[theDentist]

She loves to play "Victim".

[jude24]

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

It was a silly promise anyway. There is little the Federal government can do to create anything but Federal gov't jobs. Certainly not when Albany is as dysfunctional as it is. It's not Sen. Clinton's fault, per se, that she couldn't create new jobs in the region. She never should have promised, however, what was beyond her power to deliver as a member of the minority party in the Federal government.

[Ladysmith]

whoa whoa WHOA, now wait a minute??! Is Hillary! saying there's not enough jobs for the citizens of New York?? But but but we're being told we need all these illegal aliens to take up the jobs Americans won't do!

[HEY4QDEMS]

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.

That should give the voters a hint to next time vote for somebody on the winning team.

[randita]

If 200,000 jobs had been created, do you think she would be out there giving credit to the Federal Government (even if there were a Dem Congress)? No way, she'd be tooting her own horn.

[newnhdad]

Typical lefty. Blame everyone else for your own failures. Who would so dumb to believe that anyone can attract 200,000 jobs to NY state where people are leaving in droves because the tax burden is so high?
Why would a business move to Western NY when there are more business friendly states only a few hours away.

[SAMS]

"You'll win some, you lose some"

I'd like to hear the ones, she's won!

[Dahoser]

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."

I didn't have? She must have Freud on psychic speed dial next to Eleanor Roosevelt with all these slips.

[Always Right]

So Hillary lied about a promise she had no way of keeping then blames Bush. Priceless. Of course, what was Bill's excuse for not delivering on a middle class tax cut he promised for 8-years.

[P-40]

"I didn't have the benefit of a Democratic Congress.

Actually, she didn't have the benefit of a clue.

[mass55th]

Geez Hillary. Why aren't you putting pressure on your Democrat counter-parts in the State Legislature to help you create jobs instead of blaming Republicans in Congress. And by the way, how about showing us some of the legislation you introduced that would help create those jobs. I think we'd all really like to see them. What? They're missing and you haven't seen them since your days at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas?

[bray]

Upstate NY has the Worst Economy since Herbert Hoover!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[PzLdr]

In a state where both Senators are Democrat, the bulk of the Congressional delegation is Democrat, the legislature is Democrat, the Attorney General and Comptroller are Democrats, and the Republicans are cross dressing Democrats, how is it the GOP's fault the state is a disaster?

And by the way, wasn't Hillary elected Senator because SHE was going to revitalize the northern part of the state's industry/ businesses/jobs?

[Prysson]

I thought the reason was that the is a senator and senators dont "create jobs" business's do...shows how much I know..

[marko525]

So I guess the conclusion that could be drawn from her comment is that the voters would have gotten those 200,000 jobs if they had only elected a Republican.

[Tenacious 1]

I believe the population of the state NY is in decline. I might have read it wrong. However, when a state that collects tax dollars the way NY does loses the payers to their stately neighbors, they have to raise taxes on those left to logically fill the gap. Same goes for when businesses leave the area. Is it any wonder that the economy in NY and MA is fledgeling amidst an otherwise national economic boom?

So Hillary, how is it that the rest of the country is doing so well because of "this administration's policies" but your state is in a QUAGMIRE? And just keep on staying in the "fight". That's right, keep fighting against your own citizens and businesses. The jobs are going to start flooding into NY any minute now. In fact, I will be willing to bet that those "immigrants" that you love (they can't vote) are finding plenty of work in Manhattan, Buffalo, Long Island, etc. They are the faces of the people that clean up behind us at hotels. They are the faces of the people that feed us. If you count their jobs in your state, then how are you doing?

Hillary, keep us posted.

[Redbob]

She might, with some justification, have pointed to the state's incompetent governor, and to NY's venal legislature.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The ones who voted for her must have been deaf, dumb and blind.
IT couldn't sell lifeboats on the Titanic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I work for a staffing agency which has clients in upstate New York. I have found it is extremely difficult, near impossible, to get qualified candidates from other parts of the country to move there.

Reasons given are always the same:

1) Weather is too harsh, too cold, too much snow.
Not appealing from anyone not already living in
New England or Great Lakes area who is used to it.

2) If I am going to live in a small city or sleepy rural
backwater, I want to enjoy the benefits of a lower
cost of living, which I will not in NY State, because
of the crushing tax burden that will be heaped on me
to support all of the Socialist benes for people
down in New York City.

Call candidates in South Carolina, Alabama or Texas about a job in upstate NY and they will just laugh in your face!
If your choice is between a job in Greenville or Utica, it becomes a no-brainer!

Eventually the employers get tired of having their key positions go unfilled, and they decide to leave the state.

[stylin19a]

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 ?