Where do those “created or saved” job numbers originate?
posted at 8:05 am on June 11, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Joe Biden couldn’t answer that question, saying that the answer was “above his pay grade,” even though he’s got the second-highest pay grade in the executive branch. Barack Obama, who has the only higher pay grade, won’t explain his “saved or created” statistics, either. We all know the actual answer: Obama’s team calculated that spending X amount would “create or save” X jobs, and they’re sticking with the formula even while unemployment skyrockets and reveals their utterly useless pronouncements.
Under those circumstances, Chris Muir hits it pretty close to the mark:
I’m surprised that Obama hasn’t yet figured out that he could just as easily claim that he’s “created or saved” 130 million jobs. After all, if we hadn’t elected Obama, every single one of us could have lost our jobs. Can we prove that we wouldn’t have gotten fired? If he wants to pull stats out of his nether regions, why not just go for the whole enchilada?
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Well those numbers certainly do stink. . .
rbj on June 11, 2009 at 8:08 AM
rush claims to have saved or created 55 million jobs since he started broadcasting in ’88; while i don’t believe the claim, i find it more plausible than obama’s 150,000.
weewilly on June 11, 2009 at 8:09 AM
How soon before Axelrod polls the “saved or created” phrase and decides to rename it because the folks just aren’t buying it?
ctmom on June 11, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Couple the unemployment figures with gas prices going through the roof and Obama will have some serious splainin to do.
The silver lining in all of this is his popularity will start to nosedive which will make socialized healthcare and crap-and-trade much harder to pass.
Doughboy on June 11, 2009 at 8:11 AM
With liberals (which includes socialists like the filthy liar in the White House) actually accomplishing something like saving real jobs isn’t important. All that matters is the intent to save X number of jobs. Once you’ve stated your intent, you chalk it up as an accomplished fact, and move on. In short, Obama uses the same accounting system that Bernie Madoff used.
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 8:11 AM
If the stats had been up his backside to start with, wouldn’t the SRM have been able to read them?
TugboatPhil on June 11, 2009 at 8:11 AM
“Job Change?”
CDeb on June 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM
This is ridiculous
I want to punch my car radio every time I hear that RIDICULOUS phrase
“Saved or created”
GET THE F*CK OFF MY RADIO!!!
What IS WITH these people?
You “saved” a job? People keep LOSING jobs!
Saved or created?
WHICH ONE IS IT?
Holy Gabano I’m about to have a coronary here
blatantblue on June 11, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Just wait until they pass healthcare. Then you will start hearing how many lives BO has saved.
jmarcure on June 11, 2009 at 8:15 AM
The Obama administration doesn’t explain bad news, it creates distractions. Bad unemployment numbers means more gaffes from Biden, more travel outside the US for Obama, and Michelle Obama’s arms will get a fifty city tour of their own.
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 8:15 AM
He’s talking about 150,000 community organizers at ACORN who are gearing up for the 2010 census, a/k/a Operation Redistribute
WealthPopulation.Ted Torgerson on June 11, 2009 at 8:16 AM
To answer your question, Ed, like any good con man Obama has an intuitive sense of how far he can go without completely giving the game away and losing the mark. I speculate that Obama and his team picked numbers at or near the top of the remotely plausible range and don’t dare go higher. By the way I love that comic strip!
jwolf on June 11, 2009 at 8:16 AM
This is all just fluff – the real pain is coming – and he won’t be able to put makeup on to cover the wounds.
Why do you think he’s running so fast to get Sotomeyer confirmed and the Health Care Plan passed? Answer – dude knows he running out of time. Support for his policies is gone – and soon, support for his charm and charisma will follow. After that – he’s a besieged President – because the Democrats will turn on him. No honor amongst theives.
Cap and Trade? I don’t think we’ll have to worry about it. GM making little tiny cars? We won’t have to worry about it.
Only thing we have to worry about is killing Health Care – he may have enough head of steam to plow that through. After that – his reactor is “scrammed”.
