Obama Stands A Chance At Ending First Term As Job Creator

CNNMoney:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The countdown is on.

With just a few more positive job reports, President Obama could stand a chance at ending his first term as a job creator.

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Comments

[86-44]

09:36 AM on 04/10/2012

Like everything else surrounding Obama it is all a dream, smoke and mirrors. Obama is not a job creator he is a job destroyer.

[Jim NLN]

01:47 PM on 04/09/2012

If Birther is a job category then Obama has created many of jobs.

[DismayedRepub]

01:00 PM on 04/09/2012

Last Friday the BLS reported that 120,000 jobs were added to the economy in March. What wasn't reported was that the BLS "adjusted" the number by adding 90,000 to it. The real number was probably more like 30,000. On top of this even more people gave up on looking for work forcing the unemployment rate a little lower. Meanwhile the stock markets continue to go down. It doesn’t sound like a recovery to me.

[Jim NLN]

01:49 PM on 04/09/2012

If it "wasn't reported" then how did you know about it....oh, yeah, it is public knowledge for those that need to know.

[DismayedRepub]

02:58 PM on 04/09/2012

http://dailyreckoning.com/calls-for-qe3-on-disappointing-jobs-data/

[uncle george]

09:35 AM on 04/09/2012

What can a President do? There are no set rules since the problem that he works with change continually.Since there are no other jobs like it the person coming into office has no background to depend on.The President does what anyone does if they become the President. He surrounds himself with the best people he can that can advise him and help him understand the problems that his and his country faces and what he can do and what he cannot do. What the president must do is decide what is best for the country and its people.
If He is of the people by the people and for the people he answers the first requesit of a democratic leader. .All else is in the soul of the man or woman.as a leader.and the soul of the people as a Nation.
Politics is a way to choose our leaders and as such it becomes an instament of the people. If it becomes an insrtument for gaining power or wealth it becomes an enemy of the people and its system..

[Kye154]

03:08 AM on 04/09/2012

Obama may have only save 3 million GM workers their jobs, but he still has 22.6 million he hasn't helped.

[blurredmolly]

09:59 AM on 04/09/2012

republicans in Congress have no part in this?

[Kye154]

10:47 AM on 04/09/2012

If he were a strong president, Republicans wouldn't have a chance ot get under his feet, much like what Franklin Roosevelt did to the Republicans.

[graffitijoe]

12:56 PM on 04/09/2012

In all 15 months since the Republicans took the house there has been job growth. In the 24 months that Obama and the Democrats had totoal control of Congress there were job losses for 17 months and job growth for only 7.

[mashtoe]

12:24 PM on 04/09/2012

The GM bailout helped GM continue building factories in communist China. GM has more factories and more workers in communist China than in the US.

Wait until GM begins importing Chinese made cars into the US. Will you still support the bailout?

[empiresentry]

10:59 PM on 04/08/2012

Only if numbers are taken from the future...ooops they already do that for GM Volt sales, stimulus numbers of employed, money spent this year taken from ten years from now, SS payment of $40 dollars a month instead of $200 a month when you retire, moving all those nasty pesky little Obama legislation and taxes to after the election so no one will care about them now, etc.

[TBrennan]

10:42 PM on 04/08/2012

Who knows who created them but under Obama public employment is down and private sector employment is up. Hey, the pace sucks but a trend is a trend.

[Obrand]

10:37 PM on 04/08/2012

But, but, he made it worse.
Romney's new slogan.
Up is down.
Down is Up.

[VikingQuest]

10:48 PM on 04/08/2012

He may have, it's all a hypothetical so we'll never know.

As I mentioned below, President's are more along for the ride when it comes to the business cycle than leading however.

[blurredmolly]

10:03 AM on 04/09/2012

what about all the legislation that was geared to the economy and ended up in the Senate shredder? tax cuts for main street? the pace of the recovery is totally on Congressional republicans. to insist otherwise is about as intellectually dishonest as one could get.

[VikingQuest]

10:26 PM on 04/08/2012

Glad to hear it, I would say in most cases though . . . it's not smart to look to politicians as controllers of the economy. If they had that much power over it, there would never be recessions or job losses.

[gomezrules]

10:21 PM on 04/08/2012

I'll guarantee all that Obama will be hailed as a 'job creator' by the vast majority of the media, because that media exists for the sole purpose of advancing the Dem Party's agenda as it is. Heck, I'm shocked that Obama is not reporting the unemployment rate as being below 5%, though I'm confident he will be come November. Who needs facts, and the only ones who put out such info is the Fed govt anyways, and the POTUS appoints the heads of the agencies involved! Never mind that sheer number of people who have given up looking for work, they don't count (literally) to the govt.

