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djean111

(14,255 posts)
2. Just like "Americans for Prosperity" is for the prosperity of anyone but the Kochs.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:21 PM
Mar 2015

Hubris. And stupid if they didn't think anyone would catch on to the artificiality or the drive to subvert or circumvent actual liberals.

Another BS "grassroots" fakery and sham.

The “Progressive Coalition for American Jobs” sent out a press release earlier this week promising that the TPP will “support hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the United States.”



The Washington Post’s Fact Checker looked at this “hundreds of thousands of new jobs” claim on January 30, in “The Obama administration’s illusionary job gains from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” The conclusion:

Our advice remains: be wary whenever a politician claims a policy will yield bountiful jobs. In this case, the correct number is zero (in the long run), not 650,000, according to the very study used to calculate this number. Administration officials earn Four Pinocchios for their fishy math.


That's not fishy math, although it stinks. It is Corporate Math.

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