Geithner: Romney claims on women and job losses ‘ridiculous and very misleading’
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Source: Washington Post
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Sunday pushed back against the argument made by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and allies that women were the biggest losers of jobs during the Obama administration.
In a series of Sunday TV show appearances, Geithner repeatedly called the GOP claim ridiculous and very misleading, and argued that Republicans were selectively reporting job losses for part of the recession to attack the president.
Geithners public remarks came amid a heated campaign battle between the camps of President Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee to win over female voters. Geithner, in three appearances Sunday, came out swinging against Romneys recent claims that the Obama administration had waged an economic war against women.
Romney had said earlier this week that the real war on women has been waged by the policies of the Obama administration . . . did you know that of all the jobs lost during the Obama years, 92.3 percent of them are women? During the Obama years, women have suffered.
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dkf
(37,305 posts)No?
spooky3
(34,452 posts)They describe how the biggest early losses were in male-dominated industries, and this occurred before January 2009, when Obama took office. Romney and his friends are looking only at net jobs lost since that date--and refusing to acknowledge that even the vast majority of post 1/09 losses are attributable to pre-Obama administration actions and inactions.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Looks like I need to look closer to tear apart the argument.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Gee are they trying to say government spending on teachers should not have been cut? I'd like to hear them be more full throated on that argument.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)A lot of Public employees are women... Republicans have been very good at cutting Government jobs....and not producing any priovate jobs as an offset..
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)This was CBS Farce the Nation
alp227
(32,025 posts)spooky3
(34,452 posts)accurate", when in fact they are a classic case of lying and misleading with a deliberate cherry-picking (and worse) of statistics.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)On the one hand, it was manufacturing and construction, predominantly male occupations, that took the first hit in this recession. It only follows naturally that the "service" jobs would follow as state and local governments slash programs such as teachers, etc.
But on the other I call foul on Timothy Geithner. He is a Wall Street hack that should NEVER have been appointed to his position. He is exactly the opposite of what we need. Good God this is like putting the wolf in charge of the hen house. I have nothing good to say about him and about Obama's decision to name him to this position.