Here is what President Obama had to say about the Employment Situation in November as posted on the White House Facebook page.
“Over the first 11 months of 2014, our economy has created 2.65 million jobs. That’s more than in any entire year since the 1990s. Our businesses have now created 10.9 million jobs over the past 57 months in a row and that’s the longest streak of private-sector job growth on record.” —President Obama: http://go.wh.gov/43es9V
On Facebook, I remarked:
For the millions of people who are working part time but want to work full time, and the millions of people for whom these new jobs don’t pay anywhere near what their old jobs paid, and for the still unemployed, are they supposed to be excited enough about this to come out and vote in the next election?
This continued tone deafness on the part of the President is what is losing him many supporters. What are the suffering people supposed to think, when the President seems to continue to believe that the situation they are living just does not exist?
Every time the President holds one of these news conferences, he loses thousands of former supporters. I have always been a strong proponent of the President speaking more often about what he has accomplished, but these appearances cannot continue to only tout what is in the imagination of the President, but what is totally missing from what the people see in their own lives.
The link posted above goes to a White House web site page The Employment Situation in November. this page highlights five key points in the day’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I gave them the following feedback on that page.
In the key points, where is the recognition of all the part-time employees who want to work full time? Where is the recognition that these newly created jobs do not pay nearly as much as the lost jobs? Where is the recognition of the people who still cannot find work?
All this pretending that the news is great without any recognition of what is not great is a sure way to turn people off. No wonder so many voters failed to come out in the last election in support of the President’s “accomplishments”