31st Time the White House Advises Voters to Ignore Data

[SK-1]

After the Labor Department announced on Friday that only 80,000 jobs were added in June, the Obama administration was quick to assure voters that this is somehow a “step in the right direction” and that we shouldn’t read too much into the data.

“[I]t is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available [emphasis added],” Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan Krueger writes on the White House’s official website.

Really? We shouldn’t read too much into the Labor Department’s figures? Okay, let’s play along for a moment and agree that, yes, one monthly report does not provide enough historical data to let us conclude that the job market is doing poorly. We would need several reports spanning several months to do that.

Actually, you know what? We do have several reports and we do have months of figures. And you know what else? Krueger advising on Friday that we shouldn’t “read too much into” the Labor Department’s June report isn’t even the first time this has happened.

The White House has been telling people that they shouldn’t “read too much into” unemployment figures since November 2009! In fact, the White House has said those exact same words 30 times over the last three years.

Don’t believe? See for yourself

1. une 2012: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/...situation-june)
   
2. May 2012: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is helpful to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/...-situation-may)
   
3. April 2012: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is helpful to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/...ituation-april)
   
4. March 2012: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, and it is helpful to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/...ituation-march)
   
5. February 2012: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report; nevertheless, the trend in job market indicators over recent months is an encouraging sign.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/...ation-february)
   
6. January 2012: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report; nevertheless, the trend in job market indicators over recent months is an encouraging sign.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/...uation-january)
   
7. December 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/...ation-december)
   
8. November 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...ation-november)
   
9. October 2011: “The monthly employment and unemployment numbers are volatile and employment estimates are subject to substantial revision. There is no better example than August’s jobs figure, which was initially reported at zero and in the latest revision increased to 104,000. This illustrates why the Administration always stresses it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...uation-october)
   
10. September 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...tion-september)
    
11. August 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...tuation-august)
    
12. July 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...situation-july)
    
13. June 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...situation-june)
    
14. May 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...-situation-may)
    
15. April 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...ituation-april)
    
16. March 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...ituation-march)
    
17. February 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...ation-february)
    
18. January 2011: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...uation-january)
    
19. December 2010: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/...ation-december)
    
20. November 2010: “Therefore, as the Administration always stresses, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...ation-november)
    
21. October 2010: “Given the volatility in monthly employment and unemployment data, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...uation-october)
    
22. September 2010: “Given the volatility in the monthly employment and unemployment data, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...tion-september)
    
23. July 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative. It is essential that we continue our efforts to move in the right direction and replace job losses with robust job gains.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...situation-july)
    
24. August 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...tuation-august)
    
25. June 2010: “As always, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...situation-june)
    
26. May 2010: “As always, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...-situation-may)
    
27. April 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...ituation-april)
    
28. March 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...ituation-march)
    
29. January 2010: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/...uation-january)
    
30. November 2009: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report, positive or negative.” (LINK: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/...ation-november)

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[FordGT90Concept]

You spin me right 'round baby right 'round...


Here's what provoked it:
Stocks end down 1% on jobs woes

[jmcslob]

I'm not saying this is good cause it's not but at least we are gaining jobs...
I'd still like to see a gain more like 400k a month...but lets face it Companies aren't going to hire like they did in the past...We don't need as many people when China makes everything we need.

Until the people in Charge (Congress, Senate, President) decides that we need to do away with free trade in lieu of FAIR TRADE we are going to be in this situation.

Problem is Money is more important for a few than it is for the many....What's even worse is our choices for President are Tweedle dee and Tweedle dumb....

Then we have the American Public that cannot understand that we need more than the President to solve this problem....

We need real change...We need Term Limits, an end to Lobbyist, and a true Free Press that's not under the constraints of Profit and that simply reports the daily happenings.

And most importantly we need to educate the Public on exactly how the Govt works...

[FordGT90Concept]

Even at 471k jobs a month (unrealistic), it wouldn't be until 2014 that we break even with 2007:
http://www.brookings.edu/up-front/po...enstone-looney


Just remember that Obama is inviting illegals to steal your job. 7.9 million jobs lost. 11-12 million illegals in the USA. The illegal immigrant problem is a severe economic problem. Why don't Americans get that?

I'll tell you why: democracy. Some politicians will do anything to get votes and win an election be it Obama's side-stepping of the Constitition (not enforcing immigration laws, taking over the student loan industry, taxing life) to Nixon's Watergate.

Originally Posted by Sir Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Because of elections, there's only a 1-year windows to do anything (2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, etc.). That's the period after the general election where president, Congress, and Senate have a year long break from elections. After that year is up, Congress members have to start campaigning to keep their seat.

The only solution I see is to forbid second terms for all elected officials. That way they have 2 years instead of 1 to focus on policy. Then again, it would likely have no impact because they would spend that year campaigning for anoited successors instead of campaigning for self.

[Screaming Beaver]

Change Reps and Senator terms to 4 yrs each and put them in the same year as presidential elections, get it all out of the way at once.

[Jizzler]

Easy fix. Make all the the illegals legal American citizens and the job gain for the month will be 7.9 million. The overall joblessness % will go down as a majority of those illegals have jobs.

As for the president - 6 years, one term, no wammys.

[FordGT90Concept]

Originally Posted by Screaming Beaver

Change Reps and Senator terms to 4 yrs each and put them in the same year as presidential elections, get it all out of the way at once.

It isn't going to change. There's been many attempts to change the number of years and terms but they all fail to get the 2/3 vote required to make a constitutional amendment.

Originally Posted by Jizzler

Easy fix. Make all the the illegals legal American citizens and the job gain for the month will be 7.9 million. The overall joblessness % will go down as a majority of those illegals have jobs.

Uh? Making illegals legal in the USA would drastically increase the unemployment rate (more people looking for work, no change in number of jobs).

Alabama is proof of this:
http://cnsnews.com/blog/bill-hobbs/a...migration-laws

When they kicked the illegals out, unemployment dropped 1.2%.


Pew estimates illegals are 10% unemployed--higher than the national average:
http://www.examiner.com/article/ille...d-11-1-million


We have more workers than jobs right now. Inviting foreign workers in hurts the economy, not helps it, because someone is going on welfare.

[FordGT90Concept]

Obama downplays weak jobs report; Romney blames him for it