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White House Refuses to Project Job Growth Under New Plan
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FBN’s Peter Barnes breaks down the latest data from the president’s jobs plan.
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- Date Sep 9, 2011
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White House promising cause if congress does past president Obama's jobs plan what's the promises being made the forecast being -- Peter bonds joins is now from Washington.
Beat it you have a rather surprising answer to the question which you -- I think to an official right.
I did Stewart and here's the answer the White House is offering no.
Official projection up job creation.
As part of it's jobs plan and talk to Gene Sperling they chairman of the -- director of the National Economic Council about this this morning.
We've heard White House official talking about private sector estimates for job growth with the president's plan you know a million or two million jobs or something like that.
And I asked them well.
Is it does have anything to do with this famous -- these famous projections from doctor Christina Romer your friend Stuart.
Who projected back in the first to be a big stimulus plan at 2009.
That -- that recovery plan the unemployment rate will be 7%.
Today that didn't work out.
Here's what Gene Sperling said.
We define at times -- we put out our number.
It becomes more treated more politically.
And so you know having to let happen on the stimulus package -- what hello I'm around -- and and there are some projections that that did not come to pass we'll know what really happened was that people didn't didn't -- in a serious way.
That the administration appears to be -- -- haunted by the stuff.
-- charts of projections the last time around.
And has apparently learned from that end so is not going to be saying anything official that could come back to -- that this time around you know adopted -- a rubble was a frequent guest on the program.
Then she left office we've often -- Gene Sperling if He will come on the show but so far He hasn't done that.
Would next time until -- would -- ask -- -- -- come onto the -- on a Friday -- jobs Friday it would become on the show.
Iowa last -- but you know you He he's He is concerned that is scared off doctor Romer that's not true absolutely not true.
But thanks for asking that.
Well I think that is good stuff we appreciate -- with us they.