Kerry last night in playing his class warfare games puked up a line he’s been toying with on the trail for some months now… Kerry claims this is the first President in 70-some-odd to lose jobs.
Well, let’s blow that outta the water right now;
Let’s look at the “Employment Situation Summary” [1]which is posted on the website of the Labor Dept’s “Bureau of Labor Statistics”. That page shows a total of 139 million people working, about 8 million of which are working more than one job.
Now that 139 million people is more people than we’ve ever had working at any time since we started keeping records of such things, and one presumes, more than at any time not recorded, as well.
How can we have lost jobs, if we have record worker levels?
It gets better. The unemployment rate is listed on this same document as being at 5.4%… which as a matter of history, is fairly low… Bill Clinton’s average over his time in office was 5.6%, for example… and the Democrats are still screaming about how great the employment picture was in those years.
Clearly, what John Kerry claimed doesn’t mesh with the facts.
So, John Kerry lied.
Again.