HondaV65 on June 11, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Pick the numbers from a hat like a magician. Magician-in-Chief he is, someone said. We are his mesmerized audience.
atemely on June 11, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Why not? The Left changed “global warming” to “climate change” when the facts were no longer convenient.
flipflop on June 11, 2009 at 8:22 AM
More kool-aid anyone?
DougDavis on June 11, 2009 at 8:24 AM
I hate it!!!
I hate it because he’s just being arbitrary with numbers!!
What a drinking game it could be
“Let’s get drunk and pick a number”
blatantblue on June 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM
That was fine in his first couple months in office. Targeting Rush or going on Leno were things he could get away with. But we’re fast approaching half a year in office for the guy. The public expects results at this point and what they’re getting is the exact opposite of what he promised. Aside from WWIII, no distraction will get him off the hook anymore.
Doughboy on June 11, 2009 at 8:27 AM
This is just my personal take but, imho, I think Obama screwed himself out of a second term the min the stimulus passed.
B Man on June 11, 2009 at 8:28 AM
This just means they will hire 600,000 more temporary census workers.
Maybe Obama can start counting the unemployed as federal workers?
reaganaut on June 11, 2009 at 8:28 AM
I really can’t take the tools in this Badministration
blatantblue on June 11, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Where do those “created or saved” job numbers originate?
I think the medical term is ……. Obamanus Rectumulus
fogw on June 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Don’t question the messiah. Remember, he is “like God”.
golfballs03 on June 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM
I agree with what you are saying, the honeymoon is over and Obama has yet to get serious about the issues. The fact that he’s out in Wisc. campaigning for nationalized healthcare with public appearances (instead of building a concensus coalition with legislators and the industry leaders) shows just how unfit for office he is. He just doesn’t get it.
That being said, I think you overestimate the public’s expectations. For some reason, Obama is not being held accountable for all the very bad things that have already occurred in his administration. Why should that change now?
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 8:32 AM
I have personally created or saved hundreds of millions of jobs, because, had I not been born, the clinical test which ushered in a new drug that prevented a pandemic would never have been completed. Had that pandemic occurred, millions upon millions would have lost their jobs due to being dead, and their offspring, who would not come into being, would not be able to be employed, either. Or at least, it is impossible or extremely difficult for you to prove otherwise.
RWExtremist on June 11, 2009 at 8:35 AM
People are willing to give him lots of time.
They will hold him accountable, it will just take some time.
Like, oh maybe around 2010.
B Man on June 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM
With the daily lies spewing forth what makes you think BO will create anything? All they have to do is say they created this or saved that and who are you going to turn to for facts? I have no hope that the leg tingle, stained pants, orgasmic MSM will ever doubt their god.
Now that’s creative liberal thinking.
jmarcure on June 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Just watch as the unemployment numbers keep getting worse, he will inflate that number a few times over. By late summer he will be claiming 250-300,000 jobs saved by the stimulus. Remember he is going fullt tilt to get even more money spent quicker to attempt to stave off even worse numbers. The economy is in the tank, and if the MSM were truthful they would be reporting that we are by definition in a depression not a “very bad recesion”. He is going to have a very very bad summer.
Johnnyreb on June 11, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Bullwinkle: “Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!”
Rocky: “Again?”
Bullwinkle: “Nothing up my sleeve…PRESTO!”(As he pulls out a giant snarling something-or-other): “Oops! I’ve got to get a new hat!”
TexasJew on June 11, 2009 at 8:37 AM
A shame we have to wait until 2012 until the obamamessiah loses his job so we can all save ours.
They will change it to “created or saved” to confuse the lemming dems and the media will buy it as well.
