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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsnewt lies outright on meet the press. david gregory sits there mute.
gingrich "Obama has the worse unemployment record of any president since the great depression"
lying motherfucker
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oldhippie
(3,249 posts)Does public (govt worker) unemploymnet not count?
What's the total number? Or does that makes us look bad?
Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)from the January that they took office to the December when the left office, the last five presidents
Reagen 7.5 to 5.3 - a net positive gain of 2.2
HWB 5.4 to 7.4 - a net negative less of 2.0
Clinton 7.3 to 3.9 - a net negative gain of 3.4
GWB 4.1 to 7.3 - a net negative of 3.2
BO 7.8 to 8.1 (April of this year) - a net negative of .03.
Both Bushes were demonstratively worse, and it is not even close. AND, it is not even taking into account the absolute disaster that BO took over midstream that he had NO responsibility for.
[link:http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet|
This is the reason the Rs will never go away. They simply make up things as they go along and even the supposed cream of the crop "liberal media" types let it go unchallenged, only to become accepted fact after it gets repeated enough.
These numbers are from the US Department of Labor.
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)This is a good article to use to combat that.
What Newt is saying is only true if the economy goes back into the crapper. Obama has done great in private sector jobs, but the public sector job loss is a result of the budget cuts the repukes have hammered on and the Dems went along with.
Newt is basically full of shit.
WingDinger
(3,690 posts)"I dont think it is the responsibility of the press, to ask the hard questions."
Peregrine Took
(7,413 posts)He's like a baby chick around them.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He never disappoints in that regard.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Yes, yes I shall. Buh-bye. Buh-bye. Bye. Buh-bye. I could go on for hours and hours. I likely will.