Obama: Hey, Great News! The Economy Only Lost 36,000 Jobs Last Month...

Bonus: He blamed the job losses on the East Cost snowstorms...you know, because doesn't everyone get laid-off when it snows?...

(The Hill)- President Barack Obama boasted Friday that his economic recovery efforts were showing results after the national unemployment rate stayed at a steady 9.7 percent for February.

Obama, touring a small business in Arlington, Va., said that the 36,000 jobs lost last month was "actually better than expected" considering the massive snowstorms that devastated the East Coast.

But the president said the steady number also “shows that the measures we're taking to turn our economy around are having some impact.”

ZIP

Comments

[jack]

It would have been 50,000 but they hired census workers. Obama's stimulus plan working as expected.

[revparadigm]

Biden to Obama...

"We need to order more shovels"

[whthfk1]

I hope while he is apologizing to Asia one more time that a goat comes up behind him and gives him a little sompum sompum during all of his 5 prays a day. better yet a nice beheading could be just the ticket.

[Baraka]

i would rather have giuliani as prez despite my disagreements with him on amnesty and all that

[Jen06]

How does a day or two off work qualify as "enemployment" and/or lost jobs?

[Hening]

There's no snow, the earth is too hot for that!!!

[jimbob2000]

snow is from global warming, so it makes sense

[Iron Maiden]

Imagine if Bush or Palin had ever EVER made such a goddamned stupid statement.

[bobwhite]

I think that fumb duck President has actually come to believe the crap that pours from those purple lips of his.

[Baraka]

no snow is from bushitler's weather machine which he sued to bring about the ice age 10,390 years ago jimbob

[ImNoDhimmi]

A snowstorm may prevent people from getting to work, but when did bad weather ever cause unemployment to rise?
Idiotic.