I just watched an Obama ad criticizing Romney’s jobs record in Massachusetts, claiming that the number of jobs created was very small.
The graph below shows Massachusetts unemployment while Romney was governor (blue) and US unemployment while Obama was president (red) at the same scale. Unemployment in Massachusetts dropped under Romney to the second lowest level in the last twenty years, while US unemployment under Obama rose to the highest level in 20 years.
Obama’s ad also criticized Romney for increasing Massachusetts debt by $3 billion while he was governor. By contrast, Obama has increased the US debt by $3 billion – every 12 hours since he took office. Obama has increased the debt by 200,000% more than Romney.
We have a crook in the White House who makes Nixon look like a saint.
Mass. “created” few jobs because it had very few people out of work. Funny how that works.
In either case, government doesn’t create ANYTHING other than debt! Government cannot create a job!
Question: How much energy has the Department of Energy CREATED ?
Question: How many jobs had the Department of Labor CREATED ?
And Steve, “Fraudster” is putting this in “mind numbingly” mild terms. I would have opted for a whole to stronger language than that. The comparison to Nixon doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of this guy. I would suggest a little research into the REAL background of Barry Soetoro, it will knock your fricken socks off and leave YOU with a numb mind, wondering how the hell this country could have possibly elected such an individual to one of the most powerful positions on this planet. Incredible….
SImple, an overdose of white guilt causes auto-titillation
This Jackass is the devil in disguise
Thin disguise
New low on campaign financing
http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/the-obama-event-registry
If Barack is given the people’s approval this November, we are heading as nation toward being not Greece, but worse, California. Here’s my wuwt comment:
@Chuck Nolan. Where did the California get a half-a-million dollars?
CA says: when in doubt, spend, and spend some more. There’s no end to CA lunacy, as sales taxes are already through the roof, and now they’re asking to raise it higher still, and, just to reinforce their reputation as the most anti-business / anti-success state, slap the “rich” job-creators with additional punitive taxes. Probably 75% of CA’s spending could be just slashed right off the barrel, as the public unions are taking dollars by the truckload, and the mess of inane govt agencies just spends $ like it’s water. Here’s a list of CA agencies, it’s insane (remember, we also have federal agencies, and local govt, this is just CA state): http://www.centerforsmallgovernment.com/small-government-news/california-state-government-agencies/
There’s an initiative to raise taxes further that is being put to a public vote. It’s time the public stands up and says “enough is enough,” they can’t threaten funding for public schools if they don’t get more taxes; instead, just go to the link that I provided, and cut out half those agencies, or the bloated unaccountable funding for them, and cut the public unions.
Oh, yes, I forgot, also, end that $67 billion dollar waste on a high speed train to Fresno from Bakersfield. Even if it eventually made it to SF from somewhere populated down south, this is a car state, you can drive from LA to SF in 6 hours, or fly. And insane rush to spend billions when Jerry Brown says this is the Mother of all Fiscal Emergencies. Then stop the train! Stop the public union spending. Stop the craziness of an alphabet soup of a morass of pointless govt agencies. And stop the kamikaze cap & trade. C & trade is not going to net any money; instead, It’s going to cause massive private sector dislocation, and businesses will flee even faster, causing revenue loss. I have to raise my hand and say that CA has reached the pinnacle of govt spending insanity, and the people must vote against even more taxes, or we will then just continue to finance this unrestrained spending binge.
In the Labor Department, they are extremely proficient at creating jobs. Busywork jobs. If you ever look at their directory, they have more assistants to assistants than you could ever imagine. I wonder what it must be like to be an assistant to an assistant to some lazy political hack that sits around and picks their nose all day at taxpayer expense.
Obama promised to hold people accountable for Operation Fast and Furious.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-on-fast-and-furious-people-who-have-screwed-up-will-be-held-accountable/
Instead we get stonewalling and the President invokes Executive Privilege.
They didn’t even offer up a scapegoat to throw under the bus.
In fact, the leftstream media and Obama surrogates are claiming credit for stopping the operation Bush started. Actually, Operation Wide Receiver ended in 2007, and the Obama White House resumed Operation Gunrunner in the form of Operation F&F using $10 million in stimulus funds http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/284798-4. Note remarks by Sec. of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden.
Also note Wide Receiver was a joint operation with Mexican authorities and the weapons were attempted to be tracked with GPS devices. F&F involved no permission from Mexico (i.e. weapons smuggled across an international border), no tracking, just tracing if guns happened to be found at crime (i.e. murder) scenes.
Then Operation F&F ended in December 2009 / January 2010. In May 2011, Holder testified that he knew about it several weeks earlier, then later had to revise his remarks and said 2 months, which would be March 2011. He couldn’t have ended it if he didn’t know about it.
Somebody is lying here. What are they covering up? Was this a plan to get tighter gun control laws in the U.S.? Latino voters might not appreciate it if it were revealed that hundreds of Mexicans were murdered by these weapons in an Obama plot to get tighter gun control laws.
And I bet it would bear out Latinos like guns, or I should say, gun rights, and cling to their bibles. But unfortunately it’s to be expected that by and large they are infatuated with Obama, who would like to see true open borders, I mean borders without guards, I mean making Mexican states the 51st through 82nd U.S. states, so true communism and redistributive justice can begin.
Don’t account for the real reason that unemployment went down in MA:
But Andrew Sum, a professor of economics at Northeastern University, says the unemployment rate fell only because people were leaving the workforce in droves during Romney’s term. Just one state had a bigger drop in its labor force during the same period, according to Sum — that was Louisiana, which was hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
“There was not one measure where the state did well under his term in office. We were below average and often near the bottom,” said Sum, who is also the director of Northeastern’s Center for Labor Market Studies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-massachusetts-governor-romneys-record-on-jobs-was-unremarkable/2012/02/06/gIQABzEfxQ_story.html
Wow, that makes the Obama disaster even worse. He doubled unemployment in Massachusetts while the workforce was declining.
Unemployment went down under Romney.