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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Video: Obama Promised Us Jobs. So where are they?

From Publius Forum on YouTube:
Remember back in those hoary days of 2008 when The Obammesiah promised he'd create "5 million jobs"? So, what happened? Where are all those new jobs, anyway?
Obama did promise a whole bunch of new jobs. Let's just check out that success, shall we? The below graph represents the gross numbers of able-bodied workers, in thousands, outside the workforce and no longer looking for jobs:

The numbers on the abscissa are in the thousands. The data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Note the star. That represents when the stimulus boondoggle was passed. And here are the jobs numbers:
How is Obama and his ilk saying with straight faces that the stimulus worked, exactly? There is absolutely no indication in the data that it did anything other than waste money.







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