$111B worth of BS and more coal jobs BS
Jun. 6th, 2017 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsThe business community is waking up to the thought that our so-called president might not deliver on his lofty promises.
The Brookings Institute:
Checking the data on coal jobs:
Unfortunately, the Covfefe administration seems to believe its own propaganda.
The Brookings Institute:
There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts.
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The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms sales wing of the Pentagon, calls them “intended sales.” None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/markaz/2017/06/05/the-110-billion-arms-deal-to-saudi-arabia-is-fake-news/
Checking the data on coal jobs:
The Environmental Protection Agency head [Scott Pruitt] said that the “coal sector” added 7,000 jobs in May and “almost 50,000 jobs” since the fourth quarter of last year. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports an increase of just 400 coal mining jobs in May and 1,300 since December.
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/scott-pruitt-coal-jobs/
Unfortunately, the Covfefe administration seems to believe its own propaganda.
