He may have inherited a bad situation (so did Reagan). I think Obama’s “laser like focus” went dark…
(H/T: The Corner)
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Data Point – Job recovery rates by President
Ray Buckley- Another Tall Tale About Budgets, Education, and Bill O’Brien
Ray Buckley, Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party is quoted as having actually said this. (DiStaso – Granite Status)
“The people of New Hampshire are more concerned with Bill O’Brien’s behavior acting as the House speaker, his state budget that has New Hampshire in the red, and his policies that have caused a loss of jobs and the cost of education skyrocket.
There is not one thing in this statement that is true. Not one.
Irony – do you see it?
Aw, cry me a river of tears! I got this from a friend (wink, wink) from the National Director for Socialist Youths division of the Democrat Socialists of America. Does anyone else see the irony in the plea ( reformatted, emphasis mine) Invest Your Socialist Cash in the Future: Youth Scholarship Fund Running Low If … Read more
The Free State Project says “Thank you, President Obama!”
Why? Because his policies are driving small businesses to New Hampshire. Why? Because Democrat (and RINO Republican) policies harm business and job-creation. It’s a simple as that. As a result, entrepreneurs and business-owners are considering moving to our state because our policies are increasingly free market oriented (and thus actually work). See for yourself in … Read more
I Could Hardly Be Happier…
There were only two outcomes from the Supreme Court that would be useful on the Patiend Affordable Care Act. Complete repeal, or sustaining ObamaCare essentially unchanged. The Supreme Court chose the latter, more or less. And this is fine by me. America hates this bill. A majority of states hate it. Independents hate it. But … Read more
The View From Underwater…or…About Those Obama Job Creation Numbers…
The economy needs to create at least 150,000 new jobs every month just to keep the ship from sinking any further (and the ship is already in pretty deep). That 150,000 keeps us where we are, wherever that may be. With the lowest labor participation rate in decades here is not so great.
But Democrats would rather talk about the 27 month scenario in which Mr. Obama’s economy (that is not his economy) has created private sector jobs for 27 consecutive months. Under the best of circumstances his tenure has seen the creation of maybe 158,000 jobs every month–in 27 months. But he’s been President a lot longer than that.
If we start with the salvation-stimulus and its promises–like we’ll never see 8% unemployment which is true if by that you mean we haven’t been able to get down to 8% since the stimulus–and include all the months in the Obama Presidency he has only created 87,000 jobs per month. After stimulus, jobs bills, mortgage bills, car loan bills, TARP 2.359, Bride of stimulus, and every bill was a jobs bill bill, we added five trillion to the deficit, grew every department there was by 30-50%, and still can’t come up with an economy that doesn’t’ run 100,000 jobs short every month Obama is in office just to tread water. And maybe water will give you a better perspective of how bad this really is…
Piling on Jeanne Shaheen’s Greenie green suck
And as Steve points out here (and mine), being Green means having LOTS of green – and just watching it swirl down the toilet (data points via The Enterprise Blog):
- …candidate Obama promised to create 5 million green jobs, at the low, low cost of only $15 billion per year
- Obama spent $90 billion of his stimulus package on green energy projects, including weatherization of buildings and development of electric vehicles. Yet, by the end of last year, just 16,100 people landed new jobs in the so-called green industry, Labor Department statistics show, far short of the 200,000 jobs the White House projected it would help create each year.
- It is amazing to see just how badly the government can do at these things: 16,000 jobs out of 200,000 predicted is about 8%—a mere 92% underperformance rate.
Steve had this observation:
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen cut her teeth in her first Senate race by raging about taxpayer hand outs to big oil
So, what does this do to her campaign strategy – Did Obama just skewer a rerun of her campaign issue against big oil again (NY Times):
Smart Girl Politics Action: “They don’t speak for us”
Smart Girl Politics Action launches “They Don’t Speak for Us” asking women to put the conversation back on real issues important to women. Women are forced everyday to make sacrifices and its time that we put pressure on Congress and this Administration to stop playing games and get back to work for the American people. … Read more
If the economy is getting better…(Part 5)
…then why has the number of self-employed Americans fallen by more than 2 million?
It’s one thing to say you support small business, but Democrats attaching the word jobs, small-business, or main-street to every bill that comes out of congress doesn’t make it happen. But after 2008 every press release about every vote manged to shoe-horn in some BS about how that vote would help put Americans back to work. Really?
If the economy is getting better…(Part 2)
…then why is the average duration of unemployment in this country close to an all-time record high?
With six million less jobs, thanks to Obama’s so-called recovery policies, should we be surprised that the average duration of unemployment is at or near a record high? If you pollute the employment market, making it inhospitable to job creation–lets call it Obamagenic Employment Cooling–you have fertilized the field for long term despair.
