Where are the jobs? UPDATE: Hey, I didn’t mean change we could believe in tomorrow!
This video was put together by the House majority whip that it pretty much sums up our current economic situation. Pretty powerful stuff!
Thanks to the blog prof for finding this one.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afExuSaXgiI&feature=player_embedded
Follow the link back the blog prof, he has another great video there for you as well. Where did the stimulus money go?
UPDATE: This is from the young President delivered at his Chicago fundraiser Wednesday.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo2MZx5F1CE&feature=player_embedded#at=30
Oh no … you mean he’s not done yet?
UPDATE 2: Remember this. Debbie Wasserman Schultz … we own this economy.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amGAs_gx3W8
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Yeah, he needs another four years so he can take us from the event horizon directly into the economic black hole.
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Would you rehire a plumber that broke your pipes?? Not likely.
“Details forthcoming later”…”specifics later on”…”He’s the President of the United States”…”You’ll have to wait for when we’re ready to provide more specifics”…
“We have made some incredible strides together”…”we were inheriting so many challenges”…”we’re not even halfway there yet”…
Please, oh please tell me these vague details and talking points are going to be the cornerstone of his reelection campaign because if so, they just simply will not work this time.? The “inherited” crap just ain’t gonna fly–not after three years, not after he’s never produced a budget, not with unemployment in double digits.? Just a reminder, Mr. I’m-The-President:? You inherited unemployment that was at 5%.? WTH happened to that???
You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own set of facts-5% -where did you pull that number from (um, never mind).
Bush II inherited a 4.2% unemployment rate and increased it to 7.7%. Furthermore…every democratic president reduced unemployment and every republican president (except for reagan/bush I) increased it. (And reagan decresed it by only -.2%).
To clarify (from National Review Online “Job Creation:? Bush vs. Obama”, Veronique de Rugy):
“During the Bush presidency, net total employment went up by 1.08 million jobs. So far, during the Obama presidency, total employment has been reduced by 3.3 million jobs.
Under Bush, private employment shrank by 673,000 jobs, federal employment grew by 50,000 jobs, and government employment grew by 1,753,000 jobs.
Under Obama, the private sector has shed some 2.9 million jobs while the federal government has grown by 40,000 (after growing massively, the federal workforce shrank throughout the summer). Total government jobs, however, shrank by 357,000 jobs, mainly because of cuts at the state and local levels.
Now, we can?t really compare these numbers, because we have eight years of Bush data and only two years of Obama data.”
Perhaps I disremembered the percentage but my heart was in the right place and that’s all that should matter to a lefty…When Obama has failed miserably on his number one priority (that three-letter word “j-o-b-s”), I’m going with “Epic Fail”.
And you pull your facts from where, crystal4?
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Still waiting for this Democratic President to decrease unemplyment even to the 8% that he promised it would not go above would be nice.
Crystal, where?are the jobs we keep hearing about??
They’re coming because of all the “jobs, jobs, jobs” bills that the new House promised and passed!
You mean the bill the House AND Senate passed and that the president signed off on.
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What you see is a result of the several times the president put a “laser like focus” on the economy.
Dims, I don’t know about you, but I find it very disheartening that liberals are so unfamiliar with our structure of government that they think the House of Representatives can pass a bill into law all by its lonesome.? *sigh*
You mean all the bills the House passed and Reid won’t bring up for a vote?
In answer to Reagan’s famous question of 1980:? “No, he’s made it worse.”? By what single measure has this president made anything demonstrably better?
Maybe the metric that measures the amount of people that don’t pay income taxes…
Yes, I remember well when the crop of freshmen Repub House members were elected on the slogan of “jobs, jobs, jobs”. Oh, not here yet? Not enough time since they took over the House? But, wait there will be tax reforms that will take hold some years from now and the private sector will produce jobs without end.
Hmmm.? How much time did they spend (waste) making the budget that the Democrats couldn’t find the time to make last year?
