Pelosi Says Jobs 'Permeated' Congressional Actions In Year Of 10% Unemployment

[dandi]

By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that the issue of job creation has “permeated” the efforts of congressional Democrats over the past year. Pelosi’s statement stands in stark contrast to a bleak jobs year that saw unemployment rise to over 10 percent.
 
“The jobs issue has permeated everything, [every] major initiative that we have,” Pelosi said at her weekly press briefing Thursday. The speaker outlined the various proposals that she said had pulled the economy “back from the brink” over the past year.
 
“With the recovery package, we not only created jobs – about 2 million saved or created with more being rolled out – but pulled us back from the brink of even deeper recession. In his [President Obama’s] budget, which we passed one hundred days after his swearing-in, he had a blueprint for how we go into the future, create jobs, stabilize the economy [and] do so as we reduce the deficit – [it’s] very central to everything we do – reduce the deficit.

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The results of Pelosi’s year-long “focus” on job creation does not seem to have born much fruit, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) – which compiles jobless claims and other employment data.
 
By the end of 2009, the national unemployment rate had risen to 10 percent, two percentage points higher than Democrats claimed it would go after passing $787 billion in stimulus spending – the goal of which, as Pelosi pointed out – was to create or save 2 million jobs.

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The brain damage it takes to make a claim like this is staggering. 

"Let them eat cake!"

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, jobs for Democrat Congressional staffers and consultants.

[NHSparky]

Oh, Christ on a cracker--Dear Bela, how many of those "saved or created" were in the PRIVATE sector?  So you're basically saying we only went from losing 7 million jobs to 5 million in a year?  And that's a GOOD thing?

Oh, the stoopid, it burns!

[thundley4]

Oh, Christ on a cracker--Dear Bela, how many of those "saved or created" were in the PRIVATE sector?  So you're basically saying we only went from losing 7 million jobs to 5 million in a year?  And that's a GOOD thing?

Oh, the stoopid, it burns!

There are more union workers employed in government jobs than in the private sector.  I think something like over 10% of all jobs are in some form of government or other.

[DumbAss Tanker]

There are more union workers employed in government jobs than in the private sector.  I think something like over 10% of all jobs are in some form of government or other.

Yes and no, the percentage of government workers represented by unions is probably higher, but with the Feds at least the union has to represent everyone in the whole collective bargaining unit (CBU), but the workers in it don't have to pay dues if they don't want to run for office in the union or vote in union elections.  In DOD it's more common than not for there to be only a dozen or two actual dues-paying members out of a thousand workers in the CBU.

[Oceander]

Hee, hee.  I love this Newspeak thing - I just take each clause, negate it, and I get the real fact of the matter coming right back out of their gobbledy-gook.