So MSN blames Reagan for the economy and BHO and the NY Slimes blames Bush for Obama’s 400% INCREASE IN THE DEFECIT IN 120 DAYS? Acountability anyone? Lets get back to the real leaders and get rid of amateur hour.
dthorny on June 11, 2009 at 8:38 AM
You mean Obama economimus and capitolism rectum.
dthorny on June 11, 2009 at 8:41 AM
I sell political bumper stickers and anti-obama sticker sales shot through the roof in the last 3 weeks. People are starting to realize that Obama is the Sham-Wow guy of politics.
There is a lot of anger out there and it is only going to get worse.
VicThrust on June 11, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Remember when the left used to yip and yap about the jobs created under the Bush administration being low paying service jobs?
But now they conveniently ignore this.
Disturb the Universe on June 11, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Maybe if he can swear in a few thousand Fire Ant mounds here in Texas as American citizens, then he will reach his employment goals, since Fire Ants always have jobs.
That’s almost as plausible as comparing Michelle Obama favorably to Jackie Kennedy.
TexasJew on June 11, 2009 at 8:41 AM
To the contrary, he bought his second and possibly third terms though your great grandkids futures.
He was able to funnel billions to his special interest groups like ACORN. He gave the UAW an auto company of their very own. He’s also going to backdoor socialized healthcare and amnesty. The stimulus bill was all about paying off his loyalists through breaking up the USA and giving away the pieces to like-minded socialists.
Never thought I’d see the day where I consider the POTUS one of those domestic enemies the Presidential oath talks about but this administration is definitely working overtime to destroy America.
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 8:43 AM
The numbers came from the wild imaginations and wishful thinking of the Obama crowd.
And trying to pad the number by creating make-work, dead end summer jobs out of thin air as Obama announced the other day cost a lot more than it is worth. It is another naked attempt to buy votes. The money is aimed for the ACORN crowd, high school and college students. Does it not achieve the same goal by letting the families keep more of their own money by keeping government spending and taxes down. The families can spend the money as they need to create the multiplier effect just as well. That way everyone benefits, not only the family with high school and college kids.
bayview on June 11, 2009 at 8:44 AM
So… let me see… even if he has “saved” 300,000 jobs (a fiction, in any case), then each job has cost us over 2.5 million tax dollars per minimum-wage job.
And they are proud of that fact..
Keep up the good work!
TexasJew on June 11, 2009 at 8:45 AM
So the economy is at a standstill? Could it be Obama’s policies have ALL businesses on standby to determine what he will try to overthrow next? Spending out of a recession is still bad policy? So Keynes is still wrong?
I wonder what would happen if he CUT taxes for business?
I can dream.
dthorny on June 11, 2009 at 8:46 AM
The thing is, there is a tipping point. The more people at home during the day listening to the lies eminating from the White House, the greater the outrage. It will be impotent outrage but at some point even the deaf Democrats will have to understand that they have a “people problem.”
It will be at that point the career politicians in Congress start breaking away from lockstep approval of the filthy liar’s agenda. There will definitely be casualties in the 2010 election cycle. The question is how many Democrats are going to be willing to fall on their sword for Obama and how many will be able to get out of the way in time.
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 8:48 AM
The only true way gubmint can “create or save” jobs is to……………..(drumroll, please)………………expand the gubmint.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM
The problem is that his mindless followers believe him. . . . these clowns will still be singing his praises after the country is broke and they’re scrounging through trash cans for food.
rplat on June 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Gallup has Obama below 60% for the first time in a very long time. I think the shine is finally coming off the “new”. The shiny new toy is losing its luster. Too bad there’s no 9 month warranty or return policy.
SouthernGent on June 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Hmm: Lives saved or created minus those aborted.
Dasher on June 11, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Hey it’s like Obama is in the special Olympics…or something…
dthorny on June 11, 2009 at 8:53 AM
We’ve seen Congressional Democrats create much of the economic mess through Fannie/Freddie and walk away as if they had nothing to do with the meltdown. We’ve seen financial services and automobile executives treated like criminals in hearings. We’ve seen the administration take over two automobile manufacturers and give one away to the unions as a thank you gift for their support in the last election. We’ve seen the draft proposal that would destroy healthcare with the added bonus of higher labor costs for businesses.