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I seem to remember that ?bama has been all about “jobs, jobs, jobs”, has had the time, and has certainly spent the money, but produced zilch for results.? But wait!? There will be all sorts of mandates and taxes and ?bamacare that will kick in after the election that will make everything better!
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Remember that too?
*banging my head*:? The House of Representatives cannot pass legislation by itself.? Anything passed in the House must then go to the democrat controlled senate where it must be placed on the schedule for a senate vote & then be vetoed or signed off on by the president.?
You don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to blaming the Republican House when it comes to jobs legislation.
Yes, I do and he blew it. Now how about the new set of fiscal/financial? “magicians”?
Hahaha. It’s always Bush’s fault with the left-wing terrorist kooks. O’Bama will never take responsibility for anything his focus groups think is negative. He never has; he’s not going to start now. The only jobs out there seem to be for Soro4 paid fanatical bloggers who spread their lies about President Bush, the GOP and the TEA Party, and then post made up facts and figures to prop up O’Bama. Illiberals really need therapy to cure them from their addiction to lying and getting their own way on everything. They would be funny if they weren’t so prone to violence.
Obama ahs met 50% of his campaign promises change but no hope.
Liberal/progressives will never believe that the only real engine of growth in America are private sector jobs. That sector showed a decline during Bush, and MASSIVELY accelerated downward under O-Hoover. We will not be on any kind of even economic footing until the Socialists stop?stunting the growth (and start-up) of?small to medium sized companies through outright punitive?red tape and?both overt and?carefully hidden taxation strategies.?
Crystal&Sammy just so you know the House Republicans do have a plan
http://majorityleader.gov/Jobs/HRP_JOBS.pdf
Even the huffington Post can’t take zero’s?dismal jobs jobs jobs anymore. This is what they put together
http://video.aol.com/aolvideo/aol-video/huffpost-politics-the-obama-pivot-to-jobs-deja-vu-reel/1094435817001
Yes, TomL, the Repubs have a plan. Where is it going? Nowhere, and where are they now? On vacation with the rest of the Congress. I wrote above, that the President blew it. The Repubs non-starters are just as dismal.
Sammy this where we are at, one word from the?big zero?and Reid would have to act
http://majorityleader.gov/JobsTracker/
News tonight. First evah downgrade for the Fed Gov! Thanks Tea Party!
Amen.
“The spending cuts in 2012 and the failure to continue two key supports to the economy (the payroll tax holiday and emergency unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed) could lead to roughly 1.8 million fewer jobs in 2012, relative to current budget policy.”
From The Economic Policy Imstitute.
http://www.epi.org/analysis_and_opinion/entry/whats_missing_from_the_debt_ceiling_debate_jobs/
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Isn’t the payroll tax holiday an unfunded tax cut that zero hates so much.
Tom, I seriously don’t know why we bother drawing stick-figure pictures to encourage understanding of our system of gov.? The left is full of anger, and I offer this:
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” — Buddha
Let ’em be angry—after all they voted for Obama, we did not.
Crystal the EPI is a socialist?left wing think tank that gets it funding from Soros and the unions. They were also involved with zero in implementing the excellent fiscal and jobs policy that now exists. Now they are all trying to cover their butts. The day of reckoning is at hand. Hows that Hope and Change working now.?
You mean you voted for McCain? And then to improve on that you voted for the Tea Party “freshmen”? Oops, CT did not get any Tea Party member elected in 2010. Now I understand why all faults are on the Democrats.
sammy22, speaking of CT:? you mean you voted for Blumenthal?? And then to improve on that you voted for Malloy?? No, CT didn’t get a Tea Party member elected in 2010.? It’s all democrat all the way, now– when the state implodes no one can say it’s M. Jodie Rell’s fault this time.? So proud of your party and who you voted for?? Own it.
Guess what winnie888. I did not vote for Blumenthal or Malloy. It did not make a difference anyway.