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Talk about the pot calling the kettle Black "GOP candidates slam Obama on jobs" The same Party that didn't wanna Bail-out America's Auto Industry. Where's the GOP's Jobs Bill ? there isn't one

JJKING720 2011/07/08 21:00:36

Today’s jobs report was followed by a steady stream of responses from Republican presidential candidates criticizing President Obama’s economic stewardship. In statements released by their campaigns, several candidates laid blame on specific members of the president’s administration.

“If David Plouffe were working for me, I would fire him and then he could experience firsthand the pain of unemployment,” Mitt Romney said in a statement, referring to comments from Plouffe, President Obama’s chief economic adviser, that “People won’t vote based on the unemployment rate, they’re going to vote based on: ‘How do I feel about my own situation?”

“His comments are an insult to the more than 20 million people who are out of work, underemployed or who have simply stopped looking for jobs,” Romney’s statement continued.

White House press secretary Jay Carney defended Plouffe's statement today, saying Plouffe meant that "most people do not sit around their kitchen table and analyze GDP and unemployment numbers. They talk about how they feel their own economic situation is."

Rep. Michele Bachmann went after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

“Amidst this economic freefall, it should not be lost that the architect of the President's failed economic policies, Timothy Geithner, will head for the door after he attempts to cement the President's legacy of massive spending and debt by raising the debt limit another $2.4 trillion dollars. We can only hope that the President will be right behind him after the next election,” she wrote.

Herman Cain said he agreed with the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors,Austan Goolsbee, who emphasized the need for private sector recovery, but criticized the Obama administration for not doing more to enact such policies.

“According to President Obama's own former economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, the private sector must lead this recovery. I agree with Mr. Goolsbee, but wonder why if the Obama Administration acknowledges this economic truth, they still fail to enact business-friendly policies that would get America's job creators hiring again.”

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter blamed both President Obama and Romney, his a fellow Republican presidential contender.

“Inflation is rising. Real wages are declining - everywhere except at the Obama White House. To Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney's big government and bailout banks, this is an economic statistic. To Main Street, this is real suffering.”

Jon Huntsman demurred from taking the president on directly - referring only to the failures of “this Administration.”

“The American people have been extraordinarily patient in waiting for the better and brighter times promised to them by this Administration. Their patience has rightly worn thin. We need free-market, pro-growth policies to spark a wave of job growth – the same policies we implemented in Utah to make it the fastest-growing state in the nation. America needs new leadership to turn our country around."

Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum also talked about what they would do differently as president.

“I will turn around the economy as president by setting bold growth goals and implementing specific proposals to achieve them,” Pawlenty said.

Santorum ticked off a few policies he proposed as part of his economic plan: “eliminate the corporate tax burden for U.S. manufacturers, streamline the patent and FDA approval process, and increase incentives for research and development would do.” He said he looked forward to having a debate with President Obama over jobs.

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  • Freedom4 2011/07/09 17:51:20
    Freedom4
    EVERY HORRIBLE DEMOCRATPOLICY ATTACKS BUSINESSES AND ENTITLEMENTS ARE BURRYING US WITH DEBT.