The Obama administration is just about as anti-business as you can get. We might as well be in Venezuela, Cuba, or Zimbabwe. It is small wonder that businesses are stagnant right now. They have no faith in this administration and neither should anybody else.
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Well if polls are any indication, Obama is being held accountable. Ignore the personal popularity nonsense. The real substantive numbers are the ones regarding his policies and the majority of the public is not down with all the spending, especially with nothing to show for it. And his foreign policy numbers ain’t so hot either.
Ultimately, Obama will be held accountable on Election Day in 2010 and 2012. And I don’t care how many folks think he’s cool or speaks well when aided by a teleprompter. If the economy is in the toilet, he and his party will suffer.
Doughboy on June 11, 2009 at 8:55 AM
You must be talking about the MSM.
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 8:56 AM
This parody says the “jobs saved” figure came from Rasputin, Obama’s newly-appointed “Economic Adviser to the Czars”: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-appoints-russian-mystic-rasputin.html
Mervis Winter on June 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Actually, he should use Nancy Pelosi’s number.
“we’ve created or saved 500,000,000 jobs in this country”
therightscoop on June 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Its an old trick he learned at ACORN don’t you know. I remember Jimmah Carter and he wasn’t nearly this bad. So how do you boneheads like being a socialist?
bluegrass on June 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Actually, the Messiah has created or saved EVERY job in the United States of American (including Guam and Puerto Rico!!!!!) He’s just too humble and modest to state that publicly….for now.
olesparkie on June 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM
This is how it works: If I own a company that employs 100 people and I’m forced to lay off 40, the remaining 60 employees count as “saved” jobs. My production and sales, and the amount of taxes going to the treasury, have dropped by 40% but hey, Obama’s “saved” my business. Presto!
Trafalgar on June 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Unfortunately, the public isn’t making the connection. They hate all the stuff Obama is doing but aren’t holding him accountable to the extent that they should. It’s much the way that Congress has been in the 20% range for approval ratings for some time and yet we don’t see wholesale change in elections results.
What I am hoping for is a groundswell of anger that peaks just before the midterm elections in 2010. It would change the whole dynamic in DC and force the administration to do something other than get all this massive spending rubber stamped by a party line vote. Obama claims to be a great negotiator…. I’d like to see the bastard have to work with the GOP if he wants any relevance for the last two years of his first (and only IMO) term.
highhopes on June 11, 2009 at 9:02 AM
The polling numbers are finally indicating that the light bulb is starting to go on in a lot of people’s minds. Unfortunately they are usually standing in the unemployment line when they realize that Obama has just been playing a shell game with them.
Obama and his administration know they are playing games. They now know that the general population knows they are playing games. They simply don’t care that people know. They don’t care that people don’t agree. They don’t care that people are begining to protest. They don’t care that their games are not in the best interest of the majority of the population.
As far as Obama is concerned he won, he has the power, and he will get his way. It simply does not matter to him what WE THE PEOPLE want.
So, what does WE THE PEOPLE do about the situation? Obama fully expects WE THE PEOPLE to do nothing.
Yoop on June 11, 2009 at 9:03 AM
It sounds like a bargain when compared to the $12 million tax dollars per Chinese terrorist it cost us to re-locate them all to a tropical island.
A report yesterday claimed the Chinese are pi$$ed about the re-location. They wanted their native terrorists returned to them. If any of these guys manages to cause trouble for China, it’ll be interesting to see the repercussions . . . .
AZCoyote on June 11, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Maybe we should start sending math flash cards to the White House.
scalleywag on June 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Axelrod is polling like crazy now. He knows the facade is failing. As Obama continues to lose credibility, his rhetoric will be scrutinized more and more closely. Word tricks become percieved as lies. Not good for Barry.
marklmail on June 11, 2009 at 9:06 AM
It’s over. Our once great country is over. A madman is running things. He’s spouting lies. He’s stealing peoples money.He’s destroying our way of life.
