“That’s not a rounding error. That’s not a minor math mistake. This is a country that supposedly sent a man to the moon.”
Tucker Carlson called out the Biden administration on Tuesday for lying about “a million new jobs” during a recession ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
“If they admitted that the US was in a recession, they would lose the Senate,” Carlson said of the Biden administration. “They would lose control of both chambers of the Congress. So they had to lie about it.”
“But how do you lie about something that’s so easily defined, that everyone can see?” Carlson asked. “Well, you just change the definition. And that’s what they did. They came up with a new definition of recession.”
Carlson continued, “So don’t look at GDP. That’s the old way, the racist way of assessing the economy. Look at holistic factors. Let’s look at the labor market, for example. The labor market.”
“Well, then, in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gave them ammunition for their case,” Carlson noted. “The Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report that showed the labor market was strong. They determined that the US economy had added more than a million jobs in the second quarter of this year, from March to June.”
Carlson noted, “A million jobs. That’s a big deal. It’s a big story. And of course, Joe Biden wasted no time in touting it.”
“And now we get to learn the truth. A million new jobs, really? The Philadelphia Fed decided to check those numbers and they found the US economy did not add more than a million jobs in the second quarter of this year,” Carlson stated.
“Instead, the net additional jobs was about 10,000. So that’s less than 1% of the job growth the administration claimed,” Carlson said. “That’s not a rounding error. That’s not a minor math mistake. This is a country that supposedly sent a man to the moon. We can do math, right?”
“This isn’t like thinking you had 100 bucks in your pocket and finding out you had 85,” Carlson concluded. “This is like claiming you had $1,000,000 in your pocket and finding out you had $10,000. This is like claiming you were rich when you were actually bankrupt. This is a lie.”
