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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Jesse's reloading and going for a gunshop owner who'll get an all-black jury pool that'll "teach Whitey a lesson".
They wanna hang a white guy -- they don't care which one.
4) don’t tug on Superman’s cape
5) don’t spit into the wind
6) don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
7) Lord loves a working man
8) don’t trust whitey
9) see a doctor and get rid of it
“You ever think about this guy being the leader of an entire race of people. Pretty scary stuff.”
He is the leader of a dwindling number of “his” people, who the Dems have successfully contracepted/aborted into irrelevance. The permanent underclass he “leads” rails against the very people that feed, clothe, and house them (I won’t even include “educate” in that). In my area they are being displaced by Hispanics pronto.
FWIW, I have always believed that if Adolf Hitler were black, he’d look like Jesse. Similar mannerisms.
Anyway, I hope the renegade priest “Fr.” Pfleger goes with him and gets TAZed or maced.
I’d like to see him leading a march on and into some of the gun shops I frequent. A lot of hash would be settled on that day...!
I love it when a plan comes together!
That’s not how they roll...
It’s usually 10 or more on one before they’re brave enough to take any action.
“That’s like announcing you’re gonna’ kick a Marine’s ass.”
Ha!
They may as well go into the Dealer’s showroom and pull a gun out. You know, just to see what happens ;D!
I'd organize a group buy and we'd all show up to buy armloads of stuff; after the newsies arrived, of course, so the whole world could see it.
Jesse does not care about where gang bangers get their guns. he's fine with gang bangers having guns.
Jesse is upset that the Middle Class can get guns to defend themselves against gang bangers and rioting mobs from gun shops. THAT is what Jesse and Al Sharpton are really upset about.
Teddy Kennedy’s Oldsmobile has killed more people than ALL the guns owned by ALL the people I have ever met and I am over 70.
Perhaps Jesse should march against car dealers!!!
Lord knows he has far fewer of them to march in front of since Obama closed so many of them already.
(10) Don’t mess with a junkyard dog.
We'd better plan for far more than that. Fortunately, many of us already have.
Then Martin Luther King would be alive today.
That would be the wrong place for Jesse’s hooded racists to go wildin’.
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