Robert Gibbs Admits: ‘We’re Not Growing Fast Enough and We‘re Not Adding Enough Jobs’
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Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs acknowledged Sunday that the economic recovery is not happening quickly enough.
“We‘re not growing fast enough and we’re not adding enough jobs,” Gibbs said on CNN’s “State of the Union.“ ”We‘ve made progress but we’ve got a long way to go.”
Gibbs‘ admission came on the heels of Friday’s weak jobs report that said just 80,000 jobs were added in June.
“I think we are coming out of the hardest economic time in our country’s history,” he prefaced.
“–which we’ve been doing for four years,” host Candy Crowley interjected.
“We have been, and typically when you come out of a recession the depth that we were in…it takes a while to dig out of that hole,” Gibbs said.
Gibbs, the former White House press secretary, said November’s election will be about “two different visions”: Mitt Romney’s conviction about giving tax cuts to the wealthy, or Obama wanting to grow the economy “from the middle class out.”
“We have to grow this economy like we did for years and years and decades from the middle class out,” he said. “Let’s continue to add opportunity, let’s bring this American dream back, let’s guarantee that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will have a chance to get ahead, that your children will have a chance to get ahead.”
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Comments (142)
progressiveslayer
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:09pmWell Gibbs it looks like your old boss’s plan is working out quite nicely,spread the wealth so everybody’s poorer,have socialized medicine so everybody has the same rotten health insurance and kill the coal industry so our energy will cost more than it should.
Tax and regulate businesses out of business,sounds like a Marxist’s utopia but the good news is the bastard will be fired in November,fixing all the damage he’s done is probably impossible.
Report Post »Blacktooth
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:19pmAll this is consequences of ambitious man, thinking he can rule other men.
Report Post »It is the occupation of kings for some 5,000 years. Look where it has got us.
soybomb315
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:22pmYea, Obama has made the fire worse. It seems to me that this debt-based financial system is collapsing and wealth is ending up with the countries that actually produce products. Here is a related read – Jobs in this country may never come back
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/there-will-never-be-enough-jobs-in-america-again
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:32pmI never thought, I’d say it, but Robert Gibbs is a geneous… Carney still doesn’t get that ‘We’re Not Growing Fast Enough and We‘re Not Adding Enough Jobs’…. and that Dopy Debbie Wasser…. just says the usual, when we took over blah blah blah.
……….a geneous compared to Carney that is
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:38pmIf JZS is reading this… please correct me if I’m wrong.
I’d like to clear up a lie that the WH and the MSM is telling. They are saying that new jobs have been created every month for the last 27 months.
“Obama and his staff have taken pains to regularly remind the public that the U.S. economy has been adding jobs every month since March of 2010, for a total of 4.3 million new jobs.”
http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-jobs-spin-focuses-27-not-bad-months-231346022–business.html
However, in August 2011 no new jobs were created. That’s right…. a big fat 0. I’ll even give you trolls out there a link to your favorite newspaper, The New York Times.
“Zero Job Growth Latest Bleak Sign for U.S. Economy”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/business/economy/united-states-showed-no-job-growth-in-august.html?_r=1
All you lying progressive trolls can read it and weep. : )
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:40pmSOY Great article and unfortunately all too true,my grandparents lived through the depression and I never thought I‘d see one but I now know we’ll have another depression and probably soon.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:04pm“I think we are coming out of the hardest economic time in our country’s history,” said Gibbs
Report Post »“–which we’ve been doing for four years,” host Candy Crowley interjected. and will continue
to do if we re-elect this BOZO…. That’s right… but we will continue to BLAME Bush………
No Problem..
CatB
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:06pm@MONK .. yes Wassy Schultz was repeating (parroting) those EXACT LIES just this MORNING .. I am sending her opponent a DONATON this week!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:09pm@soybomb315
Thanks for that article. Want to hear something that’s “not” funny?
I like to do my own research. So when I kept hearing that the unemployment rate was not correct I went over to my local Florida Unemployment Office, sat down with a nice elderly lady, gave her my drivers license and SS card and asked her to see if she could find me on the States unemployment list. She said it would take a while and I said I didn’t mind waiting.
After a while she said that I wasn’t on the current unemployment list but I was listed on the one from before that. That’s when I was still receiving unemployment.
Here in Florida, it seems, that they only count those receiving unemployment benefits as unemployed. According to their website, last months rate was 8.7%. I wonder what the real % is?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:16pm@CatB
Yep, I saw that. She’s the reason I posted that. I would have included a link to her saying that but, it’s not available yet online.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:20pm@CatB
Why don’t you copy my post and e-mail it to her opponent so they can use it to prove she’s lying?
I do that a lot with some of the really good stuff posted here.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:38pm@MONK…
Better yet.. here is Wassy Schultz opponents website …. Karen Harrington
http://www.karenforcongress.com/
People can keep up to date .. .donate .. etc .. on this site.
You can send her any info you get!
