Clinton: GOP has tried to keep jobless rate high

I wouldn't put it past R Big Oil and their puppet-creeps to do it on purpose

Their plan from the beginning was to make Obamam a one-term president. I wouldn't put it past them to make this so.

It would make a great campaign ad, with Clinton saying these same things followed by Yertle's infamous moment of honesty.

or at least what some of the Republican business people who I have talked to have said.

They claim that they will not hire more employees, even if they need them at the moment, as long as Obama is president. Their rationale for this is that they "don't know where things are headed", but they are definitely stating that it is the Obama presidency that is driving their decision.

However, let me say that I don't believe they will be able to keep this hiring freeze up much longer. Many of them are stretched as far as they can right now, and employees are rebelling against all the additional work. When Obama wins his second term, they will have to finally get their personnel needs filled.

This is the damn TRUTH!

if they vote 'wrong' and make businesses go downhill. Letters and e-mails start showing up at those employees' in boxes. Could this same system have been in play keeping big businesses from hiring people these past 4 years? That's what' I've suspected at least.

which has caused a loss of jobs in the public sector....

This recession has been deliberately prolonged in hopes of getting rid of Obama. HA! Their businesses suffered (didn't expand) and they're not going to get rid of Obama! Now let the hiring begin just as soon as they're convinced Romney is a loser.

The Republicans made this huge hullabaloo over the healthcare reform bill. It really did not change nearly as much as you would have thought from the noise.

That distracted Americans so that Republicans could take over the House and stop programs that would have pushed the economy forward. Then Republicans, through their control in the Chamber of Commerce and business TV stations, discouraged business from expanding or hiring. It's really quite simple.

Are Republicans that hateful? Are their motives that sinister? Are they that power-hungry? Yes. This is the chance of a century for them to destroy the unions and the rights of ordinary people. Of course they take it. They are Republicans. What do you expect?

I read somewhere, that without those lay-offs, the Unemployment rate would be in the low 7%s!

yes INDEED

Republicans have been blocking the Jobs Bill for starters

and it is true.

In a word: Obstruction

Yeah, they're holding onto it. I agree with the poster who said the game is 'we don't know what's going to happen'. This is what they say. I own a business, I talk to these people. They're holding out for a republican in control. 'It's my ball, play by my rules'. And what can we do, they have all the money?

If O wins they'll find some other way to be shitty.

It is an outright seditous attempt to manipulate the economic conditions to the advantage of the "other" side.
Traitors.

Business is sitting on trillions and not hiring, banks holding back on lending to slow economy, they only have a few more weeks to hold back. This has to be said in next debate, the repugs have to be exposed for the obstruction of jobs and economy. People losing jobs, homes, health insurance with jobs. There are job s bill and farm bill waiting in house to pass but didn't because they knew it would create two million jobs and assure Obama's reelection. Many republicans are in unemployment lines who should be thankful to the Gop
for their predicament.

Thanks for the thread, meow.

someone with a national platform said this.

1/ Opposed stimulus that massively boosted employment, through grants, state bailouts and tax cuts
2/ Opposed Jobs Bill that offsets payroll tax for businesses that hire workers that were on benefits
3/ Opposed extension of private healthcare jobs by trying to block Affordable Healthcare Act
4/ Opposed successful bailout of auto-industry that saved an estimated one million jobs
5/ Opposed every step taken to try to give relief to the housing market and reduce foreclosures
6/ Opposed the Small Business Jobs Act that would give local banks access to loan billions of dollars
7/ Opposed bill to remove tax breaks from companies that outsource jobs abroad
8/ Created debt-ceiling crisis that created loss of consumer and business confidence
9/ Put pressure on Bureau of Labor Statistics by claiming unemployment rate is fiddled
10 Stepped up rhetoric about war in Iran that led to further increases in crude oil and gas prices


Obama has worked his butt off trying to get us out of a hole.

What have Republicans done?

They have done all they can to see him fail, even if it means everyone else suffers as a result.

So many issues Obama tried to address and get to pass and Republican Congress blocks everything. Then the crooked and dishonest Republicans blame Obama for everything that has been their own doing.

Do they actually believe no one is going to notice this?

I absolutely cannot stand Republicans and their crooked and corrupt tactics.