Obama notes private sector job growth, rips GOP

[ProSense]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- President Obama put a positive spin on the Labor Department's new jobs report Friday, noting the country has now had nine straight months of private sector job growth.

The economy lost 95,000 jobs in September, though the private sector added 64,000 jobs. The nation's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent.

Obama blamed the net job loss on layoffs at both the U.S. Census and state and local governments. He slammed the GOP for opposing additional state assistance.

"We have to keep doing everything we can to accelerate this economy," he said during a visit to a Maryland brick and masonry company. Too many Americans have been "swept up in the most devastating recession of our lifetimes."


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/08/obama.economy/?hpt=T2

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Republican obstruction taking a toll on public sector jobs at local level

[bluestateguy]

1. John Boehner says that government jobs don't count

OK fine. So since government jobs don't count, we had net job growth.

[old mark]

2. Mr. President, please keep hammering them on this and on every other GOP

evil. People MUST understand the real differences between our parties; even the watered down Democrats of today are totally different from the republicans and their clown allies on the extreme right.

People MUST be made to understand this.

mark

[hakko936]

3. The problem isn't.....

.....that the government jobs went away. The problem is that the government jobs (census) workers were added to the jobs total to begin with, which resulted in artificially inflated numbers for a couple of months. Adding known temporary jobs into the total and touting the "job growth" means that you have to acknowledge the "job loss" when those jobs go away. This administration gambled with the numbers in hopes the numbers would improve enough that the loss of these jobs would be hidden. They lost that gamble and the pubs are turning it into a political football. The bottom line is that this country is starving for jobs and the economy isn't turning fast enough. The situtation will likely get worse if the pubs gain seats this election.

[rbilancia]

8. It takes TIME to dig out of an 8-million-job loss. Ain't happening overnight,

[independent_voter]

4. why are we still glutting the job market with massive numbers of 'guest workers'?

cutting 'guest workers' would give immediate relief to the unemployment figures

[independent_voter]

5. ....

[Mikeystyle]

6. Republicans want a dead economy

Republicans opposed eliminating subsidies for big oil companies and tax breaks for companies shipping American jobs overseas. Their big “plan” for the future is nothing but Bush’s old failed policies of tax cuts for the rich and letting corporations do whatever they want—which is how we got into this mess in the first place.

Republicans introduce “Kill the economy” plan

Congressional Republicans unveiled a plan on Monday that they said would hurt the nation’s economy, benefit the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and add billions to the national debt.

The move is a continuation of Republican policies during the Bush administration and part of a plan they hope will lead to rising voter dissatisfaction and Republican gains at the ballot box.

(continued….)

http://www.thechicagodope.com/2010/08/16/republicans-introduce-%e2%80%9ckill-the-economy-plan%e2%80%9d/

[cilla4progress]

7. Welcome to 2 new DUers!

Great to get new blood! We must be doing something right if we are still attracting new members!

:woohoo: