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As all of you no doubt know by now, the June jobs report emerged like a huge smelly -- well -- pile of defecation:
Nonfarm payrolls rose only 18,000, the weakest reading since September, the Labor Department said on Friday, well below economists' expectations for a 90,000 rise.
The unemployment rate climbed to a six-month high of 9.2 percent, even as jobseekers left the labor force in droves, from 9.1 percent in May.
Yessir, folks, for the umpteenth time, The Pantload's laser-like focus on the economy has yielded and employment picture somewhat akin to a still life of crap on toast. But the real howler was a statement by one of Obama's clown troupe, David Plouffe:
President Obama’s senior political adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday that people won’t vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate.
Plouffe should probably hope that’s the case, since dismal job figures aren’t expected to get any better for Obama and the economy on Friday.
Most economists expect a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to show that the nation added about 100,000 jobs in June. That’s not enough to keep up with population growth, let alone lower the unemployment rate or make a dent in the 9 million jobs lost during the so called Great Recession.
The article sure does not blow any sunshine up The Chicago Jesus's skirt as it goes on to say:
It’s looking more and more like Obama will have to do something no president has done since Franklin Roosevelt: Win reelection with unemployment around 8 percent.
Ronald Reagan, another president Obama is sometimes compared with, was reelected in 1984 when unemployment was 7.2 percent. Obama isn’t likely to see a number that low.
Maybe he should have checked with Joltin' Joe "Gaff-o-Matic" Biden before he mouthed off.
Also the word out on the bricks is that Plouffe's remarks -- aside from being mumbled by lips attached to a head firmly inserted into his rectum -- were a grevious insult to the 14+ millions who are looking for work. Me? Personally, I think it's time that Obama just flat submit his resignation and retire to pasture with Moo-Chelle where he can write books and play the Jimmah Carter "coulda-woulda-shoulda" game.
I'd say quit winners but the guy has been a loser since day one.
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