1.7 million new jobs? Bush just said that many new jobs had been created

[patricia92243]

during his administration. I thought jobs were lost. The employment figures for the past three years don't lie. I don't unerstand him saying this. He should know it would be very easy to check out, and he will look like a fool.

Does somebody know something I don't?

[Nite Owl]

1. Well that many new jobs

have been created but he destroyed more and the replacment jobs don't pay as well. It's just like him to not tell the whole truth.

[FloridaPat]

2. I think there for awhile the jobs created in Iraq were counted.

Also, there is some interesting manipulations with the self-employed and how you can't count them, so you make a guess and add them anyway.

[guitar man]

3. Sure there are new "jobs"

I have a friend with dual masters degrees working in the automotive dept. at Wal-Mart. Has been unable to find any work in his field for almost 2 years, lost his home, wife and everything else, but by golly he's employed. :grr:

[mhr]

4. Yes, But 65% Of These Jobs Are Created By A Computer Model

No one knows if the jobs actually exist or not.

Look it up for your self. Do a search on the Birth/Death model run by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[MichiganVote]

5. And we all thought Nixon was a tricky bastard

This is just an example of the way in which Bush failed story problems in school. Failed then, failed the last four years and will fail another four if he is appointed. I'll never believe the guy is elected.

[William Bloode]

6. The way i construe it....

1.7 million jobs very well may have been created, but that does not take into acount the 3 million or so lost. More were lost than were created leaving him as the first president since Hoover to oversee a overall job loss.

Kinda like if your company took in 1.7 million in sale, and did not deduct expenses or salaries that totaled 3 million, and just reported the 1.7 million in sales hoping people listening will assume it's all profit.

[Mindful Monk]

13. This is a big part of it

We need to harp on this point, that the NET job picture is dismal indeed at the juncture. Sure, there are some new jobs, but how many perfectly good OLD jobs were lost? At the end of the day, this administration has negative job growth, and unemployment is up.

Also, there is the issue of the quality of the jobs, whether or not they include health insurance (more Americans are without health insurance than four years ago, this says a lot) or other benefits.

[walldude]

15. lol thats exactly how the government is run... n/t

[TrustingDog]

7. he should check out his abacas for viruses.

[mrdmk]

14. Using an abacus is an art

I think you meant to say, "he should check out his Point and Speak for viruses".

[NewJeffCT]

8. 1.7 million in the past 12 months - still a pathetic number

you need to create - at a minimum - 150,000 jobs per month to keep pace with the growing population. That means, just to net to ZERO on the job creation front, the Bush economy should have created 1.8 million jobs.

[Zinfandel]

9. And i just heard on AAR, President Clinton created over 22.6 million new

jobs throughout his Presidency, BushCo is STILL minus over 1 million (jobs lost). Even if his 1.7 million jobs created statement is indeed correct.

Which is really a backward feat in itself, since over 150,000 new people enter the job market looking for work each month.

[Poiuyt]

10. Jobs are plentiful out there...I know someone who has three!

[ibegurpard]

11. Well, Walmart HAS been expanding like crazy.

:P

[sendero]

12. It's like going to a casino...

.... and losing $10 on a game, and then losing $20 on another, and then winning $10 on the third.

And coming home and telling the wife "I won $10" :)