Painful Truth about Jobs, Unemployment, Obama’s Czars, & Overspending… We’re at the Crossroads, America (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 5, 2012
Curmudgeon at Political Clown Parade has created a disturbing video that summarizes, bullet point by bullet point, what the Obama administration has done to destroy our gem of a nation in just three years… America Stands at a Crossroads.
It’s “hopenchange havoc,” and we’re dangerously teetering on the edge of the precipice of disaster.
From the video:
For those of us who truly love America, it is incredibly heartbreaking to witness what is now happening to the great nation that our forefathers built.
More comfortless facts — the ugly truth exposed:
…While Obama is bragging that he added 3.7 million news jobs, the reality of the situation is that 4.4 million jobs have simply disappeared from the United States of America since Obama became President.
A total of 4.7 million people have stopped looking for work since the Inauguration of President Obama. Added to the 12.7 million, the total of unemployed is 17.4 million without work, or about 11%.
Watch the video. Share it. Discuss it. Watch it again.
November is coming, boys and girls — but not fast enough.
America Stands At A Crossroads
About all those gazillion taxpayer-funded “green jobs” promised by the Current Occupier, Gateway Pundit reports on the dismal, “who saw this coming?” results — Government Spent Half a Billion on Green Jobs Training – Only 10% of Trainees Find Jobs:
They might as well have flushed the money down a toilet.
The government spent half a billion dollars on green jobs training – Only 10% of those trained found jobs.
Herald.net reported:
Government-funded training for so-called green jobs has come to a near standstill in Snohomish County, having produced lackluster results.
Over the past few years, about 500 residents in the county attended short-term training programs with the hope of landing one of 25,000 or more green jobs expected to be needed in the state by 2020.
So far, 95 of those 500 students have found jobs.
WorkForce Development Council of Snohomish County, which oversees training under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, recently put a hold on sending more people through the training program, which had a job placement rate of about 20 percent.
That’s still a higher placement rate for green-job training programs than the national rate, which is about 10 percent, according to a recent U.S. Department of Labor audit.
More unsettling facts reported by The Other McCain, How Obama Has Corrupted the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Tyler Durden digs down and discovers that the BLS understates the labor force by 5 million people, so it can report an 8.3 percent unemployment rate instead of the actual 11.5 percent rate. Furthermore — do they really think we’re this stupid? — the BLS reported that the labor force decreased by 1.2 million people in a single month.
This is the kind of blatant manipulation of government statistics we used to see from the Soviet Union, in its effort to convince the world that socialism worked. And the similarity may not be accidental, eh?
Another must-read at Motor City Times: How Obama admin is skewing data, creating illusion of falling jobless numbers.
From Spellchek, President Obama – where have the 6,851,000 jobs gone?:
Directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Table A, Household Data. The number not in the labor force. January 2012 – 87,874 (in thousands). The number from January 2009 when Obama took office – 81,023 (in thousands). Subtract the difference and we get 6,851 (in thousands).
It means we have 6,851,000 less people working today than we had when Obama took responsibility. Nearly 7 million less Americans working (and paying taxes) today than just 3 short years ago. Obama can’t dispute those numbers because they’re from his own agency, the same one he uses to promote the unemployment rate number. He can claim his stimulus created millions of new jobs but the numbers don’t support it.
The GOP better get it together quick and start harping on the relevant numbers everyday so the squishy middle gets it before election day.
Disclaimer – all of these numbers are BLS numbers which are highly suspect based upon their methodology. However, it helps to use the same source Obama is citing when refuting his claims.
Source – http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm
Source – http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_02062009.htm
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You’re sweet to check on me after I’ve been absent so long. Thanks for the linky love, Vicki. Hope you enjoy the Superbowl today!
You, too, darling Robot! Have missed you and your spot-on, impish posts.
Thanks a ton for linking. I’m hoping more people will start referencing the employment rate.
Thanks again, Vicki, for spotlighting my latest video creation. You’re a doll.