President Joe Biden on Friday tried to put a positive spin on the worst jobs report of his presidency, urging Americans to look at the bigger picture and pushing his infrastructure bill and his trillion-dollar package of social programs.
‘If you take a look at the trend itself, on average 600,000 new jobs created every month since I took office,’ Biden said. ‘In total, job creation in the first eight months of my administration is nearly 5 million jobs.’
‘Now that’s progress,’ he added.
Just 194,000 jobs were added to the payroll in September, falling far short of the 500,000 that were expected, and offering one of the most dismal outlooks from a US jobs report all year.
Monthly job growth this year has averaged 561,000.
Supply chain bottlenecks and Covid-19 contributed to the unimpressive numbers.
But Biden argued the country is making ‘consistent steady progress.’
‘If you take a step back, look at what’s happening, we’re actually making real progress. Maybe doesn’t seem fast enough – I’d like to see it faster,’ he said. ‘We’re making consistent steady progress.’
He argued the declining unemployment rate meant the country was moving forward as it grappled with its economic recovery from the COVID pandemic.
‘Uemployment rate down 4.8%, a significant improvement from when I took office and the sign that our recovery is moving forward,’ he said.
He did not respond to questions from reporters after he made his remarks.
He keeps talking up the paltry numbers of “new” jobs that are mostly the resurrected old jobs that were cancelled under his management.
He also wants to tell us that the monthly chocolate ration is now increased to twenty grams. That’s doubleplusgood, right Citizens?
Democrats see Destroying America as an Improvement !!!!
F Biden.