And never mind that it's not just the number of people out of work or who have given up looking for it, it's also the matter of lost jobs, as in jobs that will never be replicated or created again. Even Steve Jobs made that clear he he was touting his empire (and the money that comes form that) in Red China.

And the always reliable 'litmus test’ is hence: if a Republican President tried to make such claims, how would the leftist media take that? Proof? Just go back and look at what they said about employment during Bush's terms. Millions of jobs were created then (thanks largely to the tax cuts) before the economy turned south in '08, but the left derided virtually all of them as 'burger-flipper' jobs! So that's you standard.

[TBrennan]

10:31 PM on 04/08/2012

Gomez, you're right "who needs facts". You are so full of it your eyes are brown. Bush's tax cuts created no new jobs, burger flippers or other. Our poor situation is not the result of Obama's 3 years in office.

[Obrand]

10:41 PM on 04/08/2012

You "guarantee" ?
Would you "guarantee" the House's "Jobs" bills had anything to do with "Jobs" ?

[TopBrain]

10:13 PM on 04/08/2012

Once again, it took the Dems to mop up a mess made by the Cons. Someone has to be the adult in the room.

[BocaMom]

09:54 PM on 04/08/2012

President Obama has lots of good qualities as President, but job creator would be stretching it. We still have more people unemployed than we came into office, plus over 5 million jobs literally disappeared.

[OnceProudAmerican]

07:30 PM on 04/09/2012

This country is like the Titanic - It does't turn on a dime.
After eight years of Dubya we're still hurting but we are starting to turn.
After all it is'nt easy when you've got the party of No fighting you tooth and nail at every turn!

[Vuewide]

09:46 PM on 04/08/2012

Freedom creates, people create, while institutions - government, big institutions, politicians etc. - should remain as serving, non-interfering catalysts that allow self-direction.

[SwiftJonathan]

09:48 PM on 04/08/2012

How did that work out for you during the eight years of the Bush government?

:-)

[TBrennan]

10:39 PM on 04/08/2012

I want my "government, big institutions, politicians, etc." serving my health care at least as much as they serve my military. Sounds like freedom to me.

People not being allowed to self destruct? Is that what you think is wrong with the economy. If it it is you need to go to school, a very easy school.

[Vuewide]

02:18 AM on 04/09/2012

We all need schooling - government included - to serve, without interference. Being superfluous is passe.

[MIKEBC]

08:14 PM on 04/08/2012

Republicans think the government can't create jobs? (tell that to FDR who created 4 million jobs in 3 months)

[cyclone70]

08:36 PM on 04/08/2012

police, fireman, teachers, inspectors, license brance clerks, construction workers, soldiers, and of course politicans

just a sampling of the jobs created by govt

[SwiftJonathan]

09:51 PM on 04/08/2012

Let's take all the firemen, policemen and teachers off the table and see how many days your business can go with the neighbourhood burning, the criminals coming in every day to collect their "protection" money and none of your future employees (and customers) being able to read and write.

:-)

[Peter Combs]

10:03 PM on 04/08/2012

Hiring people by GOvernment is easy..paying for them without going into deeper Debt is the problem....

Its not really sustainable job creation until they can be paid for without borrowing.

[YeahIThoughtSo]

07:14 PM on 04/08/2012

More than two years of private sector job growth. Hard to argue with that.

[CSNC]

10:23 PM on 04/08/2012

YeahIThoughtSo,

It is not the trend that matters -- It is the percentage.

Math makes sense, get used to it.

H

[Harry Bradford]

08:06 PM on 04/08/2012

Your ignorance is astounding. “Because we've now had 25 straight months of private sector job growth, more than 4 million jobs created, and where actually at this point in our recovery, we've created seven times more jobs than at the same point in the recovery in 2001, I’d say we're making slow but steady progress,” DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said this morning. She doesn't mention.that 1.8 million jobs were created in 2011 alone and that the underemployment rate has fallen from 17+% to 14+%.
Get off the edge and into the game, especially on the information level.

[CSNC]

10:27 PM on 04/08/2012

Harry Bradford,

Growth is what matter -- the percentage of growth, to be precise.

You are not good at math, are you?

H

[empiresentry]

11:04 PM on 04/08/2012

She assumes the population never changes. While the numbers do account for those that retire, it does not address the population entering the market such as college or high school. We are at half a month to address this. It would take five years at 500,000 a month to break even. We are moving in the wrong direction.