{"id":3323,"date":"2005-01-07T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3323.html"},"modified":"2005-01-07T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T15:30:14","slug":"final-jobs-tally-for-bush-3-months-of-success-15-months-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/final-jobs-tally-for-bush-3-months-of-success-15-months-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Final jobs tally for Bush &#8212; 3 months of success, 15 months of failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest employment figures, <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/01\/07\/news\/economy\/jobs_december\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">released this morning<\/a>, showed that the economy added about 157,000 jobs in December. It&#8217;s short of economists&#8217; projections for the month and a total that barely keeps up with population growth.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to my monthly look at how well Bush&#8217;s promises of last year kept up with reality. The president insisted that the economy would create 300,000 jobs a month, every month, starting in July 2003 and ending in December 2004, if Congress passed his third tax cut plan. Lawmakers, not surprisingly, obliged. How&#8217;d Bush do in keeping his promise? Not very well.<\/p>\n<p>In the 18 months spanning July 2003 to December 2004, job growth fell short of Bush&#8217;s guarantees 15 times, including six of the last seven months.<\/p>\n<p>The White House will point out that 2004&#8217;s job picture was stronger than the first three years of Bush&#8217;s presidency. This is, to be sure, true. On the other hand, Bush promised that his policy would create 5.5 million new jobs by the end of 2004 &#8212; and he came several million jobs short. What&#8217;s worse, the Bush gang, far from having an explanation for failure, is revelling in their &#8220;success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest employment figures, released this morning, showed that the economy added about 157,000 jobs in December. It&#8217;s short of economists&#8217; projections for the month and a total that barely keeps up with population growth. Which leads me to my monthly look at how well Bush&#8217;s promises of last year kept up with reality. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}