From RealClearPolitics.com:

REP. MAXINE WATERS (D-CA): “We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these jobs losses, over 170 million jobs that could be lost – and so he made it very clear he’s not opposed to cuts but cuts must be done over a long period of time and in a very planned way rather than this blunt cutting that will be done by sequestration.”

Video bearing this statement:

An impressive figure, to say the least.

But there’s a problem.

There are only 140 million jobs in the entire United States.

BZ

P.S.
Perhaps even more stupid (little shock to any of my readers, no doubt) but not as recent: