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Entries in jobs (3)

Wednesday
Jan182012

Are You Smelling What the Barack is Cooking?

We are 3 plus years into the 'Jobs' President and still NO JOBS!  If this Presidency states over and over that their focus is on jobs, does that make it true? No matter your political persuasion the stink of failure on the jobs front is way upwind of where you are.  Are you smelling what the Barack is cooking?

Let's look at the facts:

Does today's announcement that Obama is putting the Keystone pipeline on hold lend any credence to his critics that he is all talk and no bite at least when it comes to jobs? 

Building the pipeline would bring over 700,000 barrels of oil per day and directly create 20,000 truly shovel-ready jobs. The Canadian Energy Research Institute estimates that current pipeline operations and the addition of the Keystone XL pipeline would create 179,000 American jobs by 2035.

 

Obama's 'Pivot' To Jobs: The Deja Vu Reel (VIDEO)

 

Boehner: Pipeline rejection breaks Obama’s jobs promise

House Speaker John Boehner says President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to create jobs by rejecting a plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

Boehner says Republicans will keep fighting for the Keystone XL pipeline because the project is good for the U.S. economy because it would create thousands of jobs.

 

3 Years of Obama Job Promises

 

Unemployment Rate: October 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday
Jul102011

We Don't Need No Stinking Jobs

Actions speak louder than words and the inaction of the Obama administration is yelling 'We Don't Need No Stinking Jobs'.  In fact we still have money to spend because we can always raise more taxes. (I might be paraphrasing a little here)  Is this the new version of 'Let Them Eat Cake!'?

Once again 'The Employment Situation' monthly report for June was released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing the failure to create jobs theme has continued.

How much longer must we collectively keep being slapped in the face with obvious fallacies such as 'we must spend more to create jobs'?

I ask you this:  How many jobs have been created by raising taxes in our history?  What is more conducive to encourage a small business owner to create a new job?  Taxes, onerous regulations, mandates for health care insurance, cap-and-trade energy tax, etc.

Common sense tells us the answer to these questions but common sense and politics are often like oil and water.  When they are forcibly put together the results can be very nice but often they repel each other much like Obama and jobs.

Here is a nice video from Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers that asks 'Where Are the Jobs?'

 

Sunday
Jul032011

Does Perpetual Campaigning Create Jobs?

Since the beginning of the Obama Presidency there has been campaigning to convince us that his way was the better way to create jobs. (Despite over 200 years of American economic history to the contrary)
As they say the proof is in the pudding and unemployment hovers over 9% as I write this post.

Where are the jobs Mr. President?

Will President Obama's campaigning really convince people that they are better off now than they were 4 years ago? The MSM (mainstream magicians) has a much harder task this time. Following an unpopular two-term President is dramatically easier to convince the sheeple of the U.S., that a do-nothing unknown Senator should lead us. This time the task for the MSM is to convince the sheeple that despite accomplishing nothing except historic debt that we should entrust Obama one more time and that it's not his fault. He inherited this mess!

It won't be so easy since we know this time that the MSM has no scruples much less journalistic integrity. The facts will be out there, you just won't find them with the MSM.

The not so perfect Republicans have released the first punch to the gut.

Game On!