Media Celebrate 'Good' September Jobs Number, But Obama's Still 6.2 Million Short of Promise
The media said there was "good" but "not great" news on the unemployment front in September with 103,000 jobs added, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate remained 9.1 percent.
But even with that growth, Obama's jobs promises have fallen far short. His economic policies were supposed to create 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Now, ten months later the economy is still dealing with net job losses of 2,229,000 since February 2009.
Adding to that the 4 million promised jobs and Obama's administration is 10 months late and 6,229,000 jobs shy of meeting its job creation claims. With slightly over a year left in his term, America would have to average about 390,000 new jobs every month for Obama to see that many jobs created.
Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog noticed that even with the uptick in job growth in September, when seasonally adjusted, jobs are trending downward.
Unemployment is a huge concern for Americans right now. In September, Gallup found that it overtook "the economy" as "the most important problem facing this country today."
The president has been campaigning to spend another $447 billion to fix the jobs problem, after his first $787 billion stimulus failed to solve the unemployment crisis.
In September, the 9.1 percent unemployment rate was rarely mentioned in 'jobs' stories on the network news.
The Business & Media Institute analyzed 79 stories on the broadcast evening news programs that mentioned "job" or "jobs" between Sept. 1 and Sept. 26 and found only 18 (23 percent) of them actually mentioned the 9.1 percent rate or said that unemployment was above 9 percent. Stories about "job" approval, people doing their "job" and other non-economic references were not counted.
Just as the networks have downplayed the high unemployment and looked for hopeful signs on jobs during much of the Obama presidency, reporters continued to find "good news" about unemployment to talk about last month.
CBS "Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley shared "a little bit of good news on jobs" on Sept. 7, 2011. He led into a report about Obama's proposed jobs plan by optimistically reporting that in July there were 3.2 million job openings posted by employers. "That's the most in nearly three years," Pelley said without noting the huge shortfall between available jobs and the roughly 14 million who were unemployed in August.
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And 45,000 of those jobs are
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:44pm.
And 45,000 of those jobs are accounted for by Verizon strikers going back to work.
*Drudge link
I guess those count as "jobs saved" LOL
Stupid
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:08pm.
So, lets see....
It's August 2012............unions go on massive strikes.................2 million people.
September - 1 million go back to work, i.e. 1 million jobs created, reported October 5
October - 1 million go back to work, i.e 1 million jobs created, reported November 5
November 6, election day.
It's ironic
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 1:07pm.
It's ironic that the same government bureau that never counted those striking members as unemployed now count them as new hires. SOMEONE is playing games with the employment figures.
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The Great Prevaricator
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:36pm.
Obama lies, jobs die.
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Let's do the calc
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 2:14pm.
A - To Convert that to percentage
(1) 103,000 / 62,000,000 = 0.00166129032258064516129032258065
(2) 0.00166129032258064516129032258065 * 100 = 0.16612903225806451612903225806452 %
B - Divide that percentage (0.16612903225806451612903225806452/30) by 30 months in Office to get the monthly percentage claimed to be obtained. A monthly average obtained over 30 months.
(1) 0.16612903225806451612903225806452/30 = 0.00553763440860215053763440860215
C - Take that amount and divide it into 62,000,000 to get how long on the current path to fill all the jobs in months.
(1) 62,000,000 / 0.00553763440860215053763440860215 = 11,557,281,553.398058252427184466019 months
That is 11,557,281,553.398058252427184466019 months or 963,106,796.11650485436893203883495 years to reach the goal as stated.
Conclusion - So the way we're going we'll reach the promised land in just a tad over 963 million years. Pretty sure about the calculations here.
mystified again
Submitted by mandrake on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 3:03pm.
What is with this strange belief that a president can somehow 'create' jobs? Just how many interns can one president hire? Well maybe check with Clinton on that. ;)
I have seen
Submitted by Bob K on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 3:08pm.
a very noticable lack of threads on monthly job growth at leftist websites in the past year. They REALLY avoid bringing the subject up. LOL
Good news???
Submitted by KornKing on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 4:26pm.
U.S. Economy needs to generate 500,000 new jobs per month to be in "growth mode"
I would not hold my breath
Submitted by jkwtrading on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 8:41pm.
I would not hold my breath for Obama to ever admit he is behind on the job growth. I would expect him to lie though.
I don't think in all my 60 years I've seen one person a big of liar as he is.