The dirty shame of it is this madman will be supported, with all his lies and thievery, by the half of this country that are complete morons. They’ll be aided by sniveling trolls that call themselves “journalists”, and a Hollywood Elite of the most contemptible dirt bags.
Jeff from WI on June 11, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Limbaugh made an interesting point the other day about Obama’s unverifiable saved jobs.
He threw out his own pseudo-factoid that he has saved at least 40 million (not sure of the #) during his 20+ years on the radio. His radio show has helped keep business owners motivated thereby saving millions of jobs over the years that otherwise would have been lost.
It may sound hokey, but it puts Obama’s created or saved 4 million jobs into perspective, doesn’t it?
VibrioCocci on June 11, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Those numbers fell out after his bend-over trip to the ME when he apologized for America. I guess they did use the lube on him after all.
csdeven on June 11, 2009 at 9:10 AM
As the saying goes “People are sheep!”
Obama is banking on it.
It’s wrong, but they’re gonna do it anyway, because they can.
Which is kind of funny because I happen to know a few democrats, and they’ve always hated the republicans for having this exact same attitude about people and policy, but they figured out how to make it work and win, and here they are.
It’s cool cuz it’s them. That’s how they see it.
Oh man, I remember the SCREAMS about how Bush was going to blow up to deficit to oh around 2 TRILLION dollars back in 2002. He’s “EXPLODING!” the deficit, I heard.
Funny, I don’t hear anything like that now. I guess we needed Obama to reach deficit heights BOOOOSH never could reach, but now it’s cool, ya know….
B Man on June 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM
I did not lose my job today, Obama saved it. I could have been fired. He created or saved one job. And tomorrow, if I am not fired, Obama will have saved it again. So he has created or saved 2 jobs. Why is it so hard for conservatives to understand about this?
/sarc
Geochelone on June 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Dead on. I hate to admit it but I am quite surprised that the cover came off this early in his term. I thought for sure there would be a good two years of media/Axelrod spin that would keep the masses in a delirous state. But the rubber has hit the road very quickly. One can listen to the media lies all day long but at the end of the day, the amount of money in your bank account is the reality of your life, not the drama of our Actor-in-Chief.
sherry on June 11, 2009 at 9:12 AM
I was kinda sorta ready to give Obama a chance because I was worn out by the culture wars and I was ready to give these irresponsible back seat drivers a chance to see if they could do better. Yes, I did vote for McCain but I was ready for the country to unite and move forward.
Obama lost me in record time with his patent dishonesty on the stimulus. He claimed that it was an emergency, let Nancy Pelosi write the bill, took 5 days to sign it and the media ignored the fact that most of the money won’t get spent until 2010. The stimulus was particularly poorly designed as a permanent liberal wish list social spending.
Remember kids that only the Fed can act in real time to fight economic cycles.
johnboy on June 11, 2009 at 9:13 AM
If you get fired and kicked to the curb, Obama may have saved your job and it is you seeing the situation incorrectly. He knows better than you do.
seven on June 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Can we count the prison guards in Palau as jobs created? Just wondering.
scorpio9 on June 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM
If you were not layed off or fired since Obama took office, did Obama “save” your job? And If you were counted as “saved” last month, does he get to count you again this month if you don’t get canned?
They still think people are stupid enough to believe this BS.
Bicyea on June 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM
The proverbial “dung will hit the fan” when unemployment benefits run out for the current 600,000 per month losing their jobs. Summertime is a nice time to be chilling on the beach, sucking down a cold one and watching the government checks roll in. When winter rolls around, the checks dry up and there’s still no job on the horizon, people will not be happy little puppies anymore. It’s going to get ugly.
