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Defend America on Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:34:58 PM
President Obama: “Every Economist from the Left and Right” Says Stimulus Has Saved or Created At Least Two Million Jobs
President Obama veered off script – and away from the facts – when he spoke about the stimulus bill today in Nashua, NH.
“Now,
if you hear some of the critics, they'll say, well, the Recovery Act, I
don't know if that's really worked, because we still have high
unemployment,” the president said. “But what they fail to understand is
that every economist, from the left and the right, has said, because of
the Recovery Act, what we've started to see is at least a couple of
million jobs that have either been created or would have been lost.
The problem is, 7 million jobs were lost during the course of this
recession.”
Um, it’s not true that “every economist” has said the Recovery Act has saved or created two million jobs.
...
The president was originally supposed to say, according to his
prepared remarks, that “I understand why some people are wondering
whether the Recovery Act has really worked. Because while these steps
mean 2 million Americans are working right now who’d otherwise be
unemployed, and our economy is growing again instead of shrinking – and
growing at the fastest rate in 6 years – we lost 7 million jobs during
this recession.”
-Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/02/president-obama-every-economist-from-the-left-and-right-says-stimulus-has-saved-or-created-at-least-.html