Big lie being pushed by the GOP around town recently: Obama has hired 500,000 new federal workers

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/aug/08/pete-sessions/pete-sessions-federal-government-has-gained-500000/

Pete Sessions: Federal government has gained 500,000 workers under Obama while private sector suffered

Pete Sessions on Friday, July 30th, 2010 in a speech in the U.S. House

<snip>Next, we contacted the BLS for more detail on the employment numbers.

What we learned: Nearly all of the uptick in federal workers from early 2009 to June 2010 reflects temporary hires by the U.S. Census Bureau, which is conducting the constitutionally required census of U.S. residents.

Nathan Clausen, a bureau economist, provided a BLS report indicating that 6,000 census workers were employed in February 2009, a number that shot up to 564,000 in May 2010 before decreasing to 339,000 in June 2010, according to the BLS. The increase of 333,000 census workers from February 2009 to June 2010 amounts to 88 percent of the 379,000 overall increase in federal workers.

Not counting the temporary census workers leaves 46,000 other federal workers added on Obama’s watch. Clausen said it’s not possible to divine from the bureau’s database precisely where those workers were added.

[krispos42]

1. Ah, not only false outrage, last's years rehashed false outrage

Yummy!

[JuniperLea]

2. Yep... that's all they have...

Pathetic when you have to reheat leftovers and try to pass them off as fresh.

[krispos42]

3. I wonder why Obama won't release his long-form birth certificate???

:-)

[JuniperLea]

4. Hahahaha!

Yeah! I hope they bring that one back too! I just can't get enough of that burning stupidity!

:rofl:

[w8liftinglady]

5. damn- we Texas democrats have our hands full.

Sessions is a member of a long line of Republican pricks.

I apologize.