Obama Regime cooked the books on # jobs c/s

[RedRock]

So, the Obama Regime cooked the books on the number of jobs estimated to have been "created or saved" (their words) due to their "stimulus" bill (again, their words).

biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/04/19/white-house-caught-altering-stimulus-baseline-projection-by-7-million-jobs/

snippet:

White House Caught Altering Stimulus Baseline Projection by 7 Million Jobs
by Capitol Confidential

The number of jobs in the U.S. is currently 129.7 million. So to justify the Administration’s current claim of 2.8 million jobs “created or saved” by stimulus, they need to also claim that without that stimulus there would be only 126.9 million jobs. That’s exactly what they do, displayed as the “baseline projection” level in the graphic below from an April 14, 2010 report: (see link)

An inconvenient truth, at least for the Obama Administration, is that once upon a time, in their January 2009 Romer/Bernstein Report they told America that without their stimulus there would be 133.9 million jobs. That’s right, in order to make it look like their stimulus has “created or saved” 2.8 million jobs, the Obama Administration first had to whack 7 million jobs from their previous estimates.

Wow, I'm shocked! Obama lie and/or falsely manipulate data? No, it can't be. Not the Messiah! Heavens, what's the world coming to?

[Death's Shadow]

Go figure, Obama lied. Not surprised in the least.

[Lamron]

The unemployment numbers are all lies too. They only count people actually receiving unemployment benefits. After those run out they don't count you anymore. You're no longer "unemployed", you're just someone "without a job". The number of people "without a job" is MUCH higher than the numbers they're reporting.