claim: "this is what president obama said the jobless rate would be if we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent."
author: american crossroads
evidence_1: oct 11, 2012 ... they said that, right now, if we just passed this stimulus, the economy would grow  at 4 percent. ... a super pac ad took it even further, saying obama promised  unemployment topping out at 5.6 percent. ... with the stimulus, they predicted the  unemployment rate would peak at just under 8 percent in 2009.
evidence_2: aug 2, 2013 ... in january 2009, team obama economists put together a report — half  quantitative analysis, half sales pitch — outlining the potential economic impact  of the proposed $800 billion stimulus. (see above chart from that report.) if  congress passed the plan, the report forecasted, the economy would generate ...
evidence_3: oct 22, 2012 ... romney also said, "the president said by now we'd be a 5.4 percent  unemployment." we've rated a similar claim in a tv ad from american  crossroads, that "this is what president obama said the jobless rate would be if  we passed the stimulus: 5.6 percent." but we found that's a stretch. we rated the  ad's ...
evidence_4: feb 16, 2015 ... 'if we're honest, part of the controversy also is that despite the extraordinary work  that has been done through the recovery act, millions of americans are still ...  flashback: obama's economic advisors predicted that the stimulus would  bring the unemployment rate down to 5 percent by 2014.
evidence_5: jul 8, 2012 ... back in 2009 president obama predicted his stimulus bill would help push the  unemployment rate to 5.6 percent by july 2012. ... "even if you were to believe  that government spending can trigger economic growth," says veronique de  rugy, reason columnist and senior research fellow at the mercatus ...