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FBN’s Lou Dobbs separates the fact from the fiction in the President’s State of the Union address.
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Were all about facts of course here in the chalk talk and it turns out President Obama well.
Be kind he wasn't all about backs in -- state of the union last idea bigger things and -- mine so we thought we would.
Take a look here you can see this.
Five of the most egregious what would you call them claims.
Stretches of the imagination exaggerations.
Let -- let's start with -- president bragging about first of all his jobs record periods.
After years.
Of grueling recession.
Our businesses have created over six million new jobs.
Six million new jobs I mean that is impressive is not.
There's a little problem and we're not saying the president did it intentionally it had to be an accident of some kind.
But the president start accounting and this is sort of peculiar.
Months after he took office and moments after the recession ended.
In February.
February of 2000 tea.
Six million jobs if you start them but.
Since the president took office private sector jobs have grown by a third of that six million that's only one point nine.
Million jobs and then you look at the public sector job losses and -- deducted from.
January 20 2009 when he took office the overall job.
-- -- -- One point two.
Million.
-- 6000006.
Million jobs and the reality is one point two million.
It may be an exaggeration an over exaggeration perhaps an accident as I said.
But then this must have been another acts -- -- after shedding jobs for more than ten years our manufacturers about it about.
500000 jobs over the past three.
What it's.
500000.
Manufacturing jobs but again the president is counting from a peculiar date.
He chose for that 1 January.
Of 20101.
And he and I it was a year earlier but he took profits.
Since the president did take office in January 2009 have been actually 600000.
-- manufacturing jobs.
As a result in the economy because of the job loss -- eight years.
So what we have here is a minus 600000.
From -- asserted was half a million.
And here -- rim -- one of those.
Well misrepresentations.
Startling exaggerations.
Little stretches while the president -- -- of selling the rebirth of American manufacturing.
But the reality is they're nearly three million fewer manufacturing jobs in the country then ten years ago -- from that.
There was also this rather startling claim about guns.
Police chiefs are asking our helped to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets because.
These police -- they're tired of seeing their guys and girls.
Being -- With -- scary stuff.
If only he were actually correct in his statement.
Actually police and federal law enforcement agencies are being out -- -- by AR fifteen.
As we've reported here in fact there were 323.
Murders committed.
With a rifle.
323.
Murders committed -- rifles.
And in 2011 the most recent year for which those effects are available.
That is significantly fewer than the 496.
Murders committed with hammers we're just gonna policy remain H and C.
Hammers and -- this is the reality.
This is a reality.
The clubs are out gunning the rifles when it comes to murder in this country Mr.
President I know that's an inconvenient.
And I'm sure it's just an awkward to -- on the part of your -- But let's take a look at the president's seemingly favorite subject and that is.
Energy.
Today no area.
Holds more promise than our investments in American energy.
After a year of them talking about.
We're finally poised to control our own energy future we have double the -- our cars will gonna -- -- gas.
While that's true.
On paper anyway it's from -- seven miles per gallon to 54 and a half.
Because of a deal with the auto makers back in 2011 to have vehicles.
-- average fuel economy up 54 point five miles per gallon.
We didn't exactly Dublin though be even though it's twice as much -- because what happened is.
The 27.
Twice the miles per gallon is now.
The deadline for the 54 and a half miles per gallon is.
Twelve years.
Away.
Just a slight exaggeration.
Twenty.
25.
That's when -- -- -- somewhat futuristic let's say it's already doubled and by the way the carmakers won't start making the changes.
For that mileage until -- twenty.
The twenty.
Seventeen.
Models roll out.
So again the present a slight twelve years -- better than a decade exaggeration no harm no foul and finally there's the claim on the what -- quite -- -- the federal minimum wage.
Even win the tax relief we put -- points.
A family with two kids that earns the minimum wage is still lives below the poverty line.
That's wrong tonight.
Let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on our.
No one who works fulltime should have to live in poverty and raise the federal minimum wage to nine dollars an -- Well.
Research shows raising the minimum wage doesn't help important factor of 2010 study by two economists of the 28 states.
-- raised their minimum wages between 2003 and seven.
Found no evidence of a decline in state poverty rate.
The won a majority of working age individuals who live in poverty.
If -- 5% simply don't work so it's hard to our benefit from a wage increase for them -- want a mature -- of those who do.
Are in the middle mortgage 56%.
Live in households that -- in poverty speaker Boehner said it pretty well.
He said government government wage controls.
The minimum wage.
Increasing it results in your jobs the president took Rica.
We just wanted to point out a few things it just didn't.
Didn't work out the way -- apparently his speech raiders that wanna do.
The deal with -- and by the way you mean you may have heard about Marco Rubio.
And some of the networks in the left wing operations -- -- I mean they're having a -- focus.
Last night senator rubio went for -- a bottled water.
CNN.
Thought it might be a career Ender.
And I just -- me just a minute -- -- -- one thing here.
Yeah I I thought it was kind of inspiring actually.
I hope this -- -- career there that would that would be unfortunate -- and I thought that actually.
Senator rubio.
I thought he handle that.
Doggone well.
It's a matter of fact I Cadillac -- better after he did that because I was about is normal.
And natural thing as the man could've done there.
It's kind of nice to see now instead of all those hitched up kind of tight.
Media trained politicians.
That we see so much.
