Claim: Ooops! Republicans — eager to show that President Obama's oil and gas drilling policies "cost jobs" — have been using a number they now admit was more than three times too high. Even after they corrected their error , they started using a figure that is based on industry-sponsored studies, uses dubious assumptions and doesn't apply to any jobs that currently exist. It's just the latest example of how both sides tend to use grossly exaggerated claims about jobs when debating their pet policies.
Fact-check: GOP's Phantom Job Losses - FactCheck.org
Verdict: ooops! republicans — eager to show that president obama's oil and gas drilling policies "cost jobs" — have been using a number they now admit was more than three times too high. even after they corrected their error , they started using a figure that is based on industry-sponsored studies, uses dubious assumptions and doesn't apply to any jobs that currently exist. it's just the latest example of how both sides tend to use grossly exaggerated claims about jobs when debating their pet policies.
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Eugene Kiely
Date published: 2011-11-22T21:42:50