majority party.

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:53:39 +0000

Really? Which 150,000 jobs were those? Does Obama have any supporting data for this claim?

That’s the beauty of his repeated “created or saved” BS. You can’t disprove it. When we lose 600,000 jobs a month, Obama will simply say “but imagine if I hadn’t saved so many other jobs”.

This is so disgusting that anyone allows him to get away with “saved” jobs.

By: righty64

righty64 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:48:37 +0000

Why couldn’t Bullwinkle and Rocky run for president? They would be better than these brain surgeons! Only a leftie Dem thinks that the GOVERNMENT creates jobs! Oh, my bad! I keep forgetting that there will soon be NO private sector!

By: BlueCollarAstronaut

BlueCollarAstronaut — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:36:40 +0000

Hey, I still have a job after 100 days; obviously, Obama saved it! Huzzah!

Snowed In on April 30, 2009 at 3:05 PM

I think you’ve hit on something: The abstractness of that number may cause quite a few people to personalize the statement.

Kind of like how I’ve heard that 75% of people polled consider themselves above average drivers (or something like that), now several million people can each consider himself one of the lucky 150,000 for whom Obama (personally, no doubt!) saved his job.

The sneaky part (on top of the fact that the number seems completely bogus), is that even if someone does publicly retracts the statement to lower the number, the number itself doesn’t really matter. Without knowing what exactly these supposed jobs were,with “saved” in the descriptor, everyone is now free to assume they are the lucky one’s he’s talking about…and so each one of us potentially owes Obama our livelihood….right?

By: JIMV

JIMV — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:33:05 +0000

It is pretty easy to create jobs when all one has to do is make the claim minus the workers, as Obama did. Simply making it up is the new reality in Washington.