Grijalva Can't really Believe The things he is Saying, Can He?

The trickle-down-the-leg economic math of the Obama administration has reached Southern Arizona's own Raul Grijalva. Never good with math, our representative is spouting  the voodoo-inspired unemployment numbers coming out of the White House. 

"Much more remains to be done on job creation, but the trend under President Obama has been positive over his first year while the last year of President Bush's term was marked by steep and constant declines."

See the pretty graph that shows how Obama is better than Bush on unemployment:

  

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3563625&id=73539896233

 

After all, pretty graphs are always accurate aren't they?

Except when they have been adjusted by an administration using every trick possible to keep unemployment numbers under 10%. Here's the raw data, strait out of the Bureau of Labor statistics:

                      (Unadj) Not in Labor Force, Want a Job Now Labor force status:               Not in labor force Type of data:                    Number in thousands Age:                             16 years and over Job desires/not in labor force:  Want a job now

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2000	4401	4476	4510	4437	5004	4670	4446	4479	4218	4096	4009	4208	4413
2001	4517	4543	4144	4491	5180	5011	4542	5107	4396	4386	4375	4388	4590
2002	4938	4491	4426	4554	5533	5128	4921	4811	4500	4192	4407	4227	4677
2003	4779	4495	4763	4373	5482	5085	4955	5030	4637	4561	4201	4355	4726
2004	4913	4622	4667	4598	5371	5000	4767	5145	4720	5065	4755	4607	4852
2005	5136	4844	4858	5022	5386	5645	5081	5017	4757	4796	4466	4808	4985
2006	5095	4800	4729	4648	5201	5126	5006	5131	4434	4661	4476	4121	4786
2007	4633	4635	4365	4729	5551	5288	4900	4965	4503	4131	4337	4398	4703
2008	4977	4689	4492	4677	5393	5374	5213	5024	4895	4800	5077	5180	4983
2009	5866	5588	5535	5868	6612	6454	6244	5728	5650	5621	5618	5939	5894
2010	6108

And here are the national unemployment rates for latinos for the last two years:

2008	19.0	18.6	17.8	19.5	17.5	23.4	27.3	22.8	24.9	28.3	27.0	22.6	22.4
2009	24.3	25.5	24.9	26.5	31.0	30.8	29.8	34.0	29.5	35.6	34.7	35.5	30.2
2010	37.2

Notice the figures for the fall quarter and January. Hispanic unemployment is nearly double what it was a year ago with no sign of improvement. Not only is Grijalva using fudged numbers that show the economy to be improving when it is not, he is lying to his constituents who are hurting the most from the liberal agenda of his party.

“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”

 Milton Friedman quotes (American Economist, b.1912)