{"id":24889,"date":"2015-01-28T12:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24889"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:42:24","slug":"the-economic-recovery-in-real-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24889","title":{"rendered":"The Economic Recovery In Real Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politichicks.com\/2015\/01\/real-facts-obamas-alleged-economic-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Politichicks<\/a> posted an article today with some of the economic numbers <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama<\/a> seems to have omitted from his State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n<p>The article reminds us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>While it might be true that businesses have created 11 million jobs (not Obama), what President Obama fails to mention is that he has been in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Office\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">office<\/a> 6 years and during his first year in office the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Economy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">economy<\/a> lost over 4 million jobs. Even with the new jobs created, at best, the economy has created a net amount of 7 million jobs <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Private sector\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Private_sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">private sector<\/a> jobs. However, due to the fact that there has also been a loss in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Public sector\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">government jobs<\/a>, under President Obama there has been a creation of, at most, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2015\/01\/factchecking-obamas-state-of-the-union\/\">6.4 million jobs<\/a> during his time in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>What President Obama and most media outlets also failed to mention is that in order to keep up with population growth, the economy needs to create at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052970203388804576616623595067228\">125,000 jobs per month<\/a> or 9,000,000 jobs in the 72 months since President Obama took office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The current <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Labor force\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">labor force participation rate<\/a> is 62.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/web\/empsit\/cpseea01.htm\">7%,<\/a> which matches the lowest rate on record. The lowest rate on record was set in September 2014.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Since the beginning of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Great Recession\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Recession\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Great Recession<\/a> (2008), only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/web\/empsit\/cpseea01.htm\">943,000<\/a> more people are employed, but the number of individuals over the age of 16 has grown by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/web\/empsit\/cpseea01.htm\">14,159,000<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Worker\u2019s wages have stayed stagnated. In <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Constant dollars\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constant_dollars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">constant dollars<\/a> (dollars adjusted for inflation), worker\u2019s wages have actually<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/wkyeng.t01.htm\"> decreased<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Consumer price index\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consumer_price_index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Consumer Price Index<\/a> has increased by 11.<a href=\"http:\/\/inflationdata.com\/Inflation\/Inflation_Rate\/HistoricalInflation.aspx\">2%<\/a> since President Obama took office, even with the price of energy dropping by almost half.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The truth of the matter is that we have endured the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052702303816504577311470997904292\">worst economic recovery<\/a> on record and much of it is due to President Obama\u2019s policies. Even with the millions of new jobs that have been created and the fact that people\u2019s confidence in the economy is increasing, we still have a long way to go to reach pre-recession economic levels and if President Obama keeps pushing his big government policies, we may never get there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Somehow none of the above was mentioned in the State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politichicks posted an article today with some of the economic numbers President Obama seems to have omitted from his State of the Union speech. The article reminds us: While it might be true that businesses have created 11 million jobs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24889\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,1659,460,8122,6251],"class_list":["post-24889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-business","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-great-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24890,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24889\/revisions\/24890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}