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Originally Posted by spence
If you read your article you'd see that Frank was stating that to discuss the number at all was bad politically so now you are admitting that he DID discuss the number?
, not that he disagreed with the projection.
And he used the word "predict" not "promise".
-spence
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
Spence, he said the stimulus would keep unemployment under 8%, and he was spectacularly wrong.
Originally Posted by spence
Well, we should probably fact check your assertion.
First off, Obama never even said it.
"The administration
famously released a chart during the fight over its signature $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) showing that, if that package were enacted, unemployment would not exceed 8 percent."
promise, predict, project....whatever "p" word you want to use to describe it or how it was delivered to the public or by which member(s) of "OBAMA'S" Administration...it was "wrong"....and dumb...here's a good one for you...
prevaricate
did they "predict" that the way we'd get back to 8% unemployment is that millions of American's would simply give up looking for work