Posted on 01/22/2015 6:31:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called the states the “laboratories of democracy.” President Barack Obama ought to be glad that a handful of states are governed by Republicans doing lab work very different from his own. The economic gains registered in some of those states have played a significant part in pulling America out of its economic doldrums, allowing Obama, after six years in office, to give a State of the Union speech in which he could assert with some validity that the state of the union is “strong.”
In his address on Tuesday night, the president “took credit,” as the Washington Post observed, for America’s recent robust economic gains. Obama framed the country’s growth—which he characterized as outpacing other leading economies in Europe and Asia—largely around two areas, our “bustling industry, and booming energy production.” He didn’t explain why American companies are suddenly hiring workers and making products here again, or why energy production has ramped up—perhaps because the revival of these sectors represents an inconvenient truth for the president.
Take manufacturing. The president noted that, since 2010, the sector has added 800,000 jobs (though official Bureau of Labor figures put the increase at 614,000 jobs). That represents a gain of somewhere between 5.3 percent and 6.9 percent, depending on which numbers you accept. Yet in truth, manufacturing job growth has been highly concentrated in a few states; many others have seen little or no gains, and a few continue to lose industrial jobs.
The biggest winners have been states that emphasize a pro-growth agenda, not a redistributionist one like the president preaches. Texas, with 71,000 new jobs, has led the way in creating the largest number of new industrial positions. Michigan, with a 19 percent increase in industrial jobs, and Indiana, with a 14 percent gain,
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656 days to go! Will America survive?
Will America survive?
Yes at least the red states will. I can’t vouch for the blue ones.
I don’t care about ‘the others’ any more. Seriously, I do not. I used to care a little - but 0bama has made me even more of a ‘bitter clinger’ than I was before. Me and MINE first.
Mission Accomplished! ;)
I think he has made all of us more “bitter clingers.” So unfortunate for America. But like he said he won twice. I doubt if that “stupid” mentality has changed on the left.
Exactly! Putz.
Ninety three million people out of work debt at 18 trillion and Obama takes credit for growth media gives slobbering kiss.
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