Mitt Romney's trip last week to the Ohio drywall factory that closed during the Bush Administration speaks volumes about the GOP's disconnect from economic reality. Romney and the Tea Party (there's an odd couple) need you to believe that President Barack Obama is killing jobs by expanding the government.
Actually, President Obama is killing jobs... by shrinking government:
Compare President Obama's first term to President Bush's, and you see a phenomenon we've discussed previously: Contrary to crazy cries of creeping socialism, President Obama has overseen a steady decrease of folks working for the government, with the predictable exception of the Census hiring spike. The Obama decrease in public payrolls is so far almost 3%. At this point in President George W. Bush's first term, we had seen an increase in government of over 3%.
Meanwhile, in the private sector, President Obama has been gaining ground on private-sector job losses. As of February, the net private-sector job losses under President Obama stood at 274,000. At the same time in President Bush's first term, the private sector had lost ten times as many jobs, 2.7 million, since inauguration.
If President Obama had simply behaved like that socialist President Bush and raided the private sector to hire lots more government workers, President Obama could right now brag of a net increase in jobs under his administration. Let's see Mitt Romney drop by a closed Extension office and campaign on that issue.
Georgia Pacific is a manufacturer of drywall compounds and a serial polluter: it a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries.
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Yes Cory, Bush is a socialist and so is Romney and so is Obama. It is getting tiring to watch kettles calling pots black.
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Anyone who isn't a Socialist, Steve?
"Anyone who isn’t a Socialist, Steve?"
They are called conservatives.
Without going down a rabbit hole, Steve, you called our Governor Daugaard a socialist today.
You must have a really small club.
That's kind of what I was getting at, Jana. Please, name names, Steve.
Is is time for a constitutional convention? interested party
Nope, Larry: it's just time for us all to recognize that socialism is a tolerable and to some extent necessary element of any social order. Anarcho-capitalism doesn't work.
I'm not convinced that We, the People wouldn't inscribe socialism as the law of the land at a constitutional convention, Cory: ip.
"Anarcho-capitalism doesn’t work."
So who advocates that? Again, the simple minded dichotomy mindset that there can be only total government or no government.
Romney pandering sewing up male white geezer vote: Harvard poll.
"About 3.3 million more Americans are working today than were just two years ago." Motley Fool.