Political Quotes

“I would like to read a few excerpts from yesterday's Washington Times editorial entitled ``New Job Numbers.'' Now the Washington Times, everybody knows, is not exactly a progressive or liberal paper, very conservative. And I quote: ``For the third consecutive month, the Labor Department reported disappointing numbers for job growth. June payroll employment increased by only 121,000 jobs, well below the median projection of 200,000 jobs. And that is on top of May's payrolls increased by only 92,000 jobs, which follows a disappointing 112,000 in April. Altogether, job growth during the second quarter was a disappointing 325,000 jobs, the lowest quarterly increase since 2003. ``The net increase in payroll employment since August has averaged 160,000 jobs. This is to contrast throughout the Clinton administration where employment increased on average 237,000 jobs per month. ``On average, 25,000 private sector jobs have been created each month since January 2001. That is 25,000. During the Clinton administration, private sector employment increased on average 217,000 jobs per month. ``And then, on top of that, average real weekly earnings of the 80 percent of the private sector workers who are employed in production or nonsupervisory capacity, approximately 91 million Americans, have increased by less than 1 quarter of 1 percent since January 2001.…”