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SunsetDreams

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16. Romney Pledges 6% Unemployment – Exactly What CBO Already Projects

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Wed May 23, 2012, 02:10 PM

May 2012

Mitt Romney, who often chides President Obama for presiding over unenployment rates above 8%, told TIME that he would get that number down to 6% as president.

Oddly enough, that’s almost exactly where the Congressional Budget Office predicts unemployment will be at the end of the next presidential term. While hardly the most reliable number this far out, CBO’s latest report sees unemployment dropping to the low-sixes in 2016 en route to about 5.5% unemployment by the end of 2017.

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Romney Promises an Unemployment rate of 6% [View all] WI_DEM May 2012 OP

Mitt's already changing his numbers. They weren't the right height. JoePhilly May 2012 #1

Give him time and he'll be back to his other numbers. Liberal Veteran May 2012 #4

But no pony? No deal. Liberal Veteran May 2012 #2

We he promise to commit seppuku if he fails? rfranklin May 2012 #3

re: "anything over 4%" cthulu2016 May 2012 #5

5% was achieved through a real estate driven bubble economy dkf May 2012 #11

Let me finish ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2012 #6

Will it really take a 2 or 3 million people to park his cars, mow his lawns, and sinkingfeeling May 2012 #7

+1 uponit7771 May 2012 #9

He can use a few humdred people to pull the ropes, that raise and lower JoePhilly May 2012 #23

Yeah Life Long Dem May 2012 #8

Do slave workers count Politicalboi May 2012 #10

Is That It?? Hutzpa May 2012 #12

Don't forget one thing. Plenty of body bags. Zanzoobar May 2012 #13

On airport CNN that story was immediately followed with: Initech May 2012 #14

At $1.75 an hour. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2012 #15

Romney Pledges 6% Unemployment – Exactly What CBO Already Projects SunsetDreams May 2012 #16

Did he say HOW? Or just throw out pretty numbers to sound good? CakeGrrl May 2012 #17

No no no, Mittens. Arkana May 2012 #18

Repubes always told me "it's not the President's job to create jobs" when Obama and Gore ran... cbdo2007 May 2012 #19

that was then ... this is now .... of course /S nt littlewolf May 2012 #22

How and by When? SoutherDem May 2012 #20

Where - in China? HopeHoops May 2012 #21

Yeah, EC May 2012 #24

...so he can have the fun of laying them off by the thousands LiberalEsto May 2012 #25