{"id":9339,"date":"2012-11-03T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2012-11-03T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T16:18:42","slug":"more-jobs-jobs-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/03\/more-jobs-jobs-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"More Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In 2010, Republicans ran on a platform of Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!&#160; Then they did everything to stop Barack Obama from instituting measures to create jobs.&#160; In spite of that, the economy keeps growing, due to the&#160; few measures Democrats were able to pass, and those steps Obama could take via executive order.&#160; The Republican Party does not want you to understand that.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"3Bikin1\" alt=\"3Bikin1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/3Bikin1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last month, when the unemployment rate dropped by three-tenths of a percentage point to dip below 8 percent for the first time in 43 months, Mitt Romney dismissed the drop as meaningless. Some Republicans said federal officials manipulated the numbers to help President Obama win re-election. This month, when the jobless rate went up by a smaller amount, Mr. Romney took it as gospel, proof that Mr. Obama\u2019s policies are a failure. Last month, Mr. Romney focused on a reduction in the work force. This month, he would not admit that the work force had expanded. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The truth is that Mr. Obama was right when he talked about \u201creal progress\u201d in the economy<\/strong> during a campaign swing in Ohio, where the state unemployment rate has declined from 8.6 percent a year ago to 7 percent recently. Republican obstructionism has made it much harder to achieve the improvement we have seen, but it has failed in its seeming intent to ensure stagnation. <\/p>\n<p>That left Mr. Romney flailing around for a response. His proclamation that the economy was at a \u201cvirtual standstill\u201d is believable only if you adopt Mr. Romney\u2019s denial of stark reality. A candidate who could ignore Chrysler\u2019s announcement of 1,100 new jobs in Toledo and claim that Chrysler was moving jobs to China can just as easily see a flat line in an upward trend. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact, the jobs recovery has not been derailed; it is showing some signs of acceleration. With 171,000 jobs added last month and job tallies for the two prior months revised upward, employment growth since July has averaged 173,000 jobs a month, up sharply from the average monthly pace of 67,000 in the second quarter of 2012<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/03\/opinion\/jobs-are-growing-not-stagnating.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Almost all the job losses during the Obama Administration occurred in the first few months, before his policies could begin to be instituted.&#160; All those losses are directly attributable to the economic malfeasance of the Republican administration that caused them.&#160; Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs have been lost due to Republicans cutting services in states they control to provide tax cuts to millionaires.&#160; Under Obama\u2019s leadership all those jobs have been replaced and more. The economy of finally starting to recover from the Republican recession.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell discussed the jobs report with Ezra Klein and Eugene Robinson.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc5e3fbc\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=49669551^0^420888&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc5e3fbc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=49669551^0^420888&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Job creation needs to accelerate. We can choose Obama&#8217;s policies that, if put into practice, instead of falling to Republican sabotage, will spur job growth in the US, or we can choose Willard&#8217;s policies that will create more jobs in China.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"Vote_Check-mark\" alt=\"Vote_Check-mark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Vote_Check-mark3.gif\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, Republicans ran on a platform of Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!&#160; Then they did everything to stop Barack Obama from instituting measures to create jobs.&#160; In spite of that, the economy keeps growing, due to the&#160; few measures Democrats were able to pass, and those steps Obama could take via executive order.&#160; The Republican Party <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/03\/more-jobs-jobs-jobs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-9339","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\/9339","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=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}