Mitt Romney says 'the economy is coming back,' blames President Obama

by Jed Lewison

Mitt Romney, delivering a mouthful of spaghetti logic in lieu of a campaign message:


When Mitt Romney launched his campaign, he said the reason he was running was that the economy was in dire straits and America needed his skills as a job creator to get back on track. Then Newt Gingrich challenged his skills as a job creator and he said anybody who attacked his business experience was an enemy of free enterprise. Now he says the economy is coming back, but it's President Obama's fault that it took so long.

According to Romney, the reason the economy is coming back is that it "always comes back after a recession"—no matter what the president does. How does he square that with his claim that America needs a president with his (claimed) experience as a job creator? He doesn't. He simply makes the vacuous claim that if it weren't for President Obama, the economy would have recovered more quickly, as if he took a bad situation and made it worse.

Actually, President Obama took an extraordinarily bad recession and stopped it from becoming a second Great Depression. When he took office we were losing nearly one million jobs per month. We've now had the best year of private sector job growth in the past five years. In fact, President Obama in just three years has a better private sector job growth record than George W. Bush had in eight years. (And under Mitt Romney, Massachusetts ranked 47th.)

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