The Washington Post Fact Checker gives Romney's job creation math four Pinocchio's

"Hey if I'm in the White House and jobs improve, how is that not all about me?"

Courtesy of the Washington Post:  

This is a case of bait-and-switch. Romney, in his convention speech, spoke of his plan to create “12 million new jobs,” which the campaign’s white paper describes as a four-year goal. 

But the candidate’s personal accounting for this figure in this campaign ad is based on different figures and long-range timelines stretching as long as a decade — which in two cases are based on studies that did not even evaluate Romney’s economic plan. The numbers may still add up to 12 million, but they aren’t the same thing — not by a long shot. 

In many ways, this episode offers readers a peek behind a campaign wizard’s curtain — and a warning that job-creation claims by any campaign should not be accepted at face value. The white paper at least has the credibility of four well-known economists behind it, but the “new math” of this campaign ad does not add up. 

As readers know, we tend to judge more harshly claims in prepared speeches or ads that were the result of considered discussion by political aides. 

Clearly, some clever campaign staffer thought it would be nice to match up poll-tested themes such as “energy independence,” “tax reform” and “cracking down on China” with actual job numbers. We just find it puzzling that Romney agreed to personally utter these words without asking more questions about the math behind them.

As mentioned before in other articles, Romney's claim of his ability to create 12 million new jobs during his four year term, is predicted by economists to occur NO MATTER WHO gets elected! All Romney did was try and take credit for it ahead of time, kind of like noticing clouds rolling in and suddenly predicting rain.

I have said it before, and I will say it again, there is NOTHING in Mitt Romney's past experience that indicates that he has ANY idea how to create jobs in this country. NOTHING!


So the math produced by the Romney campaign to take advantage and credit for this ALREADY PREDICTED job expansion is essentially just smoke and mirrors.

You know, much like the REST of Romney's campaign of empty promises.