Posted on October 18, 2012

Santelli On Obama's 5 Million Jobs Claim: "Zero Jobs Created"

RICK SANTELLI: You know, fact checkers for these debates are just as horrible as some of the facts being thrown out by both candidates. But I will tell you this. You can slice it any way you want. The president was sworn in in mid-January of '09. So if I go back and look at non-farm, and I have all the data, actual non-farm payrolls, the establishment survey, the headcount survey, and I take the 818 minus thousand from January, because he wasn't sworn in until the middle of the month. Do the math.



Do you know what the math is? It's a push. It's a push. There's zero jobs created. It's a push. If you look at the minuses and the pluses, it's a push. So where they get all these numbers, and they'll say, 'Well, they were going down for …'



Listen, whether it's Cubs managers or the president, January of '09 to today, throw out January, it's a push. Basically zero.