It’s not clear what was more crazy about this video, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. blaming Republicans for the Obama unemployment rate or Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. blaming the IPad for killing jobs.
Via Real Clear Video:

The unemployment rate increased from 4.6% to 9.4% during the Pelosi years.

The unemployment rate has skyrocketed under Obama.

The percent of the population that is working fell to its lowest level last year since women started entering the workforce in large numbers three decades ago during the Reagan years. More Americans now work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.

 

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  1. #1 April 16, 2011 at 4:14 pm

    aprilnovember811 commented:

    They’re insane.

  2. #2 April 16, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    Joe College commented:

    I’ll bet if they gave him some money he’d shut up.

  3. #3 April 16, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    Valerie commented:

    And the housing bubble, high taxes and high gasoline prices had nothing to do with it….

  4. #4 April 16, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Dwayne the Canoe Guy commented:

    Why isn’t he bitching about the loss of all the buggy whip manufacturing jobs? Al Gore needs to bust him upside the head because USING LESS PAPER IS A GOOD THING!?!?!?!?!

  5. #5 April 16, 2011 at 4:31 pm

    StrangernFiction commented:

    Just another batsh!t crazy member of the ‘rat special forces.

  6. #6 April 16, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    gus commented:

    A Chip off the old block. Stupid as a box of TAMPAX, and elected by idiots.

  7. #7 April 16, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    Marsh626 commented:

    What is he suggesting? That we ban iPads? Or that we create government provided jobs for these people?

    Yeah… That idea was already tried before. It was called communism and it failed miserably.

  8. #8 April 16, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    Indigo Red commented:

    Does anyone have any suggestions for the employees who have or will lose their jobs because current printed matter is completely digitized?

    I was in a supermarket yesterday and overheard a conversation between two people in the self-checkout line. They were complaining about the high prices and the lack of jobs, yet there they were in the self-serve line denying a worker a job because they were more intent on doing for themselves for no salary and still paying higher prices to support the technology to self-checkout and proving to the manager that the store can operate with even fewer employees.

    Sorry folks. Jackson is right on this one.

  9. #9 April 16, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    Will commented:

    Oh my God, he’s got the “Stupid” quick disinfect EVERYTHING!

  10. #10 April 16, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    dunce commented:

    Genetic flaws are often inherited,considering his fathers sex habits, he may have a half dozen crazy half brothers. The guys in the hood call each other brother because the promiscuity of their mothers, they probably are.

  11. #11 April 16, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Will commented:

    To #8 ARE. YOU. KIDDING?

  12. #12 April 16, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    Indigo Red commented:

    To #11 NO. I’M. NOT.

  13. #13 April 16, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    donabernathy commented:

    Jeeeebus… Professor Douche Wad

    roflmao

  14. #14 April 16, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    StrangernFiction commented:

    #8 April 16, 2011 at 4:42 pm
    Indigo Red commented:

    Just wow!

  15. #15 April 16, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Mac in NM commented:

    That entire family is daft!

  16. #16 April 16, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    M.Minnesota commented:

    Jackson complains of the ipad and yet they always want a laptop or a netbook for every student.

  17. #17 April 16, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    Josh commented:

    Must be the evil white capitalist racist blue-eyed devil tea party patriots involved in a right wing conspiracy against black people.

    I am tired of these race baiting anti capitalist liberals whining everytime somebody can’t pay a light bill or afford the latest gadget. Tell them to get a job and go to work.

  18. #18 April 16, 2011 at 5:37 pm

    Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:

    #8 April 16, 2011 at 4:42 pm
    Indigo Red commented:

    Hello retard!

  19. #19 April 16, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    JoeyO commented:

    Who does he think makes, services and sells the IPads? Puppies? Or does he think it just magically appears into peoples hands?

    Hey Dumba$$ – it creates jobs when you actually make and sell things!

    (to his credit though, it is extremely difficult for all Commies/Socialists to grasp this rather simple fact; so I don’t hold him personally responsible for such an idiotic statement. Rather, its the colleges that teach Utopian Ideological over practical reality which are probably really to blame…)

  20. #20 April 16, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    whit seven commented:

    This was a comedy sketch waiting to happen. Too bad so many comics in America have such a reverential attitude toward this loon and his dad.
    Technology causes job shifts and changes, it doesn’t take jobs.

  21. #21 April 16, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    No Man commented:

    So that’s why 41% of Americans, and 35% of independent voters, think Obama is doing a satisfctory job. By this time in the 10 post WWII recession/recoveries jobs were higher 4.5% than they were before the recession. Now, they are 0.1%. Plus, comparing the same recoveries each American would be about $3,000 richer each years going forward. Regulatioins, threatening entrepreneurs, Dodd-Frank, taxes, taking over health care all killed the recovery.

    I blame Bush for not issuing a signing statement/executive order prohibiting incompetent, demagogues to be on the ballot in a presidential election.

  22. #22 April 16, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    Midwestengr commented:

    The apple NUT doesn’t fall far from the tree!

  23. #23 April 16, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    JoeyO commented:

    “So that’s why 41% of Americans, and 35% of independent voters, think Obama is doing a satisfctory job.”

    Yeah, but you always have to factor in the black vote in such totals. They still support him at a rate well over 80% – remove that level of support and you realize its almost non-existent.

