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The Obama Jobs Debate Continues

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    Democratic strategist Chris Hahn on the president’s track record for job creation.

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In the show on Friday President Obama said that the private sector is doing just fine.

He walked back that comment way to but he stuck by his stance that government look at is all the ones who are really honing.

-- right here the facts.

Accorded the Bureau of Labor Statistics since January of 08 the private sector has lost four point six million jobs.

But employment among federal -- -- is actually rose by more than 11%.

Democrat strategist Chris Hahn is here right Chris welcome back Monday morning good to see great to -- here as usual we're gonna put the -- -- okay.

Now if the president says -- -- we will get back but the president says the private sector is doing just fine.

Those numbers have just given each week in union in the sense of employment he's not doing just fine.

Full point six million jobs have gone.

Private sector golf meanwhile 225000.

Federal -- -- jobs have been added the press is going in the wrong way around go.

Well there's been about 600000.

State local jobs cut because of austerity measures taken -- state local governments now.

Some say that that might have had -- shrink anyway but that is eight back in the difference between -- recovery and Obama's recovery is during the Reagan recovery the size of government almost doubled.

People on the state local and federal level coming off of the federal state local payrolls that's not happening right now that's causing additional -- in this economy it's spiraling down.

-- the private sector has added.

Four point one million jobs in the last 22 month that's a fact that everybody knows.

OK another problem -- what the president have to side.

He implied that the way to get this economy going is more government jobs hi I'm more people the state level.

Let's suppose that you provide from the federal government you provide money to the states to -- -- people at the state level.

If you do that.

All you're doing is paying off the exorbitant pensions of retired state will focus you don't necessarily saying -- -- state -- jobs.

And it shows you that the president is a government man.

And he doesn't understand private enterprise -- well that's it.

I I think that we have to do something to stop the bleeding at the state and local level because that is adding to unemployment but I would say let's invest more money into infrastructure.

In states and localities and federal infrastructure for that matter.

The highway -- being held up right now in the House of Representatives after getting 72 votes in the senate seventy votes having a lot of Republicans came over to vote on it.

It's something that will put people work immediately in this country something that we do as a matter of course every five years I don't understand why the Republicans don't wanna help America up and put dispute.

I don't know I want to even that they were talking with the overall Democrat.

Bled jobs bill that the president is -- on Friday which a number of Democrats also opposed including tester mansion.

And Ben Nelson at a post listen seven out of the ten richest counties in the United States -- outside.

DC the president doesn't -- -- risk looking like John McCain during the 2000 election when he said the fundamentals of the economy are strong that the dangers and.

I'll you know it is dangerous and -- I'm sure that that's -- -- -- played time and time again this campaign but remember nothing it happens in June really matters but what happens in October that graduate ready economists hang -- -- that really.

By the way we are down net job loss we are down net job -- and -- -- -- Canada.

First six months now you know under Romney's situation when he was governor masters -- his -- -- the first year he was in office.

We if we're just asking not to count the first six months -- not decided whether this stimulus Jessica hand held a second home.

What the president does not understand is private enterprise.

He is a formal community -- he's on the other side of the fence from private bright -- he -- understand the role of private enterprise and America's economy.

That full he is of government man.

He thinks the way to expand your comment is to expand government that's consistently -- his policy.

He does not well -- -- that if you regulate to death private enterprise you really end up with a -- -- economy which is what we've got.

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