Rand Paul's Abbott and Costello Routine
Rand Paul vs Paul Krugman Excerpt:
Rand Paul: "Are you arguing that there are fewer government employees under Obama than there were under Bush??"
Paul Krugman: "That's a fact. That's a dramatic fact!"
Rand Paul: "The size of government is enormous under President Obama!"
Paul Krugman: "If government employment had grown as fast under President Obama as under President Bush, we'd have a million and a half more people employed!"
Government Employees At Thirty Year Low!
Rand Paul advanced the traditional GOP line that govt is ballooning and blowing up under Obama. The problem is they aren't.
Most government jobs are things like teachers, firemen - state employees have been drastically cut. In total, 600K fewer government employees during Obama's tenure than are employed than during Bush's presidency.
If At First You Get Pawned By A Nobel Prize Economist, Then Change The Words And Argument!
On Monday, Rand decided "Are you arguing there are fewer government employees under Obama?" was actually, "fewer FEDERAL (governement) employees under Obama".
Rand went on to cite 140K new jobs created at the federal level under Obama. The problem is he excluded federal post office employees...
"The size of government is enormous under President Obama!"
Adding ALL federal employees hired from when Obama took office until now, federal employment rose an 'enormous' 1%. Not nearly enough to cover the population increase. Nor enough to cover the losses of government employment at the state levels. Rand Paul cherry picked data that he never said and still was wrong! Government is NOT enormous under Obama! Not by ANY metrics used to measure government employment OR federal government employment.
A Paul Is A Paul But Not Krugman
Bill Clinton's economic errors were isolated at the DNC. Paul Ryan got his hand caught in the 'lying' cookie jar several times during his RNC speech. From medicare to plant closings, fact checkers had a field day. Paul Ryan then doubled down on the lie.
Faulted Obama for failing to deliver a 2008 campaign promise to keep a Wisconsin plant open. It closed less than a month before Obama took office. Obama wanting the plant to succeed and getting elected was somehow tied to the plant's closure.
Repeat You Are Right But Change What You Said... And Still Be Wrong!
Paul Ryan said accurately that the plant didn't last a year after Obama visited it on the campaign trail. Whereas Rand Paul was completely false! He was false in his statements "The size of government is enormous under President Obama!" as well as his presumption that there are more federal employees under Obama versus Bush.
Rand Paul said Paul Krugman who is a "supposedly smart man" was "manipulating the numbers". At least, Krugman knew the accurate numbers if he ever want to manipulate them! Even after changing what he said, Rand Paul was still wrong about how "government is enormous"!
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