One sentence, two lies
Posted on June 2nd, 2004 by
From a Q&A with Bush-Cheney campaign chairman Marc “Mom, the other kids are being all negative and stuff” Racicot last week:
The actual job loss began before this president became president. The recession actually started before this president became president. … Well, the official celebration [sic] of the recession is March ’01 but the job loss began before ’01.
| Year/Month | Jobs added/lost | 2000-05 | +171,000 | 2000-06 | +11,000 | 2000-07 | -51,000 | 2000-08 | -59,000 | 2000-09 | +195,000 | 2000-10 | +66,000 | 2000-11 | +53,000 | 2000-12 | +19,000 | 2001-01 | +268,000 | 2001-02 | +140,000 | 2001-03 | -86,000 |
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Close, but not quite. (IOW: Sadly, No!)
Thanks to Blair for the link to the Racicot interview.
6 million jobs up or 2 million jobs down – what’s the difference?