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WaPo Fact-Checks Biden* Twice With ‘Four Pinocchios’ Over Jobs Claim in CHIPS Act
Quote:During a White House signing ceremony earlier this month for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, legislation that will provide subsidies to bolster domestic manufacturing of computer chips and similar technology amid rising tensions with China, Biden’s claim about the number of jobs the bill would create earned him “four Pinocchios” in a Washington Post fact check on Thursday.

Biden bragged that the legislation will create 1 million new construction jobs over the next half-dozen years.

“There’s an analysis that says investment in the Chips and Science Act will create 1 million — more than 1 million construction jobs alone over the next six years building semiconductor factories in America,” Biden claimed.

The president made the same claim on Twitter just a couple of days later.

“Investments in the CHIPS and Science Law will create more than 1 million construction jobs alone over the next 6 years building semiconductor factories in America,” his Twitter account said.

But fact-checkers said that the real number of construction jobs likely to be created by expanding chip factories in the U.S. is around 6,200.

“We’ve learned from experience that when a president utters a big job-creation number, it’s ripe for fact-checking,” fact-checker Glen Kessler wrote in The Washington Post. “So we were curious to learn how the president’s job prediction for the Chips and Science Act — which will provide nearly $53 billion for U.S. semiconductor research, development, manufacturing and workforce development — was developed.”

Kessler noted that Biden “mentioned an ‘analysis’ as the source for the claim that 1 million construction jobs would be created. … But we were puzzled when we did not see the figure in the White House’s ‘fact sheet’ on the bill.”

“It turns out this number is wildly exaggerated,” Kessler added, noting that his “first tip-off” that the number may be false was the sheer size.

“The second tip-off is that Biden was specific — 1 million construction jobs in six years. Before the pandemic tanked jobs, the U.S. economy took four years to add 1 million construction jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data — from all industries, not just the semiconductor business,” he explained.

“[T]he president stumbled badly here,” Kessler wrote. “In public remarks, and then in a tweet, he claimed 1 million construction jobs would be created because of the Chips Act. The real number was just 6,200, according to the industry-commissioned report cited as the source.

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RE: WaPo Fact-Checks Biden* Twice With ‘Four Pinocchios’ Over Jobs Claim in CHIPS Act
How many people remember Tommy Flanagan? He must be Biden's head writer now?

Yeah, that's the ticket!

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RE: WaPo Fact-Checks Biden* Twice With ‘Four Pinocchios’ Over Jobs Claim in CHIPS Act
So when will President Houseplant Biden* take one of the several cognitive tests out there like MMSE? Why delay the inevitable?

https://www.alz.org/getmedia/9687d51e-64...nt-toolkit

“The president stumbled badly here,” Kessler wrote. “In public remarks, and then in a tweet, he claimed 1 million construction jobs would be created because of the Chips Act. The real number was just 6,200, according to the industry-commissioned report cited as the source."

DAYAM.....hard to try to spin that wild @ss discrepancy in the numbers! Biden* is just mentally imbalanced/challenged due to his second stage Alzheimer's. The thing about AD is a person will remember something from 30-40 years ago but can't tell you what they had for lunch yesterday. My point is Biden*'s memory is draining more quickly; probably doesn't remember what he had for dinner last night but probably fondly recalls showering with his pre-teen daughter back in the mid 70's ("probably inappropriate" as she said in one of her letters, LOL).

It also explains why Biden* has taken so much vacation and runs off to his beach house or Camp David for 4 or 5 day weekends at the drop of a bicycle.

Here is TRUTH: it is obvious Joe's handlers simply REFUSE to have him take any cognitive test because they KNOW how humiliating it will be. Imagine that dumb@ss trying to count backwards by 7 from 100, LOL.

Give him the test, publicize his results and then make the formal announcement he is resigning due to "(mental) health issues".
08-22-2022 12:17 PM
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Do you think he actually is tweeting anything himself? His handlers take care of that.
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