Cartoon Wisdom I
OK, to get me back into the swing of posting stuff here rather than driving my wife nuts with my verbal ranting, [Yes please! --TPK] I'm going to use some political cartoons as a jump-off spot. I'm calling these posts Cartoon Wisdom.
First up, something by Lisa Benson.
President Obama talks about having "saved or created" millions of jobs because of the multi-billion dollar stimulus. Back when the stimulus was being debated, the government put out some numbers of the jobs they expected to create. Now many months later, Republicans have checked out the reality of jobs in each market compared to what the Democrat stimulus promised would appear. Here is the table they published showing the prediction verses reality.
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Industry
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Administration Prediction of Job Creation by the End of 2010
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Actual Change in Jobs since Stimulus (February 2009 - June 2010)
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Construction
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678,000
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-853,000
|
|
Manufacturing
|
408,000
|
-707,000
|
|
Financial Activities
|
214,000
|
-310,000
|
|
Retail Trade
|
604,000
|
-286,800
|
|
Professional and Business Services
|
345,000
|
-211,000
|
|
Information
|
50,000
|
-158,000
|
|
Transportation and Warehousing
|
98,000
|
-155,600
|
|
Wholesale Trade
|
158,000
|
-135,400
|
|
Other Services
|
99,000
|
-72,000
|
|
Leisure and Hospitality
|
499,000
|
-69,000
|
|
Mining
|
26,000
|
-16,900
|
|
Utilities
|
11,000
|
-7,500
|
|
Government
|
244,000
|
+201,000
|
|
Education, Health and Social Services
|
240,000
|
+434,000
|
|
Total
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3,675,000
|
-2,347,200
|
Over two million jobs lost in this economy, and yet President Obama is all to happy to claim that millions of jobs have been created or saved. Yeah. Right.
In every sector of the economy, jobs have been lost. But one sector has seen lots of growth, and that has been President Obama's laser-like focus: government jobs. Interestingly enough, the list breaks it down into Government and "Education, Health and Social Services." But here's the dirty little secret: both sectors are government jobs.
But this isn't a surprise to me since I have written about it already:
If you are uncertain how the current administration will react to some situation, just identify the action most likely to increase the government's size and power, and you will know exactly how the government will act.
Date Posted: 7/26/2010 8:15:00 PM
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