Bush Jobs Gain Claim Rests on Jobs Not Yet Counted

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With days to go before the presidential election, the Bush administration is trumpeting the creation of nearly 2 million jobs in the past 13 months -- a claim critics say rests on payrolls not yet officially logged by the Labor Department

The expected-but-not-yet-counted jobs underpin a figure President Bush (news - web sites) and his team are using to rebut a charge by Democrats that Bush will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to see a net job loss during his tenure.


Lee Price, research director with the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute and a former chief economist at the Commerce Department (news - web sites), said Treasury chief John Snow -- one of the first to tout 1.9 million jobs created since August 2003 -- is indulging in data inflation.


"He's reaching to lift that number close to 2 million," said Price.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=5&u=/nm/20041026/pl_nm/economy_jobscount_dc

[BattyDem]

1. Jobs? We created lots of jobs ...

they just ... er ... weren't counted yet. That's it ... they weren't counted yet. Yeah, that's the ticket! :eyes:

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Oh, come on, they've created millions of jobs

In India. And Malaysia. And China. And Indonesia...

[struggle4progress]

14. Don't forget that the wealthy will be hiring more nannies and ...

... pooper-scooper operators by using their tax refunds: the Ownership Society really WILL create menial jobs!

[Anakin Skywalker]

17. Great response.

So true too, sadly :(

[sakabatou]

24. Or Poland! Don't forget Poland!

Fuzzy logic indeed.

[UpInArms]

11. those numbers have not only "not been counted"

they have "not been created".

What a load of crap.

[Inland]

2. Bush 2000 election claim rested on votes not counted, too.

[JusticeForAll]

3. Oh this was so perfect a response... n/t!

[JuniorPlankton]

4. Bingo!

[papau]

5. Finally we get a report on the "pretend" jobs that are over half of the

new jobs in the past year.

The "birth/death" numbers that are DOL estimates for the increase in self-employed at home workers will not show up on the payroll data until March of next year - at which point I expect one hell of a cut back in the employed number!

[madrchsod]

6. what jobs????

what new factories? where i work we are at least ten people short but the company won`t hire anyone they just make people work overtime. they would like to hire but they are not sure if their customers are going to increase their orders. everyone is on hold untill the after the election. if bush gets selected again i don`t think my fellow workers and i will see a 40 hr work week for along time or we`ll be unemployed

[maddezmom]

8. ya know the ones on e-bay that cheney talks about

:eyes:

[Parche]

7. jobs

They lose almost 4million jobs, and then gain out of that
almost 2million with a almost 2million job deficit
That is Republican thinking, they think they are doing a good job

[AIJ Alom]

9. Someone should tell them, they can't count jobs that have been outsourced

overseas. otherwise these morons will and claim they didn't know they couldn't.

[DFWJock]

12. New Bush job numbers:

Anyone who has ever held a garage sale or sold anything on ebay is now fully employed.

Woo hoo, we turned the corner!!

[w4rma]

13. They seem to have missed the count of jobs not yet registered as destroyed

Blatant liars. They will say ANYTHING to keep their own jobs.

[Yavin4]

15. If You Pick Up A Penny On The Street

then that's a job.

[Voltaire99]

16. Beats working at Wal-Mart. (n/t)

[VegasWolf]

18. That's the least of it, asshole is spending money that hasn't been made.

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional

[BlueNomad]

19. Hey, You Forgot

Poland... I mean EBAY!

[Demeter]

20. What About the Votes

of little GOPers not yet born, or conceived. We should count them, too.

[The_Casual_Observer]

21. Snow learned about doing this kind of thing as a CEO

of failing companies. He figures that it's really all just bullshit and it doesn't matter anyway, so why not just lie about it.

[Robert Oak]

22. right, those must be the "jobs of the future" we're supposed to train for

[Zayin]

23. Bush's Presidency rests on Florida votes never counted

[bagnana]

25. big deal: even lying, he has the worst jobs record since

Herbert Hoover.

So instead of "he is the first pres. have a net loss of jobs since Herbert Hoover" "even falsely inflating his job numbers, he still has the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover"