Harry Reid Blames GOP For Latest Dismal Jobs Report
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 8, 2012, 11:45 AM
Yesterday the Labor Department reported that 368,000 people dropped out of the labor force in August while U.S. employers added only 96,000 jobs.
It was the 43rd straight month that the unemployment rate was 8.0 percent or higher.
The civilian labor force participation rate is now at its lowest level since September 1981. (AEIdeas)
Senator Harry Reid blamed Republicans for the dismal jobs report.
What a shocker.
The Hill reported, via FOX Nation:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said it was Republicans’ fault the August jobs report wasn’t better.
“While our recovery is still moving too slowly for many Americans, job growth would likely have been even stronger if Republicans had not blocked Democratic efforts to hire more teachers, firefighters and police officers,” Reid said in a statement Friday.
The Bureau for Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 96,000 jobs in August and unemployment fell to 8.1 percent, but Reid said quicker economic recovery is needed.
“The best way to speed up our recovery is for Republicans to stop their knee-jerk obstruction of every effort Democrats put forward and start working across the aisle to find common ground,” Reid said.
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Patty commented:
Get rid of Reid in November: PROBLEM SOLVED. Sick of the lies and the attacks, it is wearing thin and WE ARE BORED WITH HIS SENILITY.
chuck in st paul commented:
Everyone knows that all successful countries taxed their way to wealth and success. All we have to do is take 90% of the wealthy folks’ money and we’ll be in utopia.
Mulligan22 commented:
The folks he mentioned are GOVERNMENT employees. How does this guy figure we are going to pay them if we don’t have a robust PRIVATE sector to get taxes from?
Militant conservative commented:
Patty,
Showing your ignorance. Reed
Got re elected in2010 for a 6 year term.
Pubs have passed no legislation to hurt or help the economy. So we are under the dems policies they put into place. How’s that working out?
hdx2 commented:
Senator Reid, member of Satan’s party, haters of God and anti-semitic, supporters of Hamas and the Muslim brotherhood, murderers of the innocent and saviours of the guilty. The party of enslavement and oppression. Promoters of victimization, lies and excuses.
Hey Reid, the economy would be much better if you did not “stop your knee-jerk obstruction of every effort Republicans put forward and start working across the aisle to find common ground,”
Economan commented:
Who keeps voting for this incompetent idiot over and over again?
Robert commented:
This just shows how intellectually inept these people are, as if adding more public empoyees paid for with more borrowed money by bankrupt localities will spur the economy. Maybe they could get some of their cronies to spend some of the government money they have gotten. Or maybe Reid could even allow an actual FEDERAL BUDGET to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote, instead of running the government by continuing resolutions and borrowed printed paper money.
∅ commented:
What legislation did the Republican Senators block? He never gives those types of details. I wonder why?
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said it was Republicans’ fault the August jobs report wasn’t better.
An appropriate response to this would be to hold up the Middle Finger right in his face.
Robert commented:
Thank Nevada for this corrupt partisan hack who is largely
responsible for the country’s finances being in shambles.
And thank the Democrat party for putting extremist leftist
politics ahead of any slightest hint of fiscal responsibility.
hdx2 commented:
correction “Hey Reid, the economy would be much better if you DID “stop your knee-jerk obstruction of every effort Republicans put forward and start working across the aisle to find common ground,”
iamsaved commented:
This is typical liberal projection Knee jerk reaction by the Republicans? I don’t think so. It’s the partisans like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi that have the knee jerk reactions to any proposal the conservatives put forward. In fact, the left rarerly puts anything forward. All they do is block.
Robert commented:
You have to understand “start working across the aisle to find common ground” means to go along with some new spending program now in return for a vague agreement to cut costs somewhere else later, which said cut never occurs.
Grandma Perkins commented:
Oh dear!
Patty commented:
OT
“In Florida, Obama says US not a nation in decline”, yes, he did say this.
And on topic. Get rid of Reid and Nancy and Obama: PROBLEM SOLVED.
Summernite commented:
Biden said at the Convention that “America is NOT in Decline”. Well, either his plugs are too tight or he’s viewing this chart upside down.
radioone commented:
When was this bill introduced?? It’s all smoke and mirrors, and the “DNC/media Complex” just goes along.
Cutlers Bad Thumb commented:
The only thing this d!p$%it knows how to do is read cowboy poetry and eat pomegranates.First stages of Alzheimer’s is really taking its toll.
Patty commented:
Harry’s big lie, and here are the actual facts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Obama Didn’t Create 4.5 Million Jobs
So I went to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and I pulled every single month for the years of 2010, 2011, and 2012, okay? In 2010, there were 850,000 net new jobs created, of which 411,000 of them were from the census workers, the temp jobs. In 2011, 1,152,000, and in 2012 so far, 1,017,000. I didn’t include 2009, because those were all losses for every month, and I give Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt for the first year of his term.
Well, that’s what they claim, but my point is: Why can they continue to say that 4.5 million jobs were created when they couldn’t validate that anywhere?
But how long can they continue before somebody challenges them on it?
It wasn’t Bill Clinton that saved the economy. Of course it was Republican Congress and the American people. We went to work. We created the jobs. We’re the ones that do it, but the Democrats on national television — luckily nobody was watching — just prove again that they think they’re the big dog, and that the American people should just tag along like little puppies.
This was from a Rush Limbaugh caller.
More transcipts here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/09/06/obama_didn_t_create_4_5_million_jobs
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