(Full size Graph on the jump.)
If the Economy is Getting Better….
…then why are there 6 million less jobs in America today than there were before the recession started?
This is a serious problem. The people inside the blue bubbles and left wing ghettos can shout whatever number they want, but people are still out of work and underemployed. Their quality of life, and standard of living are in shambles. People who did not lose their jobs are trying to make stagnant or declining wages go further as inflation rises. Claiming the unemployment rate has dropped makes for a great sound bite, but it doesn’t pay the bills, and neither do government hand outs.
Quick thought on a line from Obama’s political hack, David Axelrod
On Meet The Press, David Axelrod had this to say about Romney and Bain Capital: His philosophy suggests that his emphasis is on creating profit for himself and his partners and his investors and not creating jobs. Er, that would be right. Socialists believe that the primary role of companies is to supply jobs. Progressives … Read more
Where Stands Jeanne Shaheen on the Keystone Pipeline?
There are at least ten Democrats, six of them US Senators, who support the Keystone XL pipeline (List on the jump). Private investment, jobs, commerce, property taxes, and did we say jobs?
How about millions of barrels per day of that black stuff we still have to buy coming from Canada, a chance to get less from countries like Venezuela?
US Refineries will convert that into fuels like Gasoline of which we are a net exporter. No interest in meeting global demand with US manufacturing?
What about Heating oil prices ? These are always a big concern in New Hampshire.
Where stands Jeanne Shaheen? I still don’t know.
GrokTV Event: NH Speaker Bill O’Brien Town Hall – NH Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien
Following Pam Tucker and DJ Bettencourt, Bill O’Brien spoke for about 30 minutes on the budget, jobs, creating a pro-business environment here in NH, reforming public pensions, the process of redistricting, and a new site, ConcordFactCheck.org:
Be Pro-Choice: Vote For The Right To Abort Unions.
If unions were abortions everyone would have the right to chose not to be party to it. Some liberal justice would have long ago ensconced that “right” into the US Constitution. And we would not be having this debate in New Hampshire. Workers could decide if they wanted to abort the union. But Democrats are hypocrites and choice shall not be permitted in the workplace. You will not, cannot be permitted to choose for yourself.
Do Nothing Democrats
It has been three years since the Democrat party produced a federal budget. The Democrat Senate has blocked repeated efforts by the Republican controlled House to ‘do something’ about that. President Obama, Senate leader Harry Reid, and the Democrat leaderships contribution (including their media homunculus) has been to demand compromise without giving any.
Democrat’s Say The Dumbest Things
The current Democrat class war is like punishing the advantage of literacy to pay for the economic misfortunes of people who refuse to learn how to read or simply do not read well. People whose only fault is having succeeded are somehow responsible for people who have not. And the Professional Left (and their amateur useful idiots) will go to any length to make the point, reinforcing the popular right wing adage, "Democrat’s do say the dumbest things."
Take Merrimack’s political village idiot, Fred Morse. In this mornings Sunday News Morse, who carries the lefts water in the print news at every available opportunity, made the following statement.
If there were any verifiable data that the richest were actually job creators in any substantial sense, that would be the lead story of FOX News every single night of the year. So when someone says that the idle rich are job creators, they are either misinformed or attempting to mislead the public.
I’m not sure if FOX actually uses the words ‘Rich people create jobs’ (I don’t typically watch any television news) but I’m reasonably sure they talk about business, finance, markets, capitalism, investments, and all their productive and beneficial side effects. These are the mechanism for creating wealth and for creating jobs. So not only are they (FOX) talking about it, the very existence of jobs proves the point; that investment of time and money by free people creates jobs and that by extension people who chose to create jobs by starting a business can become wealthy.
A Question for NH Democrats & Unions…
Is this the NH Democrat parties postion as well, and that of the state union, SEA, SEIU, Teamsters and others who are insisting that New Hampshire workers have no right to opt out of paying union dues just to get a job? Does the Federal government have the right to close a business or a facility in our state, and force those workers out of their employment, simply becasue they are either not unionized or have voted to de-certify the union, as is the case in South Carolina?
RINO OF THE WEEK REPORT
“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” ~Barry Goldwater This weeks RINO OF THE WEEK is 15-term Representative Phyllis M. Katsakiores, Rockingham District 5, Derry. I had to carefully mull over the choices because over the past months the blog … Read more
Obama Finally Builds Bi-Partisan Coalition!!!
I may be jumping the gun here, but I believe that Mr. Obama will achieve that which he has been calling for for years. Democrats and Republicans will come together today to form a bi-partisan coalition…