My response to a viral Facebook post with 5 falsehoods about the Obama economic record:
The original graphic was by the Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC), a religious-Right organization with a budget well over $10 million and a plan for delivering its messages directly to hundreds of thousands of voters in each of at least 15 states, through printed materials as well as text messages to cell phones.
Rather than prepare a long explanation of the falsehoods, this graphic can quickly be posted as a response the original FFC graphic.
Please share widely!
1. Labor force — unemployment
selected unemployment indicators, not seasonally adjusted
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea13.pdf
for 2009 data:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
2. Solar Panel prices
http://web.archive.org/web/20090625110659/http://www.pvinsights.com/
http://pvinsights.com/RetailerPrice.php
3. Federal Deficit
September 2012
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2012/opds092012.pdf
July 2009 http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2009/opds072009.pdf
4. Stock Market
http://Finance.google.com
5. Number of Government Employees
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost
…but how do the two posters come up with such varying numbers for Americans out of work?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/31/news/economy/eastwood-unemployment/index.html