Jobs

[moreluck]

Unemployment Under President George W. Bush
The unemployment rate in 2000 was 4.0%
The unemployment rate in 2009 was 9.3%
The rate went from 4.0% to 7.7% under President Bush.



Unemployment Under President Obama
Current estimates are 9.6%
President Obama took office on January 20, 2009
In January 2009 the rate was 7.7%
It went from 7.7% to estimated 9.6% under President Obama.

 

[Babagounj]

[h=2]Obama Bitches And Moans About Congress Holding Up Three Of His Trade Deals That Would Create Jobs . . . One Problem, He Hasn’t Submitted Them To Congress…[/h]
“With 1.3 million jobs lost under the ‘stimulus’ binge and the unemployment rate over 9 percent, there’s no excuse for the White House to delay a moment longer,” said Don Seymour, communications director for House Speaker John Boehner, in a blog post Friday. “If President Obama wants Congress to ‘go ahead and get those trade deals done,’ he should submit them for ratification as soon as possible.”
Officials announced in June that, after months of negotiation between the administration and congressional Republicans, had agreed to the overall terms of the trade deals and an accompanying piece of legislation, known as the Trade Adjustment Assistance program — essentially clearing the way for the legislation to become law.
“As a result of extensive negotiations, we now have an agreement on the underlying terms for a meaningful renewal of a strengthened TAA,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Jun. 29. “Now it is time to move forward with the TAA and with the Korea, Colombia and Panama trade agreements, which will support tens of thousands of jobs.”

 

[Babagounj]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will join thousands of union members at Labor Day festivities in Detroit, the Free Press has learned.
Obama will deliver remarks at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Labor Council, according to a White House official with knowledge of the trip.
While no other details were immediately available, it is likely he would again use the opportunity to tout his administration’s role in the rescues in 2009 of General Motors and Chrysler.

Maybe they can ask him about the Canadian-built bus he was touring the country in last week.

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[moreluck]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will join thousands of union members at Labor Day festivities in Detroit, the Free Press has learned.
Obama will deliver remarks at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Labor Council, according to a White House official with knowledge of the trip.
While no other details were immediately available, it is likely he would again use the opportunity to tout his administration’s role in the rescues in 2009 of General Motors and Chrysler.

Maybe they can ask him about the Canadian-built bus he was touring the country in last week.

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I wonder in which abandoned factory will he hold this big event? I hear Detroit has several of those venues to offer to him.

 

[Lue C Fur]

The owners of the Chevy Impalas can drop their cars off with Barack to have them fixed since he will be blowin smoke about GM.

 

[moreluck]

 

[Babagounj]

In 2009, the U.S. Forest Service awarded $490,000 of stimulus money to Nevada’s Clark County Urban Forestry Revitalization Project, aimed at revitalizing urban neighborhoods in the county with trees, plants, and green-industry training.
According to Recovery.gov, the U.S. government’s official website related to Recovery Act spending, the project created 1.72 permanent jobs.
In addition, the Nevada state Division of Forestry reported the federal grant generated one full-time temporary job and 11 short-term project-oriented jobs.

 

[moreluck]

NY Times
The administration may also merge the Department of Commerce, the Office of the United States Trade Representative and some economic divisions at the State Department into a new agency, administration officials said. Possible names include the Department of Jobs or the Department of Competitiveness.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/us/politics/14econ.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

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It's a good start but this President is a man of decisive action, especially when important issues like his re-election are at stake, and wants lots of options at his disposal. I was able to sneak into his office disguised as a TV set (which I am) and take a peek at the ideas he and his current economic team (right now, just Tim Geithner and a janitor, but he is actively seeking replacements for the ones who left) are batting around:

1. Change name to Barack "Jobs" Obama.

2. Create a national jobs bank which is too big to fail.

3. Have "Think Jobs" stamped on all of his personal golf balls.

4. Give numerous speeches on prime-time TV on the importance of jobs.

5. Demand that a Jobs APP be installed on his iPhone immediately.

6. New personalized license plates reading "JOBS nnnn" for all White House staff cars.

7. Name his first re-election campaign tour "Jobs 2012!"

8. Require "jobs" be mentioned at least once during every staff meeting.

9. All party officials and members of Congress will wear black armbands bearing the word "JOBS" in public.

10. The 2012 campaign slogan will be "JOBS FOR A CHANGE!"

11. Find staff members who have had actual jobs and feature them prominently on public TV and federally-funded performance art exhibitions.

