When the February Jobs Report came out, Conservatives claimed that the job growth reported was their accomplishment, although they just gained control of the House — the report was from January.
Americans everywhere have been scratching their heads asking, “Where’s our jobs?”– due to the House Speaker’s promise of job growth while campaigning for Republicans last year.
Promises are broken, not surprisingly, John Boehner, the House Promiser claims it’s President Obama’s fault that he can’t fulfill his promise.
John Boehner issued the following statement regarding the latest employment figures released by the U.S. Department of Labor:
“Any improvement in the jobs situation for our country is welcome news, but unemployment is still far above where the Obama Administration promised it would be when it forced our children to pay for the ‘stimulus’ fiasco, which accelerated a government spending binge that continues to block our nation’s path to prosperity.
Bush sent out $152 billion in stimulus checks then followed up at the end of the year with a bailout package costing $700 billion, end toxic debt and give leeway to the financial system. Some of this money went to bonus Wall St.
President Obama’s stimulus package went toward: tax relief, social security hikes, unemployment hikes, infrastructure, housing, Health Care, education, energy, automobiles, security and law enforcement.
Big difference.
In this video from November 3rd, 2010, Eric Cantor on Fox News, states that job growth must be priority one.
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What’s happened to creating jobs? Their priorities shifted as they’ve been otherwise engaged, even though Cantor states, they “picked up over 60 seats to obtain that goal.”
Union bashing, protests all across America, campaign lies on spending via a ‘Pledge to America’, jobs not created and lies about Death Panels that are obviously not here, are all disregarded by the same people that were voted into power.
Our economy has been adding private sector jobs for over five continuous months, going back to last October. Out of the jobs created, over 672,000 were created since then. Over 769,00 more were created between January of last year to July of 2010.
Instead of heralding the jobs report in the beginning of the year as a sign of our economy gaining, they claimed it was weak. Behind the flimsy campaign promise of job growth was a hidden agenda including, defunding Planned Parenthood, defunding NPR, giving tax cuts to the wealthiest. Tax cuts which are now afforded to the wealthy, could have aided in resolving part of our troublesome deficit.
Health Care Reform was watered down due to obstruction and the most blatant lies. Now they want the watered down, minuscule remainder of it eradicated – by any means necessary.
Campaigning will begin soon — when they can find a candidate. When they do, ask about the jobs, but don’t let them claim the accomplishments achieved by Democrats while they were in power.
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