Expect Dumbama to extend benefits to quell the angry mobs.
fogw on June 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM
And don’t forget, Congress didn’t even read the bill. The blame goes to the whole party, not just Obama.
scalleywag on June 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Al Gore created or saved the internet.
Geochelone on June 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM
I think that Limbaugh is making a point. Anyone can make the claim that they’ve saved x number of jobs. As long as that many people still hold a job, you can’t disprove the claim. It’s a hollow argument.
jimmy2shoes on June 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM
As a small business owner I would like to hire more people. But, with the way this administration is so anti-business I can not take the chance until we know just how far the “One” is going to go in destroying capitalism. It’s a shame but I have not paid myself in six months and have an opportunity to grow but my hands are being tied.
HoustonRight on June 11, 2009 at 9:19 AM
I created or saved the job of my invisible friend. Only I can see him. No one can prove it didn’t happen.
Geochelone on June 11, 2009 at 9:19 AM
A lot of the saved jobs are termites that come to work in foreclosed homes that are not getting treatment. They eat wood that will create construction repair work for humans. all in the Central Plans.
seven on June 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Gawd, I hope you’re right.
gryphon202 on June 11, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Willie himself was never so slick
Beto Ochoa on June 11, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Well said and right on target.
We are not getting accurate unemployment numbers anyway:
The Obama butt licking AP even calls bullsh!t on this:
If Mr. “Hope and Change” really cared about transparency
and changing the way things are done on the hill,he would demand that “ALL” the unemployment numbers be included in their assessments and press releases:
Temp work helps mask joblessness among Americans
Jun 5, 6:44 AM (ET)
By FRANK BASS
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090605/D98KFDRO0.html
Combine the highest unemployment in decades to this:
Oil price leaps to year’s high
Predictions of $250 a barrel on fears for oil reserves, hopes of economic recovery and hedging against weak dollar
“China has woken up. The West is a black hole with all this money being printed. The Chinese are buying raw materials because it is a much better way to use their $1.9 trillion of reserves. They get ten times the impact, and can cover their infrastructure for 50 years.”
Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981, a study released Tuesday by the American Institute for Economic Research says.
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar fell to a 2009 low on Friday as fears intensified that the United States could lose its triple-A rating, while renewed caution about the world economy and banks prompted Asian and European stocks to slip.
Under President Barack Obama’s budget plan, the federal debt is exploding. To be precise, it is rising – and will continue to rise – much faster than gross domestic product, a measure of America’s ability to service it. The federal debt was equivalent to 41 per cent of GDP at the end of 2008; the Congressional Budget Office projects it will increase to 82 per cent of GDP in 10 years. With no change in policy, it could hit 100 per cent of GDP in just another five years.
Social Security and Medicare are fading even faster under the weight of the recession, heading for insolvency years sooner than previously expected, the government warned Tuesday. Social Security will start paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes in 2016, a year sooner than projected last year, and the giant trust fund will be depleted by 2037, four years sooner, trustees reported.
Medicare is in even worse shape. The trustees said the program for hospital expenses will pay out more in benefits than it collects this year, just as it did for the first time in 2008. The trustees project that the Medicare fund will be depleted by 2017, two years earlier than the date projected in last year’s report.
Treasury auctions have been a bust and interest rates are hitting around 4% now.
Major inflation is on the horizon.
And what do we get from the “Hope and Change” crowd.
Higher taxes,Higher unemployment,Nationalization of our major business’s and banks,and then blaming everything on Bush.
liberal incompetence in action.
Baxter Greene on June 11, 2009 at 9:25 AM
If I get fired and someone else gets hired in my place . . .
I won’t think of it as a “job saved” . . .
I’ll think of it as a “job screwed.”
Ryan Gandy on June 11, 2009 at 9:25 AM
I would have preferred a 10-day free look period.
ICBM on June 11, 2009 at 9:26 AM
For their next buzzterm, I suggest calling it “jobs supported”. It still sounds helpful, and it has less of a requirement for counting the results.
