Romney lies.... again. Romney Campaign Massively Downgrades The Number Of Jobs It Claims He Created
Wilde~MoonChild ™
2012/05/14 21:40:30
In the wake of Obama's campaign ad against Romney's campaign changes their talking point...
Article by ThingProgress.org
Excerpt below
In its effort to sell Mitt Romney as someone who understands the economy and knows how to create jobs, one of his campaign’s early talking points was that he helped create 100,000 jobs during his tenure at Bain Capital. The campaign repeated the claim throughout the primary, despite a glaring lack of evidence to support it (even Sarah Palin doubted it).
Romney eventually stopped repeating the talking point, which advisers had difficulty defending under pressure, and now it seems Boston has completely Etch A Sketched the number and severely lowered the number of jobs Romney is supposed to have created at Bain.
BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller reports that, in the wake of the Obama campaign’s new ad attacking Romney’s record at Bain, the “new Romney jobs math” is significantly more modest than the old. This time, the campaign is asserting that Romney created a meager and vague “thousands of jobs” at Bain and “tens of thousands” of jobs as governor of Massachusetts.
This is nothing less than an admission from the Romney campaign that their 100,000 jobs claim was entirely bogus, and acceptance that Romney created vastly fewer jobs than he claimed he had just a few months ago. It’s a welcome return to reality, but calls into question any piece of evidence the campaign puts forward. (In 1994, he claimed in an ad that he created 10,000 jobs at Bain.)
Meanwhile, even the “thousands of jobs” figure should be suspect, as the evidence the campaign offers to support it is an editorial from the right-wing Washington Examiner endorsing Romney. Could the Romney campaign not find a single better piece of evidence — a news article, government data, or economist’s estimate, for instance — than an unsubstantiated opinion article from a paper that is simultaneously declaring that it favors Romney’s election?
And his assertion on his record as governor also fails to include the context that his state was 47th out of 50 on job creation.
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ally 2012/05/14 22:08:54
The man is a joke. A sad pathetic joke that has Republicans gagging. When Obama took office, the economy was shedding jobs at a rate of nearly 1 million jobs per month, losing roughly 3 million during the first four months of 2009. But presidential policies don't take effect as soon as the incoming chief takes his oath. Once Obama's policies started to take effect, the trend turned. The country had added 3.2 million private sector jobs over the course of 22 straight months of private sector growth.
In the 2008 campaign Romney was caught on a few fast ones. There was the story about how he and his dad marched with the late Martin Luther King . Even when the story was debunked he persisted in digging deeper. Mitt Romney routinely ma...
The man is a joke. A sad pathetic joke that has Republicans gagging. When Obama took office, the economy was shedding jobs at a rate of nearly 1 million jobs per month, losing roughly 3 million during the first four months of 2009. But presidential policies don't take effect as soon as the incoming chief takes his oath. Once Obama's policies started to take effect, the trend turned. The country had added 3.2 million private sector jobs over the course of 22 straight months of private sector growth.
In the 2008 campaign Romney was caught on a few fast ones. There was the story about how he and his dad marched with the late Martin Luther King . Even when the story was debunked he persisted in digging deeper. Mitt Romney routinely making statements lacking a factual basis should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the campaign. For some odd reason, Willard throws out numbers and facts that are easily debunked... thinking no one will ever find out.
Do you have a link to information proving the Obama admin didnt? I'd love to see it
Instead, that number shot up to 10.2% and has never been under 8% since.
An average of each job crated cost $200,000 apiece and those continue to be laid off once again every week that goes by.
$5+Trillion added to the National debt in little over three years with nothing to show for it.
How much did each job Romney help to create at Bain cost American taxpayers? $0.00
Kinda fits in nicely, I think.
A Buffett rule that collects $47B over 10 years that equals 11 hours of govt. spending? Get real.
Had the housing market been allowed to bottom out 3 years ago, companies like GM forced into a traditional bankruptcy and the $1Trillion in porkulus spent on the $2.5 Trillion in badly needed infrastructure repairs & upgrades, we would have REALLY recovered sometime in 2011 instead of the faux Recovery Summer 2009 that never happened.
People would have been working on projects that were put off in favor of chasing green energy pipe dreams, union pension bail-outs and extending Federal unemployment for 2 years. Now we sit with the same failing aqueducts, bridges and power grids and nothing has been touched.
Had we started the permits for drilling on Federal lands three years ago, those projects would be up and running now. The only reason oil production is up is the leases that were begun under Bush, and those are producing now.
The BIG LIE that "things could have been worse and he prevented a larger disaster'" are pure BULLSH!T.
For three years we've been sold the glass is half full when all that's happened is he poured it into a smaller cup each January.
First, the depths of the Bush Administration's Recession was grossly underestimated. The figure was based on a projected 3.5% drop in GDP during Bush's last quarter, when the actual figure was a drop of over 8%. In other words, the projection was based on not knowing just how deep the hole Bush dug really was.
Second, the projection was based on the original stimulus proposal which would have added over $1.3 Trillion in stimulus funds. When the Right Wing forced that figure to be cut by a third, the stimulus obviously couldn't accomplish as much as was originally planned.
And you and I both know that the only reason the unemployment rate is still over 8% is the constant obstruction by Congressional republicans of every job creation bill that comes along. The American Jobs Act alone would have added another 2 million jobs, but the Republicans thought that protecting the 340,000 richest Americans from a tax increase of 0.2% AFTER their first million dollars was more important.