Jack Welch: “Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers”

Dear Commons Community,

The latest unemployment figures came out yesterday and showed that the unemployment rate in this country dipped below 8.0 percent for the first time since the Great Recession.  Predictably, President Obama and his supporters have pointed to this as indicative of the improvement in the economy and that his policies are working.  Just as predictably, Mitt Romney and his supporters such as Rush Limbaugh have raised questions about the unemployment numbers mainly arguing that many Americans have stopped looking for work.  However, various news media  reported that Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric and corporate poster boy, went so far as to question the veracity of the unemployment figures and tweeted:  “Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can’t debate so change numbers.”

Sorry Mr. Welch but as someone whose company has done everything possible to avoid paying taxes and in fact paid no taxes in 2010, and whose company polluted the Hudson River for decades and denied same should not be making spurious claims about the President’s veracity.  In fact, you should just quietly go away or maybe enter a monastery and do penance for the how you and your company have abused our country and our precious planet.

Tony

 

 

 

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