NY Daily News | Obama is Fooling No One with Positive Spin on Limp Job Numbers

Posted on May 06 2012 – 5:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady

For the second straight month, President  Obama is spinning pathetically weak job data as “good news.” Who is he  kidding?

The economy added a measly 115,000 jobs in April. At that poky rate, we  wouldn’t fully bounce back from the Great Recession until the presidential  election in 2016.

And the only reason unemployment inched down to 8.1% was that another  342,000 Americans gave up looking for jobs and dropped out of the workforce  completely. Miserable.

Obama can’t sugarcoat an economy that has limped along badly on his watch,  consigning 12.5 million Americans to unemployment.

The major crisis and downturn that began in 2008 are no excuse for such a  lethargic recovery.

And as Obama asks for a second term, what is his domestic economic agenda?  Just campaign talking points about lowering college loan rates, posturing  against an alleged war on women and flogging a Buffett Rule that would barely  put a dent in skyrocketing deficits.

More.

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