6/4/10: Obama Congratulates Himself for Inflated Jobs Report

President Obama is patting himself on the back for the latest jobs report. And he should - it was his administration that fudged the numbers!

President Barack Obama says the addition of 431,000 new jobs in May shows "the economy is getting stronger by the day."

Speaking at a trucking company outside Washington, Obama embraced the Labor Department's new employment snapshot, released Friday morning. A burst of census hiring lifted payrolls last month, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7 percent.

Obama notes that the economy has seen job gains for five straight months after devastating losses from the recession. He says the recovery is still in its early stages, and that it will be uneven in the months ahead.

The president says that even though the census jobs are only temporary, private sector hiring is growing, too.

Source: Breitbart

Yeah, but, it seems that the new job numbers were propped up by 411,000 temporary census worker jobs. And that 411k number was inflated by hiring and firing and re-hiring census workers.

And when you take out the 411,000 temporary/inflated census jobs, that doesn't leave many private sector jobs.

Nice work, Mr. President.