Romney’s False Claim that Obama Lost 100,000 Auto Jobs

Mitt Romney’s claim is shown to be factually incorrect.

In vehicle and vehicle parts manufacturing, the total number of jobs has increased by 73,000. For dealers, the gain has been nearly 30,000. So, all told, that’s more than 100,000 — instead of a decrease of 100,000 as Romney claims.

It is a little more difficult to isolate the automobile-only numbers because the manufacturing number is not seasonally adjusted. So, in that case, we have to use January-to-January figures. But that also shows a total gain of about 50,000 jobs in the auto industry.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.