{"id":10757,"date":"2011-08-05T10:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2011-08-05T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:35:54","slug":"obama-spokesman-the-white-house-doesnt-create-jobs-you-can-say-that-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10757\/obama-spokesman-the-white-house-doesnt-create-jobs-you-can-say-that-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Spokesman: &#8220;The White House Doesn\u2019t Create Jobs.&#8221; You Can Say That Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare moment of candor yesterday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/08\/04\/carney_the_white_house_doesnt_create_jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\">admitted<\/a>, &#8220;the White House doesn&#8217;t create jobs.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s a refreshing contrast from Obama&#8217;s previous <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/07\/14\/obama-advisers-says-stimulus-saved-or-created-three-million-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;jobs saved or created&#8221;<\/a> nonsense, but he can certainly say that again.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Labor Department reported that unemployment remained essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">unchanged<\/a> last month at 9.1%, with only 117,000 new jobs created.\u00a0 Keep in mind that the economy needs approximately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-08-05\/payroll-gain-in-u-s-was-probably-too-small-to-cut-unemployment.html?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\">125,000 new jobs per month<\/a> <em>just to keep the unemployment rate steady<\/em>, and 200,000 per month to reduce the rate by a single percentage point over an entire year.\u00a0 In other words, the economy continues to create far too few jobs to significantly reduce the unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p>Also keep in mind that Obama promised in February 2009 that if we passed his &#8220;stimulus,&#8221; unemployment would top out at 8% back in the fall of 2009, and be down to around 6% by now.\u00a0 Instead, we have witnessed a post-war record number of consecutive months at or above 9% unemployment.\u00a0 Over the same 30-month period that have passed since Obama&#8217;s &#8220;stimulus&#8221; promise, Ronald Reagan&#8217;s policies <a href=\"http:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/LNS14000000\" target=\"_blank\">reduced unemployment<\/a> from 10.4% to 7.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The White House may not create jobs, Mr. Carney, but history shows that its policies can foster growth or, in your case, wreak havoc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare moment of candor yesterday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney admitted, &#8220;the White House doesn&#8217;t create jobs.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s a refreshing contrast from Obama&#8217;s previous &#8220;jobs saved or created&#8221; nonsense, but he can certainly say that again. Today, the Labor Department reported that unemployment remained essentially unchanged last month at 9.1%, with only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2927,27,24,18,44,2928],"class_list":["post-10757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-carney","tag-jobs","tag-obama","tag-unemployment","tag-white-house","tag-white-house-doesnt-create-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}