Hillary Clinton: NY Jobs Failure GOP's Fault

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/11/06 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[GeorgiaDawg32]

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is telling upstate New Yorkers that the reason she hasn't delivered on her 2000 campaign promise to create 200,000 new jobs for the region is because Republicans control the federal government.

Asked about her jobs failure, Mrs. Clinton told the Syracuse Post-Standard: "I didn't have the benefit of a Democratic Congress. But I think given the fact that that wasn't the environment that I'd hoped for, we've seen some progress."

[mikey565]

Very well put. My family still lives in Oneida County, they have a sales tax rate of 9.5%. It's outrageous, the county said they had to increase it to that much because of Medicaid spending. Well, to find out the County Exec. overestimated it by around 10 million dollars.

They have plans to decrease it in increments starting in December. Now this County Exec., a Republican, has plans to go to Albany as a State Senator to reduce taxes. What a joke.

[CPOSharky]

In fact, New York State has actually lost 112,000 jobs since sending Mrs. Clinton to Washington, according to the Public Policy Institute in Albany.

Wonder how she gets around this ?

It's suprising she didn't claim to have created 312,000 jobs.

[Logical me]

Has these NY RATS forgotten. Hillery promised. The buck stops here. Isn't that what the RATS continually harp on?

Moved from NY many years ago, but conversations with a few relatives back there, they still like the smell of Hillery. Why, I will never know. Guess NY has the same nutty pool of voters that California has. Darn fools.

[jude24]

My family still lives in Oneida County, they have a sales tax rate of 9.5%. It's outrageous, the county said they had to increase it to that much because of Medicaid spending.

Same experience here in Erie County. The Republican County Executive ran on the platform of cutting property taxes, and promptly did so. He then proceeded to spend down all of Erie County's reserves, until he was faced with a property tax hike (which he adamantly refused to do) or raising the sales tax to 9.25%. It took the Legislature almost a year to do the sales tax hike. While Erie County was "poor," Mr. Giambra saw fit to steer contracts (for example, a furniture buying spree from a childhood friend) and patronage positions to his political supporters and his family. The prototypical example is Mr. Giambra's $80k/yr. personal driver, who just happened to be another childhood friend.

[Tenacious 1]

[It's suprising she didn't claim to have created 312,000 jobs.]

She is not done yet. Later today, she will announce that indeed she has created those jobs in her state. But because of "This administration" the government doesn't recognize the hard working immigrants that those jobs went to. We don't even have the decency to recognize them as citizens so they work in the dark and are forced to take low paying jobs that are not reported because of silly immigration laws.

[jude24]

Now this County Exec., a Republican, has plans to go to Albany as a State Senator to reduce taxes. What a joke.

Even funnier - even though the name "Giambra" is radioactive around Buffalo, he still is considering running for Congress. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, I guess.

[garyhope]

Good point. You're right. I have friends that live in upstate, small town NY ( I lived there myself for a while) and there are lots of little fifedoms and tax districts, etc.

[The Mayor]

Giambra's brain, a river runs through it...

[wai-ming]

Hillary has no leadership skills. She cannot govern. What has she accomplished as a Senator? A real leader would not make excuses; a true leader would get things done.

I cannot fathom why people want her to be president. She has done nothing in the U.S. senate but b*tch and complain. That is not leadership.

[Axelsrd]

And by the way, how about showing us some of the legislation you introduced that would help create those jobs.

You are absolutely right. Had she introduced legislation to remove the restrictions the Dems have put on business, that would go a long way in allowing businesses to grow and hire employees.

[jude24]

You're right. I have friends that live in upstate, small town NY ( I lived there myself for a while) and there are lots of little fifedoms and tax districts, etc.

No inch of ground is unincorporated. Comes from NY having been an English colony.

Ideally, we'd have no more than four levels of government: Federal, State, County, and if needed, Town or City. It's ridiculous to have a village contained within a town, for instance.

[memorandum1]

"2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is telling upstate New Yorkers that the reason she hasn't delivered on her 2000 campaign promise to create 200,000 new jobs for the region is because Republicans control the federal government."

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!