This is the second time today his administration has blamed Europe for this morning’s jobs numbers.
Via Washington Examiner:
President Obama attributed the rise in unemployment to European struggles and high gas prices in the United States, when he spoke to Minnesotans today.
“As we learned in today’s jobs report, we’re still not creating them as fast as we want,” Obama said. “We had high gas prices, a month two months ago,” he said, “and then, most prominently, most recently, we’ve had a crisis in Europe’s economy that is having an impact worldwide; and it’s starting to cast a shadow on our own [economy] as well.”
“We can’t fully control what happens in other parts of the world,” Obama said, again citing “what’s going on in Europe.”
He then blamed Congress for failing to pass his jobs bill. “Congress should’ve passed a bill a long time ago to put thousands of construction workers back on the job,” he said.