In Saturday's weekly address (taped ahead of time), US President Barack Obama declared, "Our mission isn't just to put people back to work -- it's to rebuild an economy where that work pays; an economy in which everyone who works hard has the chance to get ahead."
That's a mission? Just now that's a mission?
In the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, there was an economic meltdown in the country. And only now is Barack on a mission?
Make no mistake, he rushed to rescue the financial institutions before he was even elected -- he strong-armed the Congressional Black Caucus into supporting the bail-out. He just never did a damn thing for home owners and workers.
It's not like he wasn't hearing that he needed to focus on the economy. Rahm Emanuel stressed that day after day until he left the White House and became mayor of Chicago. Rahm was ignored time and again.
Barack wanted to give the insurance companies a gift: ObamaCare. Half the country hates it, half the country loves it. That's the results all these years later.
He wasted all that time and all that energy on providing Americans with crap. It's not single-payer, it's not universal. It does nothing but take your ability to buy insurance and turn it into your responsibility by law to buy insurance.
Friday, the US Labor Dept. released the latest jobs report. Another bad month with high unemployment (8.2% being the official figure).
Back in June 2009, Joe Biden was saying "we guessed wrong." And apparently never bothered to guess again.
And now another bad jobs report finds Barack again downplaying the unemployment and his own failures. The Mitt Romney campaign issued a press release Friday:
Today, the Obama Administration told Americans “not to read too much into” monthly jobs reports.
As it turns out, they’ve been encouraging Americans to do that for years. But after 41 straight months of unemployment over 8%, you don’t have to read between the lines to see the truth. President Obama’s policies have failed to get America working again.
June 2012: “Therefore,
it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it
is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that
are becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/07/06/employment-situation-june)
May 2012: “Therefore, it
is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is
helpful to consider each report in the context of other data that are
becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/06/01/employment-situation-may)
April 2012: “Therefore,
it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it
is helpful to consider each report in the context of other data that are
becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/04/employment-situation-april)
March 2012: “Therefore,
it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, and it
is helpful to consider each report in the context of other data that
are becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/04/06/employment-situation-march)
February 2012: “Therefore,
as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too
much into any one monthly report; nevertheless, the trend in job market
indicators over recent months is an encouraging sign.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/09/employment-situation-february)
January 2012: “Therefore,
as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too
much into any one monthly report; nevertheless, the trend in job market
indicators over recent months is an encouraging sign.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/02/03/employment-situation-january)
December 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/06/employment-situation-december)
November 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/02/employment-situation-november)
October 2011: “The
monthly employment and unemployment numbers are volatile and employment
estimates are subject to substantial revision. There is no better
example than August’s jobs figure, which was initially reported at zero
and in the latest revision increased to 104,000. This illustrates why
the Administration always stresses it is important not to read too much
into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/11/04/employment-situation-october)
September 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/07/employment-situation-september)
August 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/02/employment-situation-august)
July 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/08/05/employment-situation-july)
June 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/07/08/employment-situation-june)
May 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/03/employment-situation-may)
April 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/06/employment-situation-april)
March 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/01/employment-situation-march)
February 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/03/04/employment-situation-february)
January 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/02/04/employment-situation-january)
December 2010: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/01/07/employment-situation-december)
November 2010: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/12/03/employment-situation-november)
October 2010: “Given the
volatility in monthly employment and unemployment data, it is important
not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/11/05/employment-situation-october)
September 2010: “Given
the volatility in the monthly employment and unemployment data, it is
important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/10/08/employment-situation-september)
July 2010: “Therefore,
it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report,
positive or negative. It is essential that we continue our efforts to
move in the right direction and replace job losses with robust job
gains.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/08/06/employment-situation-july)
August 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/09/03/employment-situation-august)
June 2010: “As always, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/02/employment-situation-june)
May 2010: “As always, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/04/employment-situation-may)
April 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/07/employment-situation-april)
March 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/02/employment-situation-march)
January 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/05/employment-situation-january)
November 2009: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/04/employment-situation-november)