Obama Economics Advisor still Blaming Bush on Lousy Jobs Numbers

President Obama’s economic adviser Gene Sperling blamed the economy the president inherited for today’s unemployment report with a jobless rate at 9.1%. Keep in mind that the president promised an unemployment figure of 8%.
Sperling claimed that 11 million jobs had been “saved” due to the president’s spending policies. Here are his full comments:
The president inherited an economy that we now know was falling at almost 9 percent per year — 8.9 percent — of the fourth quarter of 2008. Independent analysts found that the Recovery Act that the president put forward meant a difference of about 8 million jobs in 2010 and up to 3 million jobs in the second quarter of this year. What the president was fighting for, working his heart out everyday this summer was to get a long-term plan that would give long-term fiscal certainty.
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It is time for the blame shifting to stop. We are in this mess because of President Obama’s policies.
