{"id":48786,"date":"2017-10-26T04:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=48786"},"modified":"2017-10-26T04:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T04:57:07","slug":"white-house-takes-credit-for-obama-era-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/white-house-takes-credit-for-obama-era-jobs.html","title":{"rendered":"White House takes credit for Obama-era jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">White House takes credit for Obama-era jobs<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">White House takes credit for Obama-era jobs:- At yesterday\u2019s White House press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a curious boast about her boss\u2019 economic record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWell, I think there\u2019s also a lot of other things beyond just the stock market. The fact the unemployment levels have dropped, that\u2019s certainly a big thing. The fact that 1.7 million new jobs have been created since Donald Trump was elected. Those are all positive things in the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t say it was completely fixed and that \u2013 but we\u2019re certainly moving in the right direction. I think we\u2019ve been more successful in these first nine months than Obama was in eight years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">I don\u2019t imagine anyone is foolish enough to believe Trump\u2019s accomplishment-free record already surpasses Barack Obama\u2019s successes, but what struck me as interesting about Sanders\u2019 attempt at spin was the specific number she used: 1.7 million new jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">As regular readers probably know, I publish a monthly piece on jobs reports, and according to the most recent data, the United States has added 1.33 million new jobs this year. That\u2019s not an awful number, but it is the lowest since 2010 for the first nine months of the year, and it\u2019s hardly worth bragging about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">But if the actual number is 1.33 million, why did Sarah Huckabee Sanders say 1.7 million? Because the Trump White House has decided to take credit for some Obama-era jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Look again at her exact wording: 1.7 million new jobs \u201csince Donald Trump was elected.\u201d In other words, the economic gains that occurred after Election Day, but before Trump took office, should somehow be credited to the Republican administration \u2013 because the White House says so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It\u2019s not just jobs, either. The president has repeatedly claimed credit \u2013 four times in just the last week \u2013 for stock market gains since early November, rather than mid-January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">What we\u2019re left with is a strange dynamic in which Trump keeps identifying Obama-era successes \u2013 on everything from national security to the economy \u2013 and claiming those accomplishments as his own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Perhaps, if Trump had meaningful successes of his own, he wouldn\u2019t have to take credit for others\u2019 work?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/white-house-takes-credit-obama-era-jobs<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/white-house-takes-credit-for-obama-era-jobs.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House takes credit for Obama-era jobs White House takes credit for Obama-era jobs:- At yesterday\u2019s White House press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a curious boast about her boss\u2019 economic record. \u201cWell, I think there\u2019s also a lot of other things beyond just the stock market. 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