This morning’s weak jobs numbers indicate that the plan Republicans implemented the day Obama took office is at least partially successful. That plan is to sabotage the US economy by saying NO to anything that might benefit the American People. In spite of their best efforts, we are gradually improving, but they have slowed down the pace of recovery from the Republican recession
U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is struggling three years after the recession ended.
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent.
The economy has added just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That's one-third of 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Job creation is also trailing last year's pace through the first six months of 2012…
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The private sector was slightly better, adding 176,000 jobs in June. The 96,000 job difference comes from public sector job losses, forced by Republican austerity at the federal level, and Republican governors laying off teachers, firefighters, police, etc. hand over fist.
Obama and the Democratic Party have proposed dozens of bills to stimulate the economy, such as tax penalties on companies who outsource jobs (or off-shore them in 1%-speak) and using the proceeds to give tax credits to companies who create jobs here. Implementation of these programs would have resulted in job growth, had Republicans not blocked them.
Let us not forget that the same policies proposed by Romney, Ryan and the Republican Party resulted in the red section at the left of the bikini graph.
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Bikini graph? TC are you stuck in 1946?
One bright spot is that the unemployment rate did not go up as the Republican/Teabaggers had hoped! The Republican/Teabaggers have done absolutely everything, short of literally tying Mr Obama's hands, tp tank the US economy so that the people will hate him and vote for the plutocratic numbskulls of the Republican/Teabagger party.
If ever there was cause to rely on the statement of the Declaration of Independence — "…deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it and to institute new Government,. …", NOW is the time!
Vote Democratic 2012!!!!! Vote Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!
(Sorry if I insulted anyone with "Vote Democrat". I didn't know it was a GOP slur!)
LOL!
True.
Amen!
I was sure you didn't realize that. 🙂
Seems an important point : Gained-? in contrast of the bleeding that went on under the GOP—
Yes Lynn- Vote Obama/Biden 2012 — AND Vote Democratic ! 2012– Give the President a team that will work with him!!
Right!
Right on!
"Let us not forget that the same policies proposed by Romney, Ryan and the Republican Party resulted in the red section at the left of the bikini graph."
I've lived through enough of Republican Spending via Wars of Choice…
Plus, Republicans ALWAYS run up the debt!
Given that republican policies got us into this mess in the first place, it seems only logical that we do just the opposite of republican policies. Am I missing something here?
Nothing at all!
We need more people to be paying attention to what our congress is doing. Some are happy to see government employees lose their jobs, that is, until they actually need them for something. Mitch McConnell publicly said he would spend the next four years to see that Obama did not get a second term. That seems to be all the Republicans have worked for, not matter what the consequences to our country.
Edie, I completely agree.