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Hey Anderson, a lot of things were said this evening making fact checkers everywhere
very very very busy but there was one cornerstone claim of the Democrats
It has been said so many times in the past few weeks you cannot count it.
And tonight they pounded it like a nail
that president obama has created more than four million jobs
since taking
office listen.
today our economy
has gone from losing eight hundred thousand jobs a month
to adding four and a half million private-sector jobs in the last
twenty-nine months
who added 4.5 million
private-sector jobs
in the last two and a half years we've seen 4.5 million new jobs
so it's clear the claim is the president created 4.5 million new jobs
since taking office. The problem here
is not in the math,
more than four million jobs have been created what is missing here is
context. Yes and context is everything. Now Rahm Emanuel said it right. He used those
crucial words private sector that makes the verdict on this technically true
So let me just show everyone the math. Tom and I went through this. Jobs added
private-sector jobs during this administration four point five million
indeed is the right number the problem is is as we all know, there were many
jobs lost in fact there were five million private-sector jobs lost so net
jobs lost private-sector five hundred thousand now it actually... again private sector
the crucial word because if you actually look at other jobs including government
jobs the picture is actually much worse in terms of net loss we are still
one point one million jobs in the hole under this administration and Tom
another thing uh... tonight when you look at this in terms of the unemployment
rate so many people asking, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
We all heard Governor O'Malley from Maryland with that stumble this weekend
well when you look at the unemployment picture which is the center of this whole
election the answer is categorically we are not if you look at when the
president took office and a lot of the jobs that we have gotten back
are not necessarily the ones that you want. They're not the same ones. Now were looking at
selective numbers to begin with but when you look at the job we got back
it's important to remember some of the jobs that were gained me in this first
administration or the first uh... term here
were temporary jobs they were jobs that were spurred by stimulus money or maybe
by census work that sort of thing they're not jobs that lasted they still
counted as jobs
but more importantly
there've been surveys out there that indicated that somewhere around eighty
percent of the jobs that have been lost
in this recession and afterward
were middle
to high wage jobs
and about sixty percent of the jobs we gained are low-wage jobs so it's not just that
we lost jobs and got some jobs back, but the job we got back generally are not on
par with the ones we lost. And Tom said this because that means something crucial
that the first lady said is not necessarily true here's her claim
That's how he brought our economy from the brink
of collapse to creating jobs again jobs you can raise a family on good jobs right here
in the united states of america
Yeah, I'm sure there are many families that will say any job is a good job right now
but they are not as good as the jobs that were lost by and large look at the
numbers look at the fact that's what shows up
that's right that's our verdict there on that crucial charge tonight