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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 25, 2009

Team Obama’s phony “saved or created” jobs announcement has not fooled anyone.

From Rasmussen Reports, To Create Jobs, Voters Say Cut Taxes and Stop Spending:

As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington this year, voters have consistently believed that tax cuts would do more than increased government spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Now that the nation’s unemployment rate has reached 10.2%, voters continue to hold that view.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 62% believe tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment. Only 21% believe that additional stimulus spending is a more effective tool.

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Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters are opposed to a second stimulus package.

Only 31% of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

From CNS News, House Republicans Ask White House to Stop Touting Inaccurate ‘Created or Saved’ Job Numbers:

House Republicans asked the Obama administration to stop touting the number of jobs “saved or created” by the $787 billion economic stimulus law, citing widespread reports that the data are inaccurate. They requested a response from the administration before the Dec. 3 White House “Jobs Summit.”

“The inaccuracy of the job creation and retention claims posted on the Administration’s website, www.recovery.gov, has not prevented administration officials from touting this misleading and inaccurate number as evidence that the president’s stimulus spending package is succeeding even as the unemployment rate continues to rise,” House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio and Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote in a letter to Vice President Joe Biden, who is charged with overseeing the stimulus plan.

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“The reality is that the metric of jobs ‘created or saved’ was invented by politicians, not economists – it cannot be verified as accurate,” the Boehner and Issa letter said.

The nationwide unemployment average has reached 10.2 percent despite the Obama administration’s claims that if the stimulus bill passed it would keep unemployment below 8 percent.

Since the stimulus bill was enacted in February, the United States has lost 2.8 million jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Those job losses increased in 29 states last month, according to the BLS.

A tie today for Obama’s record-breaking all-time approval low… two days in a row at a negative 15 approval (aka “disapproval”) index rating. Click here to see Obama’s presidential approval history and how it has been dropping steadily for months.

Two days in a row at -15... Obama had better start listening to voters or the numbers will drop even further | Rassmussen Reports, presidential approval index for November 25, 2009

From Rasmussen’s “Obama By the Numbers”:

Additional reading:
Gateway Pundit: Obama Tells GOP to Stop Scare Tactics As Dems Agree to Blow Billions More on Another Failed Jobs Creation Plan and House Republicans Ask Team Obama to Quit Repeating ‘Saved or Created’ Nonsense
Motor City Times: Obama ‘Plans To Spend’ Our Way Out Of Recession
Hot Air: Examiner analysis: More than 10% of stimulus jobs are phony and Porkulus job numbers “wildly exaggerated”: Boston Globe? and China hits the mute button on Obama
Right Wing News: What Would Barack Obama’s Approval Rating Look Like Today If He Had Done This?
Mike Flynn, Big Government: Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting
Sacramento Bee: Many California jobs ’saved’ by stimulus funds weren’t in jeopardy
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Big Government: Mr. President, Where Are the Jobs?
VotingFemale Speaks!: Life Sucks for Obama; here is why…
Outside the Beltway: Congress to Investigate Fake Districts
Teh Resistance Blog: I Created or Saved 11 Jobs This Morning
The New Ledger, Big Government: Economy in the Lurch: Negative Interest Rates, the Fed Audit, and Geithner in the Dock and Do the Democrats Have Any Solutions on Jobs? Anything at All?
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Eye-Rolling Time… Obama Now Claims He “Created or Saved One Million Jobs” (video) and Obama’s Disintegrating Economy: Worst Unemployment, at 10.2%, Since 1983… Obama Takes a Mini-Vacation, Still Hasn’t Gone to Fort Hood (video) UPDATE: He Has Gone to Ft. Hood, Finally and Illegal Immigration from Mexico Slowing, Has Dramatically Dropped Because of America’s Plunging Economy and Please Send in Clowns to Replace Obama Morons: Pay Increases Were Counted as Recovery Program’s “Jobs Saved” and Exaggeration Proclamation: Obama’s Economic Plan Overstated, by Thousands, Jobs Claimed Were Created

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