The good news:
Obama’s hand puppet Jay Carney
lied his ass off said this week that the Obama administration has created 7.2 million private-sector jobs since it took office. The bad news: 15 million more Americans have been added to the food stamp rolls during the same period. Oh, SNAP. (SNAP is the acronym for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which replaced “food stamps.” And yes, the pun was intended.)
Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. of CNS News summarized the statistics:
“And what is absolutely true is that we have come a long way since the depths of the Great Recession. We’ve created over 7.2 million private sector jobs,” Carney told reporters at a press briefing.Here’s what Mr. Carney didn’t say:At the end of January 2009, 32,204,859 Americans received aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As of April 2013, there were 47,548,694 Americans on food stamps. [SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]There are 15 million more Americans on food stamps today than when Obama assumed office.That means that more than two Americans have been added to the food stamp rolls for every one job the administration says it has created.
If you happened to be like vacationing IRS official Lois Lerner and are “not good at math” 15 million is more than twice as much as 7.2 million. Hence, the “two more people on food stamps” than “found jobs” stat.
In addition, 2.5 million of the “jobs created”‘ to which Carney referred are part-time; as a separate figure, 2.7 million of those “jobs created” are temps, – a 50% increase over Obama’s time in office.
Furthermore, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 154,526,000 in the Civilian Labor Force in February 2009 and in June 2013 there were 155,835,000. That would be a net gain of 1.309 million more people working civilian jobs. The labor force participation rate of 63.5% is hovering at the lowest levels since late 1978.
Math sucks, huh Jay?
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