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From the Wall Street Journal: “White House Tiptoes Around Specific Jobs Number.”
President Barack Obama has had a lot to say in recent days about his new jobs package, though he’s tough to pin down on one important fact: the number of jobs it will create.
Private economists have offered a wide range of estimates, with some saying the plan would have little impact and with others saying it could create between 1.3 million and 1.9 million jobs next year. The White House has avoided offering a public forecast. An earlier prediction that the 2009 stimulus package would hold the unemployment rate below 8% still haunts the administration. The unemployment rate is now 9.1%.
“We just don’t do official job estimates,” Jack Lew, Mr. Obama’s budget director, said this week. Mr. Obama’s jobs plan, he emphasized, will have a positive impact on GDP and job growth.
Can’t blame them. Wouldn’t want a repeat of this:
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martin j smith| 9.16.11 @ 11:41AM
For me the bottom line is simply this: This Obama person Hates US. And, thus refuses to deal with genuine folks in the private sector. Taking aside his crony capitalist buddies, Obama refuses for example to think for a fraction of a fraction of second expanding or growing our economy. He refuses to consider this scenario. All of his "programs" amount to growing the government. The Obama does not do "free enterprise capitalism" what does do in Crony Capitalism as practiced by the USSR or in Nazi Germany. That is who Obama really is.
Pecos Pete| 9.16.11 @ 2:15PM
MJS: Agreed. Trillions of dollars have disappeared due to King O's policies. I sure didn't get any, how about you?
W.L.| 9.17.11 @ 12:12AM
MJS and PP:
You are both correct. There is no other scenario that fits reality....other than that which you have stated.
Bravo...and THANK the good Lord that I am not the only one who sees it...
It just gets to me to see others skirt around the issue or try and find some rationale in the things this man does...
The worst part about his actions...is that he takes advantage of the fact that about 45% of the population OR MORE...is too blind, brainwashed, or mentally controlled to see it...OR....admit that they see it.....OR WORSE...ALLOW themselves to come to terms with what they see...
And that...is a President who is working on the inside to take the ship down.
Occam's Tool| 9.17.11 @ 8:51PM
Yes---Obama's policies snap brilliantly into focus if you think of him as a subtle traitor.