April 2, 2010
barry on the stump in Charlotte, North Carolina getting creative with the unemployment numbers.
Even as the 2010 unemployment remains unchanged at 9.7%:
barry: Today is an encouraging day. We’ve learned that the economy actually produced a SUBSTANTIAL number of jobs instead of losing a substantial number of jobs.
Substantial number = 162K with temporary govt census workers accounting for 48K.
Text of video remarks follows
We’ve been through the worst period of economic turmoil since the Great Depression. Keep in mind, when I first took the oath of office, we were already moving towards what some thought was a Great Depression. We were losing about 700,000, 800,000 jobs per month. And the economy was contracting at a pace that we hadn’t seen in generations — about 6 percent contraction that first quarter when I first took office. And I’ve often had to report bad news during the course of this year as the recession wreaked havoc on people’s lives.
Today is an encouraging day. We’ve learned that the economy actually produced a SUBSTANTIAL number of jobs instead of losing a substantial number of jobs.
We are beginning to turn the corner…
As I said, just one year ago, we were losing an average of more than 700,000 jobs each month. But the tough measures that we took — measures that were necessary even though sometimes they were unpopular — have broken this slide and are helping us to climb out of this recession. We’ve now added an average of more than 50,000 jobs each month over the first quarter of this year. And this month’s increase of 162,000 jobs was the best news we’ve seen on the job front in more than two years.
Even as the unemployment rate remains constant.
The truth:
While we’ve come a long way, we still got a ways to go….Eight million people have lost jobs over the past two years. [8.2M] That’s a staggering sum. Economic statistics don’t do justice to the pain and anxiety that results from unemployment…
[Or the anger. Anger continuing to be fueled by barrymedia blaming it on racism, xenophobia, militias, birthers and other assorted crazies and by barry's continued lies.]
So we have to be mindful that today’s job numbers, while welcome, leaves us with a lot more work to do. It will take time to achieve the strong and sustained job growth that we need. And long before this recession hit — for a decade — middle-class families had already been expensing – experiencing a sense of declining economic security. Their paychecks were flat-lining even though the cost of everything from groceries to college educations to health care were all going up. And this means that even as we pull out of this immediate crisis, we’ve got to tackle some of the long-term problems that have been a drag on our economy. And that’s why we’ve been working so hard to turn this economy around.
Doing what?
Stumping and misleading (lying) to the same hand-selected mindless masses?
