Today, I got this article from a conservative friend, who distributed it to about 10 of his friends, including me.
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
Despite a forecast of 160,000 new jobs, the Obama Department of Labor
announced that job creation in May plunged to 38,000, the worst monthly performance in 6 years.
I felt compelled to reply, since I didn’t see it quite the way the article implied. So I wrote the following message back to “Reply All”:
Hello All --
Gee. a moth below projection. I'm not even going to try to explain this number. It's possible it's an anomaly.
But you're right. Obama's record does demand closer scrutiny. Maybe even some facts.
Some illustrations of that record are necessary.
** Let's look at job growth.
Note that in the eight years (2001 through 2009) of the tenure of gWb, a wartime president, America added a total of negative 462,000 jobs. That's an average job loss of 4,812 per month, over 96 months. Heroic effort. Couldn't add jobs even while fighting two wars.
Let's look at the jobs record of the man we love to label a national and international pariah. That communist, socialist, muslim, worse-than-Hitler, gun confiscatin' King of Kenya, Barack Hussein Obama. Let's see, now .... looks like a total of 22,334,00 jobs added over a span of 89 months so far for a monthly average gain of 251,056.
Obama’s tenure has added more jobs each month than twice the population of the city I grew up in. Sad;u. mpt many of those jobs went to that city.
Of course, we might rightly pray for a massive depression to erase these gains from our president’s legacy. For Obama to match gWb's job-creation record, our country would have to lose 3,255,000 jobs per month in the remaining seven months of his term. And that would be one BIG depression, one that presents no hint of occurring on the horizon. Personally, I can't bring myself to pray for such a leveling of the playing field.
Now for some additional texture:
** Unemployment rates under gWb and Obama
I'm still not feeling worse-off
Of course, these statistics must have come at the expense of our friends, big banks and other corporations. So records of corporate profits should tell the tale:
** Corporate profits:
Oops. Corporate profits tripled over the last 89 months. Let’s keep going.
** The stock market:
Uh-oh. The stock market has doubled over the gWb peak, and quadruped over the market that gWb left us in 2009. Oops again.
** Guns:
Guns sold since Obama's assuming office in 2009: more than 100,000,000 (through 12/2015)
Guns confiscated since Obama's assuming office in 2009: Zero (0)
I'm guessing that Fox News has not told this story. To repeat the line at the beginning of this thread:
"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
Since this apparently favorable result cannot be attributed to any particular effort on the part of the government, it must be therefore simply blind luck.
I hope we all have the same great fortune surviving a Trump administration, patiently waiting while he makes America great again. That's when I'll be buying MY guns.
Regards from Your Friend.