12. Number one on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list will be "JOBS" until further notice.

13. Have beer summits with owners of corporate jets who will apologize for their failure to create jobs.

14. Create new agency to assist employers with job creation. Among its duties will be to publish new federal regulations outlining how, when, where and why new jobs will be created. It will also design and print huge amounts of new forms that each employer will need to spend numerous hours filling out each week explaining exactly why his or her business did or did not hire any new employees. It will also hire an army of government workers to follow up with each employer on each form, essentially asking him or her the same question on the form and checking to see if the spoken answer is the same as the written one.

15. Denounce anyone who claims Obamacare suppresses job creation as "raaaaacist".

16. Have the SEIU organize self-employed workers who will then strike for higher wages and benefits.

17. Rename Democrat National Committee "Jobs R' Us".

18. Subliminal jobs campaign: Show president hanging out with Steve JOBS, announce to the press Obama is proud of the recent Air Force 1 wax JOB or that Michelle will soon be having a dye JOB, etc.

19. Have word "JOBS" shaved into head.

20. Pass the word to the media to begin referring to BO as "The JOBS President."

These are all brilliant ideas. I expect the unemployment statistics to react as soon as these are made public.

 

[Babagounj]

GE Eco-Imagination
By not paying federal taxes while cutting expenses by moving GE Healthcare to communist China, Government Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt proves that crony capitalism works — for those with the right connections:

Compliments of Cons.Underground.

 

[Babagounj]

(USA Today) — President Obama’s post-Labor Day policy speech on job creation will include “some reasonable ideas that can have a tangible impact,” his spokesman says.
Those ideas and others are being considered by the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, whose leaders — General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault — spoke by phone with the president Wednesday.
“There will be some ideas that the president will lay out in this speech . . . new ideas,” Earnest said. At the same time, he said, Obama is not “backing away” from proposals he has pushed in the past, such as a public-private infrastructure bank to jump-start highway projects, and free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.
The spokesman said Obama is constantly “dismayed” by Republicans’ charges that his economic proposals are intended for political consumption.
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[moreluck]

(USA Today) — President Obama’s post-Labor Day policy speech on job creation will include “some reasonable ideas that can have a tangible impact,” his spokesman says.
Those ideas and others are being considered by the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, whose leaders — General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault — spoke by phone with the president Wednesday.
“There will be some ideas that the president will lay out in this speech . . . new ideas,” Earnest said. At the same time, he said, Obama is not “backing away” from proposals he has pushed in the past, such as a public-private infrastructure bank to jump-start highway projects, and free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.
The spokesman said Obama is constantly “dismayed” by Republicans’ charges that his economic proposals are intended for political consumption.
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OMG !! He's backpedaling already. We're anxiously awaiting his "specific plan" and he's gonna give us some tired old talking points. He's going to be more than dismayed when he sees his nimbers sink to the low 30's!!

 

[moreluck]

Job wrecker in chief...........

http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/08/26/the_job_wrecker_in_chief/page/full/

 

[Babagounj]

here's an nice anti-jobs story that will not bring music to many ears.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html
[h=1]Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear[/h]
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. "The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier," he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.
In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in a case with the delightful name "United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms."
It isn't just Gibson that is sweating. Musicians who play vintage guitars and other instruments made of environmentally protected materials are worried the authorities may be coming for them next.
If you are the lucky owner of a 1920s Martin guitar, it may well be made, in part, of Brazilian rosewood. Cross an international border with an instrument made of that now-restricted wood, and you better have correct and complete documentation proving the age of the instrument. Otherwise, you could lose it to a zealous customs agent—not to mention face fines and prosecution.

The tangled intersection of international laws is enforced through a thicket of paperwork. Recent revisions to 1900's Lacey Act require that anyone crossing the U.S. border declare every bit of flora or fauna being brought into the country. One is under "strict liability" to fill out the paperwork—and without any mistakes.
It's not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What's the bridge made of? If it's ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and where that wood was harvested and when and where it was made into a bridge? Is the nut holding the strings at the guitar's headstock bone, or could it be ivory? "Even if you have no knowledge—despite Herculean efforts to obtain it—that some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever," Prof. Thomas has written. "Oh, and you'll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration."

