Republicans Against Job Creation

[babylonsister]

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-cohn/77762/republicans-against-job-creation


Republicans Against Job Creation
Jonathan Cohn


Republicans say this election should be about the economy. Fine, let's make it about the economy and why Republicans keep blocking efforts to bolster it.

Steve Benen explains:

It's never received a lot of attention, but the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Fund has been one of the most successful elements of the Recovery Act. The fund subsidizes jobs with private companies, nonprofits, and government agencies and has single handedly put more than 240,000 unemployed people back to work in 32 states and the District of Columbia.

Governors, including Mississippi's Haley Barbour (R), have sung its praises, and urged its extension. In July, CNN called the TANF Emergency Fund "a stimulus program even a Republican can love."

Except, CNN was wrong. The TANF Emergency Fund expires at the end of this month -- just two weeks from now -- and despite Democratic efforts to continue its success, Senate Republicans will block a vote and let the program die. ...

Extending the program would cost about $2.5 billion, a relatively paltry sum that has a considerable impact on helping struggling Americans get a job. But Senate Republicans don't seem to care -- not one has signed on to keep the program going another year, and proponents, including Bob Casey who's taken the lead on this, expect the worst.

For all of the GOP's obsession with tax cuts for the wealthy, not one has the sense or the courage to endorse an affordable program that creates thousands of jobs. And yet, voters are poised to reward them anyway.

[mikekohr]

1. Here's a graph on 70 years of job creation, -it's all Democrat all the time-

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Zvl-nui8I/AAAAAAAAACQ/3j0wUSj78mk/s640/Job+growth+graph.jpg?

Many Americans are aware that George W. Bush has had the worst job creation record since the government began tracking these figures in 1939. But Bush's colossal failure to manage the economy overshadows a much larger story.



The record shows two unmistakable patterns:
Every time a Republican succeeds a Democrat in the White House, the job creation rate plummets.
Every time a Democrat succeeds a Republican in the White House, the job growth rate soars. Every time! No exceptions!


Over the last seventy years, the decrease in monthly job creation when a Republican succeeds a Democrat is 68,913

Considering the steady growth in population of the United States during this time frame the job creation rate should steadily increase each month (currently it must grow by 138,000 per month to keep up with population growth). This trend only manifests itself when examining Democratic administrations:

Listed below is the average job growth increase for all terms served:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mHSyEv8vBt4/S6Z6xo0qSnI/AAAAAAAAACY/p8SkoEnN5dw/s640/job+creation+by+president.jpg?



By: mike kohr Graphics by: Bonny Kohr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/

[golfguru]

2. Where is president Clinton when we need him?

He broke all records in job creation.

[MadMaddie]

4. True but he didn't come into office with the entire economy

off the rails and two wars going on.

[suzie]

12. +1

[Arkana]

3. But I thought it was Dummycrats that wuz keepin jobs from being created.

FDL and FOX both told me so.

[Cha]

5. Somebody doesn't want it known that it's the

republicons who are against job creation.. I rec this and it went back to zero.

[mikekohr]

6. I wonder who's unrecing this?

Could it be Satan?

?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. The fine line

[mikekohr]

8. You Betcha! :D

Results Matter
Vote Democrat!

mike kohr
Bureau County Democrats
http://bureaucountydems.blogspot.com

[ClarkUSA]

9. Off to the Greatest with you. Thanks for the facts about our real enemy.

:kick:

[cilla4progress]

10. Excellent graphic!

Send to C-SPAN, CNN!

[Scurrilous]

11. K & R

:thumbsup: