Ken Berwitz

Alan Kreuger, the Obama administration's Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors', has issued a response to the awful jobs data shown in my previous blog.  Here is the first paragraph:

While the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, much more remains to be done to repair the damage from the financial crisis and deep recession that followed.  It is critical that we continue the policies that build an economy that works for the middle class and makes us stronger and more secure as we dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession.  There are no quick fixes to the problems we face that were more than a decade in the making. President Obama has proposals to create jobs by ending tax breaks for companies to ship jobs overseas and supporting State and local governments to prevent layoffs and rehire hundreds of thousands of teachers.

You can read the rest of this barf-a-thon by clicking here.  I urge you to do so, in order to see how an administration, desperate to pretend that awful data are good data, will twist, distort, beream and otherwise torture facts to make them look like what they aren't.

Then, when you are through marvelling at how, over 3 1/2 years into the Obama administration and over 3 1/2 years into the so-called "stimulus package" that Obama & Co. told us would solve the economic problems in 3 years' time, it is still whining that "waaahhh, it's not our fault, don't blame us"....

....you might want to read the remarkable, even hilarious recounting by ABC News' Mary Bruce, of the exact same "waaahhh, it's not our fault, don't blame us" crap issued by Kreuger every other month this year. 

Here is a taste of what Ms. Bruce will show you:  The first few words of each response from Kreuger:

June:  “While the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, much more remains to be done...

May:  “Problems in the job market were long in the making and will not be solved overnight...We are still fighting back from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression… There is much more work that remains to be done to repair.... 

April:  “Today’s employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but much more remains to be done.  It is critical that we continue the economic policies that are helping us dig our way out of...

March:  “There is more work to be done, but today’s employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. It is critical that we continue...to dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession that began at the end of 2007.

February:  “Today’s employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. It is critical that we continue the economic policies that are helping us dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the recession that began at the end of 2007...

January:  “Today’s employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. It is critical that we continue the economic policies that are helping us to dig our way out of...

It is never the Obama administration's fault, you see.  We are almost completely through Barack Obama's entire first term as president, during which the huge Democrat majorities in both houses of congress for his first two years voted us a bottomless money pit of increased national debt, promising that it would turn the economy around --- and this sorry, pathetic bunch still is blaming everyone but themselves for the economy. 

What will they say if (horrible thought here) there is a second Obama term?  "We tried and tried, but could not dig our way out of the worst economic downturn, great depression, critical that we.....blahblahblahblahblahblahblah?  Will it still be George Bush's fault?

I count the seconds until election day, and hope as hard as I can that voters see this for what it is.