{"id":8280,"date":"2012-07-06T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8280"},"modified":"2012-07-06T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T18:39:33","slug":"republican-obstruction-is-still-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/republican-obstruction-is-still-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Obstruction is Still Working"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6bikini\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <LA Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

The private sector was slightly better, adding 176,000 jobs in June<\/a>.  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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}