    Plus, I’ll tell you, being in L.A. (CA) most of my conversations about him come not only with blacks, but also actual self-proclaimed democrats. They don’t like him! They “support” him because he is the first black president – but they don’t like him or his policies.

    And that’s likely why there is such a gigantic (almost unbelievable) disconnect between his “approval rating” and every one of his actual policies approval ratings in all these polls…

  24. #24 April 16, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Andreas K. commented:

    Now we have the ultimate proof: stupidity is a genetic thing, it can be passed on to following generations.

  25. #25 April 16, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    Ritchie The Riveter commented:

    Higher prices for self-checkout, Indigo Red?

    I don’t think so … they wouldn’t be buying the technology, otherwise. Keep in mind the technology the humans are using to do the same job … it isn’t that much less.

    And with that technology, you also don’t have to worry about it calling in sick … or texting to their BFFs while customers wait in line … or being unable to reconcile their cash drawer.

    All that reduces costs, and prices (thanks to competition) … which means that EVERYONE ELSE’s purchasing power grows.

    Even those with the lowest incomes. Re-, er, Progressives never seem to count that expansion of purchasing power as a benefit to the less fortunate.

    Why isn’t it the responsibility of the WORKER to remain competitive, if they want to keep the job … or find a position where they can be competitive. Why do we “owe” them support at our expense?

    OTOH, I do like to use a human checker/bagger myself if I have more than one or two things … but that is my choice, for my convenience, and I will pay the price for the added value I perceive.

    But I don’t sit up on a pedestal, and demand that others give up that choice to save a job of someone I deem “worthy” of protection.

  27. #27 April 16, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    Mike commented:

    Wait for it….shake down time! If you give me some money, I’ll stop talking about you money grubbing capitalists…

  28. #28 April 16, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    toongoon commented:

    #8 Indigo Red commented:

    He sounds good doesn’t he? His whole message was that the pubs weren’t doing anything. He was in the 111th congress and sat on his ass doing nothing and now that they don’t control congress any more he is blaming the republicans.

    You can give him kudos for saying it but he didn’t have any ideas now or the last two years.
    Party politics at its best and it worked didn’t it?

  29. #29 April 16, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    Jingo commented:

    Unabomber seen nodding in approval.

  30. #30 April 16, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    workingclass artist commented:

    Biting the hand that feeds ya….Weren’t those ( “Oh something shiny…” OBOT “creative class warrior geeks” ) a significant part of the “new” democratic base in 08′…..

  31. #32 April 16, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    silentcal_rox commented:

    just a chip off of the old block!! (can i say that. or is it a HATE CRIME?)

  32. #33 April 16, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    Peter Warner commented:

    A few days ago some congresswoman was going on and on about we need a ‘vision’ for the future, and government should pay for that ‘vision’, instead of worrying about debt.

    Is this congressman providing some of that ‘vision’? The ‘vision’ is to regress? To reject technology advances and go back to publication and production methods of last decade? This is not adding up somehow.

    My word- this man wants us to ‘save jobs’ by going back to last decade, meanwhile the rest of the world is surging ahead with latest technology and labor-saving methods. (Some of them with unfriendly intentions, by the way.)

    Obama was saying a few days ago that America was becoming a third-world nation. Mr. Jackson here seems to be leading that effort. Color me confused.

    Best regards, Peter Warner.

  33. #34 April 16, 2011 at 11:21 pm

    Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish blog commented:

    and yet a few months ago, Jackson wanted to force the government to give every student an ipad

    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/148879-jackson-an-ipad-for-every-schoolchild

  34. #35 April 17, 2011 at 2:53 am

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    just a chip off the old racist block.

  35. #38 April 17, 2011 at 8:34 am

    jorgen commented:

    Indigo Red: Does anyone have any suggestions for the employees who have or will lose their jobs because current printed matter is completely digitized?

    Don’t worry. They will be busy printing food stamps for us all.

  36. #39 April 17, 2011 at 8:51 am

    truth teller commented:

    Another fine examle of the genetically inferior.

  37. #40 April 17, 2011 at 8:54 am

    Ritchie The Riveter commented:

    And let’s not forget … employment was GROWING during the Bush years … until the growth ABRUPTLY flattened right when the Dims took over Congress in early 2007.

    http://www.agoyandhisblog.com/2010/03/26/every-picture-tells-a-story-dont-it/

    Looks to me like business responded to the “stimulus” of the wealth re-distributors taking power … two years before the Porkulus.

  38. #41 April 17, 2011 at 8:55 am

    Ritchie The Riveter commented:

    Daniel Greenfield … now THAT is priceless!

  39. #42 April 17, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    Mike M commented:

    So, let’s make IPads illegal. But, we can do way better than that. Let’s also make illegal TV’s, PC’s, stereos, and most every entertainment device out there since they are almost all made offshore. I don’t suppose JJjr uses any of those items, so he’ll never miss them.

  40. #44 April 17, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    Dan commented:

    I think he’s on to something here, destroy productivity to save a few low wage jobs. Perhaps we should expand this idea to other areas as well? Maybe we can save a few jobs by getting off oil, coal, and nuclear power as well?

  41. #45 April 18, 2011 at 12:09 am

    JoeyO commented:

    “So, let’s make IPads illegal. But, we can do way better than that. Let’s also make illegal TV’s, PC’s, stereos, and most every entertainment device out there”

    Similar actions worked for the USSR – made it much, much, much easier to control the bricks…

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