‘The Epitaph of This Admin’
Gary Bauer’s somber assessment.
Conservative pundit and American Values president Gary Bauer offered this somber assessment of Barack Obama’s presidency at Friday’s “Road to Majority” conference, hosted by the Faith & Freedom Coalition: “This ought to be the epitaph of this administration: In the last five years under this president, more babies have been aborted than jobs have been created.” CNSNews reports, “About 1.2 million babies were aborted surgically in the United States in 2008 (or about 100,000 per month), according to the Guttmacher Institute. If that number has stayed generally constant, then over the last five and a half years of the Obama administration, about 6.6 million babies have been aborted.” Even using the administration’s skewed statistics, this represents a gap of roughly 3 million: “According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics seasonally-adjusted employment numbers,” CNS adds, “there were 142,152,000 million people employed in January 2009, when Obama was inaugurated. In May 2014, the latest month on record, there were 145,814,000 people employed–an increase of 3,662,000 million.” More…