The Obama Administration is either stupid or ignorant and I’ll leave it up to our esteemed readers to make that choice for themselves. Case in point: Jennifer Rubin pens this piece over in the Washington Post Blog section today. Quote:

Stephanie Cutter, [who] declared that in “27 months we’ve created 4.5 million private-sector jobs. That’s more jobs than in the Bush recovery, in the Reagan recovery.” This is flagrantly wrong, and it’s disturbing to think the Obama team might actually believe this.

But he’s the Obamessiah, he can do anything! !@!!ELEVENTY!!@@!!1@!#

Well, as Ms. Rubin points out, Jim Pethokoukis debunks Ms. Cutter’s claim pretty succinctly:

Cutter counts the job gains from the low point of Obama’s term forward. The low point was February 2010 when U.S. nonfarm payrolls measured 129,244,000. In July, they measured 133,245,000 for a gain of 4.0 million jobs in 27 months

If you measure the Reagan recovery the same way, he created 8.0 million new jobs in 27 months.

And if you measure the Bush recovery the same way, the low point was in August 2003 when U.S. employment stood at 129,820,000. But 27 months later, the figure was 134,654,000 in November 2005 — a gain of 4.8 million jobs.

Of course, any presidential campaign is going to use the best yardstick around, even if they want to stand on their tippy-toes and count that tuft of hair that just won’t lay flat. But, as Ms. Rubin concludes:

Is Obama’s bubble so tight that he and his advisers don’t realize this is the worst recovery since World War II? Do they actually think their policies are working? Let’s hope this is just Cutter lying, for if the Obama administration is so benighted as to imagine its economic record is superior to other presidents, this president is dangerously out of touch.

Of course, the media won’t call Stephanie Cutter or President Obama on this erroneous claim.

Let’s peel off a few more numbers. Obama has the youth vote, right? Maybe they should get educated on these numbers: the unemployment percentage for Americans 18 to 24 years old grew to 46% – that’s almost half of that whole demographic. It is the highest unemployment for that age group since the Labor Department began tracking the number in 1948.

As of July 2012, the United States is down 4.737 million jobs since December 2007. The country needs to create (not create or save) at least 10.4 million jobs to return to the 62.7% civilian non-institutional population to employment ratio. It’s all well and good that we’re thinking we have just over an 8% unemployment rate but that doesn’t compare apples to apples when looking at past administrations. When you take the population numbers into consideration, you get a graph like the following:

Which is a broader measure of unemployment (the U-6) – it still leaves out some who could be considered to be in the work force. The current rate is 15.0% (up 0.1% in the last month).

So as much as the Democrats would like to paint the GOP as being out of touch, I think it’s clear – on the very important issue of the country’s economic and job situation, the Obama Administration is clearly stupid or ignorant and that’s no good for us.

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