B Man – you may be right. And how much stuff could he wreck in this first 4 years?
I think the answer to that question may hurt a lot of people for a very long time.
hawksruleva on June 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM
The Teleprompter is making them up.
viking01 on June 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Calm down. Turn off the radio. Take a deep breath…
ladyingray on June 11, 2009 at 9:29 AM
That’s a good number. Termination after 10 days would not qualify him for unemployment insurance benefits.
WashJeff on June 11, 2009 at 9:29 AM
He won’t, that doesn’t go along with the big lie. They’ll keep telling it until 51% do believe it.
3rdpartypatriot on June 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Excellent post. I hope you’re correct.
ladyingray on June 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM
We are paying them… maybe they can count inmates, too? But that’s beside the point. Obama doesn’t even bother to attempt to count, because somewhere in the foggy recesses of his brain, he understands intuitively that this can’t work.
I mean, he’s trying to train people for Green Jobs? I can train you to work in a wind turbine assembly line in about half an hour. Now all you have to do is find a wind turbine assembly plant that’s hiring. In your area, because you can’t sell your house right now.
hawksruleva on June 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM
blatantblue on June 11, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Welcome to how I felt yesterday when they announced Obama was giving Miranda rights to terrorists.
Ryan Gandy on June 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM
I thought after the last apology tour he was declared to BE God.
katablog.com on June 11, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Let’s cut the crap, of course we do. He pulled them out of his ass.
Oldnuke on June 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM
O/T – Mike Gallagher just said that the AMA is going to fight against Obamacare…
ladyingray on June 11, 2009 at 9:35 AM
I personally saved over a million jobs in 2008 by not becoming a terrorist and bombing shopping malls.
whitetop on June 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Interesting how when “da Bush” was president we always heard in the media how “real unemployment” was way higher than official unemployment (which was for most of the time sub 6%, or nearly full employment). The liberals in the media cried “but real unemployment is closer to 10 or 12 percent!”. Funny how I haven’t heard them mention that the real unemployment at this point is “closer to 16 or 18 percent!”. Is that statistic just BS or are they covering for the boss?
3rdpartypatriot on June 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Here’s the U6 data set from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
This includes the much valued “under employed” numbers touted by the media during Republican administrations. According to my calculations, we’ve seen a spike of 17.99% since January.
To be sure, employment numbers are lagging indicators but
I’m holding my breath for the headline bemoaning The Hidden Costs of Obamanomics….
Funny, I searched everywhere but was unable to locate the “saved jobs” data set.
R Square on June 11, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Yes, they can see him. They have figured out how to tax the invisible people, to generate the pretend money that they are spending on pretend projects to generate those pretend jobs that have been created or saved.
The invisible pea is under the middle shell. Bet on it. They promise…
You just need to show some imagination.
Yoop on June 11, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Obummer has created tons of jobs. Have you counted how many Czars are in D.C now? And he’s saved the jobs of all the tax cheats on his cabinet.
dwurst on June 11, 2009 at 9:42 AM
He is actually protecting all us little people whose jobs are threatened by understating the real numbers in order to stave off the flow of illegals into the country, See, that way we get first crack at the hundreds of millions of jobs he is saving and creating with his plan. Whataguy!
/sarc
Miss Molly on June 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM
“Created, Saved, or STOLEN?”
Like “I saved my ex’s life yesterday,,,I controlled myself.”
Rea1ityCheck on June 11, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Since He is driving us all to drink more, he is creating more jobs at the brewery.
scorpio9 on June 11, 2009 at 9:47 AM
It happened in New York. Perhaps it can happen in DC. Maybe some blue dog Dems will reach the panic stage soon when they see the numbers on the wall that predict their re-election potential in 2010.
What would happen if a number decide self-preservation involves crossing the isle and slowing down or halting this madness?
How many purple-state-dems are beginning to sweat blood in private? None, a few, or a lot?
Yoop on June 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM
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