Posted on 06/07/2012 7:05:02 PM PDT by neverdem
Last night in Racine, Wisconsin, while demanding jobs for the unemployed, Jesse Jackson decided to slam job creating gun dealers and called for a march on gun shops all over the country. h/t Katy Abram
"Guns out, jobs in."
Jackson wants to get rid of the very thing that has kept the economy afloat during Obama's presidency. The firearms industry has not only created jobs in the past three years but has also provided the government with a steady revenue stream.
NSSF today released a newly commissioned report detailing double-digit gains in jobs and other data showing the industry has been a leader in the nation’s economic recovery. The report can be viewed at http://nssf.org/impact.
Firearms industry members on Capitol Hill were briefed on such remarkable statistics as the 30.6 percent increase in jobs between 2008 and 2011, a 66.5 percent increase in economic impact and a 66.5 percent increase in federal taxes paid by industry companies.
Armed with the good news of the report and recognizing that jobs and the economy are of major importance in the November elections, industry executives are meeting today with elected officials during the NSSF-sponsored Congressional Fly-In.
“During difficult economic times and high unemployment rates nationally, our industry actually grew and created more than ten thousand new, well-paying jobs,” said NSSF President Steve Sanetti. “Our industry is proud to be one of the bright spots in this economy.”
Companies in the United States that manufacture, distribute and sell firearms, ammunition and hunting equipment employ as many as 98,752 people in the country and generate an additional 110,998 jobs in supplier and ancillary industries. These include jobs in companies supplying goods and services to manufacturers, distributors and retailers, as well as those that depend on sales to workers in the firearms and ammunition industry. [1]
These are good jobs, paying an average of $46,858 in wages and benefits. And today, every job is important. In fact, in the United States the unemployment rate has reached 8.2 percent. This means that there are already 13,430,000 people trying to find jobs in the state and collecting unemployment benefits. [2]
Not only does the manufacture and sale of firearms and hunting supplies create good jobs in the United States but the industry also contributes to the economy as a whole. In fact, in 2012 the firearms and ammunition industry was responsible for as much as $31.84 billion in total economic activity in the country.
The Country Also Benefits from the Taxes Paid by the Industry
Not only does the firearms and ammunition industry create jobs, it also generates sizable tax revenues. In the United States the industry and its employees pay over $2.07 billion in taxes including property, income, and sales based levies. [3]
Hey Jackson, don't bite the hand that feeds you.
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The Hi-Power shooters, the Service shooters, small bore, all the pistol champions, will be more than willing to give him an object lesson on the complete lack of racial bias shown by a bullet...
If J.Jackson was a Republican he would long ago been locked up for life for inciting riots and violence.
But he is black and a Democrap so legally immune from prosecution. Particularly from the Corruption In Chief’s black administration.
Hey, ahole, how about going house to house in the southside and westside neighborhoods of Chicago, and demanding that the thugs give you THEIR guns? Huh, Jesse? Naw, no can do cause Jesse only wants his mug in the news...doen’t want it shot off.
Ahole.
they don’t call him jackass for nothin.
Why doesn’t Jesse “march on criminals’? That would be different...
Transparency isnt it grand. The army of decievers out for the fraud and chief...heart warming
GO JESSE GO!
( Yup, Jesse, just keep chasing your own leftist tails , shaking like dogs $hittin’ razor blades!)
(I love to see leftists go hysterical, it ususally precurses the next group of lefty exploding heads!)
“Problem is that a lot of perfectly fine young black men grow up listening to the racist tripe and class-war drivel that people like Jackson, Farrakan, and Sharpton vomit up.
These so-called leaders do more to hurt young men than any normal growing-up challenges. And the pi$$er is that these clowns get rich and enjoy a cushy lifestyle and I’m sure, laugh at the pliability of the dupes they get support money from.”
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Bingo! Well said.
I’ve actually got a mole in the Jackson camp. I’ll see if they can find out :)
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