Rush Limbaugh’s Latest Conspiracy: The Latest Unemployment Numbers Are Fake
This today is as illegitimate — this 5.9 percent number is even more illegitimate than the 7.9 percent number [in October, 2012]. There’s no way that this country has an economy producing jobs with an unemployment rate of 5.9 percent. It just isn’t happening. Take a look around. There’s a reason Obama’s having to do speeches and tell people the economy’s going great, you just don’t feel it. They don’t feel it because it isn’t real.
No, the reason the president is giving speeches on the robust nature of the economy is because it’s true, and because he’s a politician one month away from a midterm election. But there’s another major reason why some Americans might not be “feeling it” — it’s because flimflam artists and members of the conservative entertainment complex whose personal fortunes rely upon relentlessly fabricating conspiracy theories about the White House have been selling a bogus narrative about the Obama economy. Limbaugh did it right there, in that quote. Not a single damn number to back up he claim that “it just isn’t happening” — and lying in the face of overwhelming evidence and basic logic.
First, the overwhelming evidence. The economy has grown, with the exception of one quarter, for the last five years. Manufacturing is at its highest rate in a decade. In the wake of the worst recession since the 1930s, ten million jobs have been created. The Dow has climbed from the sewer to the stratosphere, peaking above 17,000 — unimaginable just three years ago. Millions of Americans now own affordable health coverage. The American auto industry is enjoying record profits after having nearly collapsed. The drop in unemployment has topped President Reagan’s record in spite of the fact that baby-boomers are retiring and dropping out of the labor force. And throughout it all, the budget deficit has dropped by nearly a trillion dollars.
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By: Bob Cesca
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12 responses to Rush Limbaugh’s Latest Conspiracy: The Latest Unemployment Numbers Are Fake
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mrbigstuff October 7th, 2014 at 08:22
I’m totally shocked that Rush would say such things,Gotta go now and get my guns Isis with Ebola that came across the Mexican border are walking down my street.
uzza October 7th, 2014 at 09:00
Relax, that’s just Open Carry Texas.
mrbigstuff October 7th, 2014 at 08:22
I’m totally shocked that Rush would say such things,Gotta go now and get my guns Isis with Ebola that came across the Mexican border are walking down my street.
uzza October 7th, 2014 at 09:00
Relax, that’s just Open Carry Texas.
William October 7th, 2014 at 08:26
Obama the Tyrant.
William October 7th, 2014 at 08:26
Obama the Tyrant.
jasperjava October 7th, 2014 at 08:31
If Romney had been elected and the unemployment rate posted similar numbers, what would they be saying then?
They sure as hell would not be giving any credit to President Obama’s first term policies that made it possible.
jasperjava October 7th, 2014 at 08:31
If Romney had been elected and the unemployment rate posted similar numbers, what would they be saying then?
They sure as hell would not be giving any credit to President Obama’s first term policies that made it possible.
crc3 October 7th, 2014 at 11:20
As always Rush is wrong. Rush has nothing of substance to offer his remaining audience. He is slipping into the darkness of obscurity. Useless drivel. Fatso needs to understand that the vast majority of the population could care less what he thinks…
crc3 October 7th, 2014 at 11:20
As always Rush is wrong. Rush has nothing of substance to offer his remaining audience. He is slipping into the darkness of obscurity. Useless drivel. Fatso needs to understand that the vast majority of the population could care less what he thinks…
Dwendt44 October 7th, 2014 at 12:56
We don’t feel it because many of those jobs are part time and/or low paying ones. In parts that’s because Republicans have filibustered, blocks, or stymied any and all of Obama’s job bills. The bridges are dangerous, the roads are pot holed, the parks are deteriorating and so forth. All will have to be fixed and soon, but Republicans would rather they rot than help Obama jump start the economy.
Dwendt44 October 7th, 2014 at 12:56
We don’t feel it because many of those jobs are part time and/or low paying ones. In parts that’s because Republicans have filibustered, blocks, or stymied any and all of Obama’s job bills. The bridges are dangerous, the roads are pot holed, the parks are deteriorating and so forth. All will have to be fixed and soon, but Republicans would rather they rot than help Obama jump start the economy.