The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction.Read today's Wall Street Journal article
"We would never have used a formula like 'save or create,'" he tells me. "To begin with, the number is pure fiction -- the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being 'saved.' And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it."
Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama's jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one -- not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- actually measures "jobs saved." As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama's jobs claims are "based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs." Nice work if you can get away with it.
And get away with it he has.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims
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jobs,
media bias,
Obama,
President,
stimulus,
U.S. jobs,
unemployment
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