{"id":23862,"date":"2011-06-13T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23862"},"modified":"2011-06-13T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T11:59:35","slug":"wasserman-schultz-obama-turned-the-economy-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23862","title":{"rendered":"Wasserman-Schultz: Obama turned the economy around"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

In the event that you missed Meet the Press<\/a> yesterday, you’re probably still laboring under the misconception that the US economy is in the tank. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz claims otherwise;<\/p>\n

REP. SCHULTZ: Because we were able to, under President Obama’s leadership, turn this economy around. When President Obama took office…<\/p>\n

MR. GREGORY: Whoa, whoa, let me just stop you there. Clearly, the economy has not been turned around. I mean, you just saw those numbers.<\/p>\n

REP. SCHULTZ: It, it certainly–it has…<\/p>\n

MR. GREGORY: Americans don’t believe that’s the case.<\/p>\n

REP. SCHULTZ: Well, we, we were–when President Obama took office, the month before he was inaugurated, the economy was bleeding 750,000 jobs a month, David, and we were not headed in the right direction. Now, I know we–and President Obama has said we have a long way to go. We’d like the pace of recovery to, to, to be picked up. But we have definitely begun to turn the economy around. You, you fast-forward two and a half years later now, and the economy has created 2.1 million private sector jobs, a million of those jobs just in the last six months. We’ve had 15 straight months of job growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wasserman-Schultz should consult the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+54,000) in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains continued in professional and business services, health care, and mining. Employment levels in other major private-sector industries were little changed, and local government employment continued to decline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee, I guess that, unlike on the campaign trail, reality doesn’t always match the rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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