    The ddemocrats are destroying this country and sending jobs FLEEING. Of course we all should be blaming them.
  • JJKING720 Freedom4 2011/07/11 20:47:31
    JJKING720
    Fleeing like Cheney's Haliburton to Dibai with 7 Billion per year in over-priced shoddy services to our Military
  • JJKING720 2011/07/08 23:04:45
    JJKING720
    The GOP's Jobs Bill is give $ to the rich and hope they open more McDonalds because they don't have an agenda on America's joblessness. The only thing I've heard from them on Job creation is Drill for oil and natural gas in State Parks. Let's pollute our Parks are rivers with oil leaks and poison the water table in our State Parks. We all saw what Fracking does to the water table.. where people in rural areas get there drinking water ... tap water burns , livestock lose their fur. The GOP under Bush authorized Cheney's Haliburton the power to super cede the 1972 Clean Water Act as long as jobs were created. power super cede 1972 clean water act jobs created gasland power super cede 1972 clean water act jobs created gasland power super cede 1972 clean water act jobs created gasland
  • Ambassador II 2011/07/08 22:26:08
    Ambassador II
    +1
    Never lose sight of the fact that the right wing is a harbor for lunatics of many types, and they have become desperate since the election of 2008 revealed that more than 50% of voters knew
    who and what caused the collapse of the U.S. economy and much of the world's banking and
    financial systems. The voters haven't forgotten, and all the spin in the world isn't going to change
    the memory, or the enduring pain of unemployment, homelessness, ideological bigots, and the
    chains with which Wall Street binds "We the people". Unfortunately, most slaves are afraid to leave the plantation, so the wingnuts continue their assult on history and sanity.
  • big bobber 2011/07/08 22:25:55
    big bobber
    +1
    just how did he bail them out...he took it away from the investors that created them which were mostly retired people that live off the income from their stock in gm and chrslyer and gave it to the thugs that was one of the biggest contributor to their demise....and ford survived without him''' and gm and chrsyler are still in trouble and to add insult to injury they are spending millions through congress to bail out the unions bankrupt embezelled pension and retirement plans..this is the democratic way ...although i think it is more communistic ...take away from the haves and give it ot the dont want toos...i have never beleived in the union agenda equal pay for unequal work...and iwas once in the graphic arts union...and i still dont think its right for a union member to have to go to the union hall to get a job not the person that has invested his money and life and pays the salaries...unions dont think you have a right to work..its thier job to get you one and then take money for doing nothing so they can give it to crooked politicians.
  • FAWKES' NOOSE ~ ΔTX 2011/07/08 21:12:29
    FAWKES' NOOSE ~ ΔTX
    Didn't you hear? Romney is taking credit for the Auto Bailout now. He says it was his idea first.
  • Scott 2011/07/08 21:04:46 (edited)
    Scott
    +1
    What cracks me up, is that when the dems were in control of the congress, they were chanting "Where are the Jobs?" Now they're in control, so it's the administration's fault. Don't worry, they've got a great plan; steal from the poor and give to the rich. It will solve everything!
  • big bobber Scott 2011/07/08 22:28:34
    big bobber
    +1
    how can we steal from the poor ..i thought that theydidnt have anything ../just what are these bad evil rich people stealing...?????????and the poor dont want jobs they just want welfare so they can have more kids more drugs more cadillacs and more money for the casinos
  • Scott big bobber 2011/07/08 23:30:11
    Scott
    I'm not talking about the homeless (I'm sure they're not even people in your book), but the working poor and middle class. The rich aren't evil, they just take avail themselves of the advantages that the evil GOP hands them. I love your stereotyping of the poor as drug addled, gambling, welfare suckers that don't want to work. Assuming that you're rich (since you said "how can WE steal from the poor"), it's a sad commentary on how you, and your kind, view those less fortunate. I only pray that the current economic situation results in the loss or your job,and ensuing depletion of your wealth. Maybe then you'd realize that all those that are currently "beneath you, are not scum of the earth. Although your membership in their ranks would certainly bring them one step closer to being so.
  • big bobber Scott 2011/07/09 00:08:15
    big bobber
    +1
    ive always worked for an ass hole../i am self employed..im sterotyping the poor that are on welfare generation after generation and have met them and dont feel sorry for them ..you couldnt force most of them to actually get a job and work..and i feel for the less fortunate but the majority are welfare lifetimers //no matter what you give them they want more and then the dems can keep them on the plantation and treat them like mushrooms...keep them in the dark and feed them horse manure..then they can totally control them from conception to death...and maybe thats why the dems want government abortion...if they killl enough of them the welfare list will eventually get much smaller
  • danila777 big bobber 2011/07/09 06:04:56
    danila777
    Do not bother to make them understand, they never will. They never sacrificed or run a successful business, they do not know what it is to juggle things from month to month and not sleep at night for fear that you will not make payroll next Friday if you do not get another contract.
  • Scott danila777 2011/07/09 17:32:09
    Scott
    Piss off. I own a 5 million dollar small business with 13 employees. Don't spew when you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
  • danila777 Scott 2011/07/11 00:50:46
    danila777
    your business is not small, if you make 5 million, and language please.
  • Scott danila777 2011/07/11 02:34:53
    Scott
    What language? And I don't make 5 million, we have 5 million in revenue. That is a small business.
  • Scott big bobber 2011/07/09 17:28:20
    Scott
    Wow! What color is the sky in your world? You just put together one of the most convoluted lines of logic I've ever read. I don't think Glen Beck could even come up with that one. Congratulations!
  • big bobber Scott 2011/07/09 18:00:02
    big bobber
    thanks for the comment i appreciate you input...and my world has and always be red white and blue and has been for 77 years of my worthless life most of it as a democrat but when it went liberal i quit and went conservative and against any form of big government. me and you are the biggest creaters of our economy and i dont know what you thinking is of it but this admin and congress is business slaying and wants to take over everything including our small businesses which are th emajor contributor more than big corporations for our economy...
  • big bobber Scott 2011/07/09 17:56:03
    big bobber
    welcome to our kind....and it is stereotyping and i never look down on anyone just dont have respect for their life style and ive seen plenty around this country....and if your a business man with that many employees how do you like obama now...?the problem with him and our dem congress is they dont actuallyhelp anyone they just control what they want to get what they want...

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