Have a nice day ;-)
Cat
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:45pmOh and BTW .what D W-S .. keeps “forgettng” to mention is that the economy was hummng along until the DEMS took over CONGRESS IN 2007! They blame BUSH but it was the DEM CONGRESS INCLUDING OBAMA!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:49pmYep, the last 2 years (or you could say 25%) of Bush as POTUS was controlled by the Dems.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:25pmThe only thing this administration is adding is unemployment, with failed programs promoting energy that no one can afford. The real strange part after four years of this mess, they want to keep doing the same thing all over again, like it’s going to work eventually. I think by definition that’ insanity.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:29pmGibbs…… Reagan dug us out of Jimmy Carter hole. When did taxes help jobs? YoMamma makes Jimmy look good, not an easy thing to do
Report Post »booger71
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:58pmSince June 2010
Private sector has added 2.5 million jobs
Nobama’s Social Security Administration has added 3.2 million new people on permanent Social Security Disability.
Whats the problem?
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 5:32pmWe need much higher taxes on all business to the tune of say 900%. That plus another 100 million on food stamps and at least another 10 million added to government payrolls will do the trick.
Report Post »The people running hot dog stands and similar businesses have millions in their pockets and are just too greedy and need to be punished with higher taxes. Bigger government is where real wealth is created.
Meyvn
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:20pmI don’t know about spreading it, but this is want to can look forward to in his next term if elected again. He plans to tax the piss out of those that do have jobs.
MAMMOTH TAX INCREASE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wIfI2whjiM
Are you sure you want to vote for Obama? He wants YOUR money. He does not care about the jobless.
Report Post »Wigglesworth
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:03pmCalifornia here we come!
Report Post »Patriot of My America
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 10:25pmRise up America, Rise Up…. Defeat the treason and hold the traitors to account…
Report Post »donh2
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:17pmGibby should stick to topless belly dancing on I-Carly ….Turn up the music…THIS is the real GIBBY…> http://youtu.be/eEpZGE0Iyh0
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:09pmAs my shirt that I wear often on the front says R. I. P. The Constitution and on the back says In this present crisis government isn’t the solution the problems government is the problem. …Ronald Reagan
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:18pmOops government isn’t the solution to our problems.Fingers were going faster then the brain LOL
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:05pmGood Call Robert
Report Post ».“We‘re not growing fast enough and we’re not adding enough jobs,”
.
Now on to a Stage Two Question you need to ask yourself!
.
WHY?????
PATTY HENRY
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:31pmExactly…WHY??? It’s either: #1: Obama wants a ONE-WORLD GOV. that he (of course heads up) or #2: Obama wants to ruin the USA forever so his puppet master, that slimy cobra SOROS can buy up everything 10c on the dollar.
(OR # 3: Both)
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:10pmSORRY
Report Post »I do not TRUST Bagdad Bobby
Him and AxelRodder and Rambo are the axis campaign evil
Toss in Val Jarrat and poof—you have a montage of religions
and obummer
OMG 2012
CatB
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:10pm#3
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Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 9:15pmI don’t trust Gibbycoo either….
Report Post »BLAZINGTRUTH
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:59pmHey slowjoe, you don’t “DIG” your way out of a hold! “Digging” only makes the prob. deeper! You put the shovel down, get out of the way, and let free enterprize fill it in!
Report Post »quiltgal
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:11pmIf you’re digging your hole through the center of the earth, you will eventually come out the other side (and become part of China), but it will take a long, long time. This appears to what they are doing.
Report Post »oicu814me2
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:29pmLOL. I thought the same thing. “” We are digging, but the hole is getting deeper”“ ”“ We need 4 more years of digging to get out of this hole”” In upside down world this makes perfect sense.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:36pm“Let’s continue to add opportunity, let’s bring this American dream back, let’s guarantee that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will have a chance to get ahead, that your children will have a chance to get ahead.”
Report Post »——————————————
– they don’t believe their own dribble, DO THEY?
GoodSis
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 2:47pmBLAZINGTRUTH, good observation. Gibbs’ comment really does shows how backwards the liberal thought process is with this astounding display of economic ignorance (so much for their “FORWARD!” cry.)
I Could not help but to think:
- At what point does the hole we’re digging become our grave?
-Why didn’t he advice us to LEAP OUT OF THIS FINANCIAL GRAVE WHILE WE STILL CAN?
- Is it just misguided ideology, or are they taking us to where they want us? Either way, the consequences are devastating to our Country and they must be stopped and stripped of their power to affect our future.
It’s time to cut non-essential government offices with fluffy, non-constitutional services. Like most Americans who can read the writing on the wall, I’m ready to “squeak by” with a smaller government in order save our economy. We will survive it–rip off the bandage, clean out the festering wound, and get on with the healing!
Report Post »OhSnappage
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:54pmReally Sherlock? Tell us what else you “just” discovered mister “senior advisor”. Boy will he be surprised to discover the wonders of sliced bread. His whole way life may very well change.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:51pmStop immigration if there is not enough jobs so the immigrants don’t get screwed over as well.
Report Post »Paul
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:25pmYou mean the illegals…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:44pm@Paul
Indy doesn’t know what he means. He’s a complete idiot. And to think that he “claims” to be a college student….. well, maybe that’s what his problem is. Oh, and Indy…. your grammar sucks!
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:04pmor Manchurian candidates like monk.
