Here’s Some Job Creation For You

Posted on 10/22/2010 at 8:28 am by Bob Cesca

The September jobs numbers are in and…

This is the 9th straight month of private sector job growth in the midst of a devastating recession that has put a serious strain mostly on the poor and middle class. There has been a total of 863,000 private sector jobs created in 2010, exceeding the total created under the Bush/Cheney regime.

Yet everyone wants to run out and vote for more Bush Republicans. Inexplicably. Because of jobs.

I know my roll as a blogger is to explain things, but I’m simply at a loss, other than to say: Americans are nuts.

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  • indyinwc

    And, as things continue to improve, the newly repub controlled congress will get all the credit. See? look what we did in just 90 days!

  • J M Ashby

    Nuts? Or just stupid?I’ll go with stupid.

  • ec

    We are down to 8.4%unemployment in Massachusetts. Take that, Charlie Baker!

  • Alan Fors

    Yes ec. Remember a month or so ago? Baker’s ads were saying he’d cut taxes and eliminate 5,000 government positions to stimulate job growth. I don’t think he thought about that statement too well. It’s not running any more though.

  • NickMpls

    Psst… Bob… you have a “role” as a blogger, but you are indeed always on a “roll.”;)

  • Luke B

    “I know my roll as a blogger is to explain things, but I’m simply at a loss, other than to say: Americans are nuts.”Well keep explaining things Bob. Your blog is invaluable to me and small group of family members spread out across Mississippi and Arkansas. So as we repeat stats and insight we read on your blog, we are propagating a small progressive voice in an otherwise Red corner of the country. I don’t know how many people read your blog, but I’m sure for each person who reads it, several others are affected.But you are right. Americans are nuts. Completely nuts. Being that Halloween is around the corner, it is definitely fitting to compare the hoards who are going to inexplicably vote republican as a mass of mindless zombies. Voottee Repubblllicccannn…. Vooootteeee Reppppuubbblliiccannnn …Brrrraaaainnnsssssss musssttt eaaaatttt brainnnssss… then voottteeee rrrreeeppuuubbbblliccaannnn

  • NedP

    I think anyone paying attention to what economists are saying about future predicted anemic growth understands that, 1, Obama and the Democrats running congress have run the gammut and have conceded there really isn’t anything left they can do to improve things, and that, 2, given 1, time is the only real cure-all for this recession.

  • http://radicalsahm.blogspot.com/ Radical SAHM

    @ Luke B:My kids are being zombies for Halloween this year and it is taking me all the strength I have to keep Republican and tea party swag off their costumes.I can’t get my head around the republican party still existing after the shit storm they presided over, never mind being popular. It confounds me. This many people can’t be racist so it must be outright stupidity married to ignorance with a side of ethnocentrism.

  • terry

    it really is amazing the diconnect between reality and fantasy. let’s be honest. If not for the incessant right wing echo chamber feuled by rich corporate executives, the right, and even tea-baggers, should actually be pretty happy with Obama’s presidentcy so far.take away the irrational fear of change and the “other”, and we are left with a moderate, fair-minded president trying his ass of to lead ALL of america. we live in a world of niche markets, but Obama is old-fashioned in that way, god bless him.

  • Thos

    I always used to laugh at those Baker ads because the logic is “I’m going to lower the unemployment rate by adding more unemployed!!!”

  • ec

    Thos and Alan Fors, I cannot wait to vote.Now they are going after Barnie Frank. Ridiculous.

  • Thos

    I can’t wait either. I am a little concerned about question 3 and cutting the tax rate in half. I’m worried that too many people won’t think that through. Deval like most dems needs better messaging and to stand by his accomplishments. I think had the casino stuff gone through it would give the visible “see jobs are being added”.

  • Alan Fors

    Both question 1 and 3 worry me for the same reasons you express Thos. I am glad that casino gambling hasn’t made it yet – it’s a bad idea. Look how the Conneticut casinos are doing right now. I don’t think there are enough gamblers in the region to support casinos in every state, much less two or three just in MA. After the initial job growth spurt from building and staffing, it will level out and become virtually nuetral as far as additional state revenues.

  • GMan

    ecBarney Franks almost single handed cased the mortgage crisis he should be under investigation at the leastText: Governor Rick Perry“Since I took office, Texas has added more than 850,000 new jobs.”Does he know about for number posted above?Ummm…Liberal, conservative, how doe the citizens of MA like paying 70% in taxes (all totaled0 ?

  • ec

    GMan,your math skills (all totaled) are as good as your typing skills. None of us pay 70% in taxes.I will think of you when I vote for Barney in a week and a half.

  • NedP

    @ecWhat is it about Barney Frank and his influence in promoting Fannie and Freddie and sub-prime mortgages, and his public scoffing at the Bush administration’s attempts (2004, I believe) to call attention to Fan and Fred’s impending spiral that some people just seem unwilling to acknowledge? He was at the forefront of the push to put people who couldn’t afford to buy homes into homes anyway, manipulating bank practices through strong-arming. This is all public knowledge, yet Barney is still at the helm.Why?

  • Alan Fors

    You don’t have any facts to back you up on that NedP. None. Zero.Cite a reference here to one report about the Bush admin warning of an impending spiral caused by sub-prime mortgages, and how Congressman Frank caused it. Just one. You can’t, because it’s a manufactured myth.

  • NedP

    You’re right, maybe it was 2003.Most die-hard lefties won’t accept these two vids, the second from a Foxnews “timeline” report about who was and wasn’t concerned about the GSEs and when.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM&feature=relatedThe fact is, Republicans raised the red flag, and Greenspan, too. I’m not saying Barney Frank was soley responsible. But he had as loud and as “senior” a voice as any among those who dismissed Bush Administration and Republican concern about the two companies.

  • NedP

    Here, I’ll finish up with these two. This is great for all the Barney Frank lovers.Enjoy. I’m done providing evidence of Frank’s involvement and the duplicity of the Democratic Party over this issue. Deny it all you want.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxMInSfanqg&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW5qKYfqALE&NR=1

  • Alan Fors

    @NedP: all of those videos are hacked up clips of FOX reports. No context is given, all facts are obscured. Several R congress-critters are shown saying “more regulation”, with no details on what regulations they are asking for.I don’t consider FOX news clips a credible source at all. Feel free to vote against Mr. Frank, but I suspect the majority of those in his district will re-elect him.I’ll cheer that, and enjoy my thoughts of you choking on the fact.