a secretary of business that was something that mitt romney ridiculed yesterday as he made an appearance in virginia. you see, i don t think that what we need is another government bureaucrat that supposedly knows something about job creation. i think it would be helpful to have a president who actually understands job creation. we will find out what those job numbers are in about three hours. if they are right and we are talking in the neighborhood of 21,000 jobs created last month that is a little better than last month but below the average monthly job creation number we have been seeing through the course of the year. back to you guys. doug luzader thank you so much. on to another story now a very important one. this is a question a lot of folks are asking now. one of the guards who was assigned to protect americans in benghazi affiliated with terrorists? a letter was found at the scene that implies that that was exactly the case. peter doocy joins us live in washington with
but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don t keep. maybe they intend to keep some of them. maybe they don t. politifact.com tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he s kept 37% of those promises. he s working on 23% of them. he s broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn t kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because your lawmakers won t do a thing about them. i have spent the last few months blaming congress for things, but it s not congress who is going to stand in the way of romney s ridiculous promise. it s the state of the u.s. economy. 12 million jobs over four years, that s what romney is promising. that s 3 million jobs a year or an average of 250,000 jobs per month every month for an entire presidency. i
will join me in a minute. i ll ask him whether mitt romney was absent or sleeping when he approved that claim. but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don t keep. we tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he s kept 37% of those promises. he s working on 23% of them. he s broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn t kept. some of those broken promises can be blamed on congress. they are stalled because your lawmakers won t do a thing about them. i blame congress for things, but it s not congress that s going to stand in the way of romney s ridiculous promise, it s the state of the u.s. economy. 12 million jobs over four years, that s what romney is promising. that s 3 million jobs a year or an average of 250,000 jobs per month every month for an entire pre
is it enough to say we are back on the upslope after one uptick there in the job creation number? we need to create bring unemployment down to 6.6%. we are well capable of doing that mr. reagan i object laterred a bigger mess, unemployment peeked for him at 10.4% unlike obama s 10 and by this time, he had unemployment down to about 7. and with a lot more people looking whereas with this president, a lot of people have quit looking. we had 348,000 people quit the labor force if think hadn t done that unemployment would have jumped to 8.5 or 8.6%. also looking at the numbers as it relates to manufacturing. some saying we have come back to the point where we were right prior to the recession. which is manufacturing is kind of getting back to that point of 2007. but, 5 million people still out of work.
again. it went down in april. it went down in may. the index now stands at 64.9. in february, it was at 71.6. we ve seen a pretty steady decline since february, which you know, tell me, matt, seems to mirror what we ve seen on jobs creation front in terms of the fall. as the job creation number goes down, consumer confidence goes down, small businesses get hurt. because people don t have confidence they don t want to go out and spend. they don t want to hire matt mechanical. they want to put their money in the mattress. if small business isn t hiring more people out of work. more people out of work higher unemployment. it may not be you or i but a neighbor or cousin we know. you lose confidence in the economy. you may be making more money than last year. your confidence going forward in the future of this country is falling you are spending less. the less you spend, the less need there is for me to hire somebody because my goods and services that i sell the