Report Post »Paul
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 6:46pmI see your point Monk !
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:41pmi guess the truth hurts you commie so you got the comment removed by some commies on here on the blaze, guess someone has to go back and choose another major that is employable.
Report Post »bulletboy
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:51pmGosh, Howdy Doody is smart…Go get um, Ralph Mouth. The Dummy Administration strikes again.
Report Post »myway
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:47pmWe agree Mr. Gibbs you have not done anything important. I will be back I am going to write a letter of support.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:43pmIf you were President and you were interested in creating jobs,would you be hellbent on increasing regulations and taxes or lowering them?????
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:42pm“…or Obama wanting to grow the economy “from the middle class out.” – Bobby “Baby-Faced” Gibbs
So what’s he trying to say about the “lower” class?
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:42pmthats right robert I have to borrow some more money so I can pay off my credit card, think of the jobs I will create,for credit card companys, government workers to process my food stamps,and more goverment bureaucrates to help me get a new mortgage so at least I can live in my house another 6 more months before I have to borrow more money to pay my mortgage payments while I’m collecting unemployment cks because I refuse to work at a low paying job ,because I made big bucks working at a UAW plant pushing a broom
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:42pmLess is more, Gibbs. Why don’t these knuckleheads get it?? The federal government is the problem and needs to get out of the way to allow our country to flourish again.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:36pmWith 2 years of cartblanche legislation and another year and a half of blaming the House of representatives this administration has only made things harder on us. For 2 years it was Bush’s fault, then for the next year and a half it was the fault of Bush and the House of Rpresentatives. The Administration claims it’s everybodys fault but theirs. If this is true my question is this, except for spending time playing the blame game, going on vacation, playing golf and running for another term, what has President Obama done for us, the American people??????
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:45pmThe answer to your question is both simple and profound –
Obammy has gotten in the way. That is what he has done for the American People.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:36pmHey Gibbs ….why aren‘t you bragging about the 16000 plus Jobs y’all added……TO THE IRS!!!!!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:32pmThey are still following the same old routine: Blame Bush and everyone else for their own mess. Its been nearly four years for Obama in office, he now owns the mess.
Report Post »Insolent
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 4:36pmIt never ceases to amaze me, all the “blame Bush” rhetoric.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:30pmOh NO! Robert Gibbs is kidding, right?
Report Post »I mean, I thought the recession was over, back in 2009, WHEN BOTH OBAMMY & SLOW JOE BIDEN SAID IT WAS OVER?!?!?
chips1
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:29pmI guess someone forgot to get his attention with a 2×4. Jacka$$.
Report Post »demsaredumb
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:24pmIt is hard to believe that people are as ignorant on the economy as the majority of democrats are. I guess they believe that if you take from one group of people and give to another group of people that will grow the economy. I guess it is the new math taught in schools now, if little johnny believes 2+2 = 5 then it must be so, does not matter what reality is.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:31pmBut that would be okay in the LAUSD where “D” is a passing grade.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:35pmWhat’s even harder to believe is that these so-called intelligentsia actually believe the verbal diarrhea coming out of their own mouths!
Report Post »BeeDee
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 7:39pmWhen they take money from “the rich”, it doesn‘t count because they have enough already and don’t need 75% of their hard-earned and deserved money. But when they give it away to their pets, I mean the poor and down-trodden, THEN it counts. That is how this administration creates wealth.
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:20pmHow much money does one have to be paid to defend what is going on in Washington DC at this point in time?
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:35pmI think you should direct your question at the talking heads on Channels 2,4,5,7,9,11,13, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, KPFK, and Bill Handel and Rich Marotta on KFI, Dan Blather and Walter Cronkite, The Oprah, Bill Maher, Hollywood elitists and their sycophants just to name a very few…
…all who would rather sell their souls to the Devil.
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:19pm“We‘re not growing fast enough and we’re not adding enough jobs,” Gibbs said on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
Report Post »Mission accomplished, as Rush would say.
Z
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:19pmBlah, Blah, Blah. I have never worked for a poor person.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:18pmDamn that “W” ! Hey has Gibbs been offered any of those “objective journalist” jobs at any of the networks yet ? It‘s hard to distinguish between oblameo’s administration and the “MSM” ,where is that damn line I can’t find it.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:17pm“We have been, and typically when you come out of a recession the depth that we were in…it takes a while to dig out of that hole,” Gibbs said”
When you have toothpicks, yep gonna take a while to dig out. However, usa a shovel to remove the crap, it will take less time. I am tired of these idiots. Obama better lose in November.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:53pmThe tool needed to clean up after the oblameo administration is tossed out will officially have to be called a pooper scooper . It take a damn big one though.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 1:02pmThey never even take into consideration they (Dems) dug the hole in the first place and to keep digging is not the answer. If you suddenly find yourself in a hole, sometimes it is best to stop digging.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:13pmWhat other brilliant observations do you have, Captain Obvious?
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 3:35pmCaptain Obvious would admit we’re not digging out of a hole, but digging it deeper.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on July 8, 2012 at 12:13pmJust another un-American traitor that needs to be tried for treason!!!
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