Consider the recent experience of Pascal Vieillard, whose Atlanta-area company, A-440 Pianos, imported several antique Bösendorfers. Mr. Vieillard asked officials at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species how to fill out the correct paperwork—which simply encouraged them to alert U.S. Customs to give his shipment added scrutiny.
There was never any question that the instruments were old enough to have grandfathered ivory keys. But Mr. Vieillard didn't have his paperwork straight when two-dozen federal agents came calling.
Facing criminal charges that might have put him in prison for years, Mr. Vieillard pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of violating the Lacey Act, and was handed a $17,500 fine and three years probation.
You could mark that up to hypocrisy—artsy do-gooders only too eager to tell others what kind of light bulbs they have to buy won't make sacrifices when it comes to their own passions. Then again, maybe it isn't hypocrisy to recognize that art makes claims significant enough to compete with environmentalists' agendas.

 

[moreluck]

GOP pitches jobs plan.............

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-plan-obama-says-new-agenda-coming-next-week/

 

[moreluck]

 

[The Other Side]

Unemployment Under President George W. Bush
The unemployment rate in 2000 was 4.0%
The unemployment rate in 2009 was 9.3%
The rate went from 4.0% to 7.7% under President Bush.



Unemployment Under President Obama
Current estimates are 9.6%
President Obama took office on January 20, 2009
In January 2009 the rate was 7.7%
It went from 7.7% to estimated 9.6% under President Obama.

Your getting closer to reality moreluck, but lets examine your posts.

From 2000 to 2009 when Bush left office, his increase in unemployment was ........3.8% increase or a loss of over 10 million jobs in 8 years.

Obama starts at 7.8% in february 1 2009 and in one year, during the deepest recession in history, goes to 10.2%. After stimulus and bank savings, wall street savings and home savings programs, unemployment fell to 8.8 %. In Nov. 2010, the republicans take the house and push for extentions of the bush tax cuts for two years at a cost to the deficit of 900 billion dollars and WHAMMO!

Unemployment shoots back up to 9.2%. The current rate of unemployment under Obama is at 9.2%, (and if youre going to try and put all the people who stopped looking for jobs, then you have to do the same for BUSH and that takes him to 11% using the same calculations) SO DONT TRY IT.

Now, lets give you the 9.2% currently and substract where OBAMA started from .

9.2%
-7.8%
1.4% rate of increase in three years time.

So comparing BUSH's 8 years at a 3.8% increase in unemployment to OBAMA's 3 year record, its clear that OBAMA has not come close to the increase of GW BUSH. Now, lets divide BUSH's 3.8% by 3 !!

3.8% / 3 = 1.2666 every three years. So, consistent with BUSH's performance and starting in BUSH's recession, OBAMAs average is about equal to BUSH's record and NOT WORSE as your party, foxed spews and right wing radio would like to suggest.

The real difference is that BUSH increased the unemployment record in a GOOD ECONOMY starting in the black and a nation working and prospering, whereas OBAMA has had to start in BUSH's hole and dig his way out just to see daylight.

Give the guy some credit. BUSH dug a ginormous hole into the ground and buried the USA in it, OBAMA is starting to get us to ground level and YOU, your party, your supporters, your candidates and your ideology is making it harder by trying to make the hole deeper.

Thank you for the stats, as I said, your getting close to the truth everyday!

"He's black, get over it"

Peace.

 

[moreluck]

......................"He's black, get over it"..................(TOS)

Your usual tactic......pull the race card. It's all you know.

 

[Babagounj]

tos, your figuires do not include the people who have just given up any hope of ever finding a job thus the real rate hovers around 16%.
So 16 % -7.8% = 8.2% increase.
Technically speaking the rate has doubled in just 3 yrs.
That one you can not blame Bush for.

 

[moreluck]

Obama faces tight restraints.................

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/30/obama-faces-tight-restraints-in-crafting-jobs-plan/

 

[klein]

20.000 new jobs are comming your way soon, supplied by an Alberta Pipeline company..... that's not bad...... that would be for us , like 200.000 new jobs, population wise accounted.