When I was a youngster, still embroiled in the public education system that James Earl Carter turned into the non learning disaster it is today, during every election I heard the same mantra. Democrats want to get America working. They want to create jobs, jobs, jobs. Of course, Jimmy Carter failed so miserably in that endeavor, as well as every other thing he tried his hand at while President, that Ronald Reagan handed him the worst electoral defeat in history. (Two things of note here, one is that the electoral landslide record defeat suffered by Carter was eclipsed during the next election when Walter Mondale trotted out the very same policy ideas and asked Americans if they wouldn’t rather return to those glory days. The second thing to note is that as late as 1 week prior to Carter’s lambasting, he supposedly enjoyed a substantial lead in the polls of the day.)
Ronald Reagan was elected in November of 1980, he took the oath of office in January of 1981, and by the Summer of 1984, Americans were enjoying the beginnings of an economic boom that saw a net gain of over 5 Million jobs, the beginnings of our disastrous inflationary spiral being brought under control, and the greatest period of wealth creation in world history that lasted until the end of the Clinton Presidency some 20 years later. I use the term net jobs gained since our current President, while pointing to the failed economic policies of the past decade, somehow manages to miss the true historical perspective of calling them the wildly successful economic policies of the past 32 years or the past 236 years. While the current POTUS touts a number of 4 Million new hires or jobs created during his turn as our chief executive, he fails to mention that he only begins his time frame from after he’d been in office for 7 months already, and that many Americans also lost their jobs during the same period. We have had a net jobs loss during Obama’s time. In fact, the net jobs loss is so great that our labor force participation rate is lower than it was during the great depression.
So, is there a place in America where we can look at positive numbers concerning the jobs front? As it turns out, there is.
Kansas – 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8%
Maine – 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Michigan – 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of 2.4%
New Mexico – 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of 1.0%
Oklahoma – 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of 1.4%
Pennsylvania – 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Tennessee – 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of 1.6%
Wisconsin – 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of 0.9%
Wyoming – 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of 1.1%
Alabama – 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of 1.9%
Georgia – 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of 1.2%
South Carolina – 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of 1.5%
South Dakota – 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of 0.7%
Florida – 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of 2.3%
Nevada – 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of 2.2%
Iowa – 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of 1.0%
Ohio – 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of 1.7%
What the above 17 states have in common, is that each of them elected a new Republican Governor less than two years ago. You may be asking about the converse argument. What about the 8 states who elected new Democrat Governors in 2010? Well, as luck would have it, we have those statistics as well.
Colorado – 8.8% to 8.1% = a decline of 0.7%
New York – 8.2% to 8.6% = an increase of 0.4%
Oregon – 9.9% to 8.4% = a decline of 1.5%
California – 12.1% to 10.8% = a decline of 1.3%
Connecticut – 9.3% to 7.8% = a decline of 1.5%
Hawaii – 6.7% to 6.3% = a decline of 0.4%
Minnesota – 6.8% to 5.6% = a decline of 1.2%
Vermont – 6.0% to 4.6% = a decline of 1.4%
The average drop in unemployment in the states with new Republican Governors is 1.35%. The average drop in states with new Democrat leadership is .95%. That represents a full 50% improvement in the results with GOP leadership. For those of you who argue that there is no difference between the two major political parties, here is the proof to the contrary.
One of the truly brilliant consequences of setting up a government that was made up of 50 individual states rather than a single nation which happened to contain 50 constituent geographic territories, is that we can see which programs work, which ones don’t. When Mitt Romney inflicted a socialized health system on the people of Massachusetts, along with 8 other states, those of us living in Ohio could look at the failure created there and say to ourselves, we’d rather not do that. This by the way has been Romney’s defense of his state insurance mandate in Massachusetts, and from a Constitutional perspective anyhow, he is correct.
Part of the reasoning I always hear from Liberals, Progressives, No Labels, or what ever in the heck the political left wants to call themselves these days is that we should judge them by their intentions and not their actual results. Their attempts to pass legislation which some what attempts to mitigate the disastrous results of some prior intrusion into the free market system, inflicted by leftists of the past, shows that they really care. At some point in time though, when you should realize that your policies cause the very things that you claim to care so much about, isn’t it time to change direction, and indeed truly cruel not to do so?
Cross Posted At Musings of a Mad Conservative.
A good comparison would be Repub governors that have been there for a while vs. Dems that have been there for a while. A while being at least 1 full term.
Clearly you are an evil right winger RAAAAACIST Flyover…
@ doriangrey:
isn’t a right winger, evil, and raaaaacist mean all the same thing? I mean, you are being redundantly redundant.
Another bright spot in the 2010 elections that gave us a GOP majority of governors and in the House of Reps, over 700 GOP state legislators were newly elected. Truly a monumental sweep. We need to flush out the socialists from the bottom up. The results of the 2010 election indicate that more and more people are willing to vote the straight republican ticket. Very encouraging.
When they get the same results over and over, and they keep doing the same thing, you have to assume that they are getting the results that they want. That tells me more about their real intentions than all their “but we mean well” platitudes. They want the destruction that they are getting.
huckfunn wrote:
This is going to loom very large in November, very large.
@ Iron Fist:
Well, that or that they’re just stupid.
Either way, it’s not a good reason to vote for them…
MacDuff wrote:
From reconstruction up until the 1980′s, Texas was almost solid democrat. Now, only 9 of our 32 Congress critters are dems and most of those are from the urban counties. The GOP holds the Texas House and Senate by veto proof majorities. The last dem governor we had was Butch Richards in 1990. She was defeated by George Bush in 1994.
huckfunn wrote:
texas needs austin…just like every big city needs a zoo.
@ huckfunn:
coldwarrior wrote:
Ain’t it the truth? However, with the recent redistricting, I’m not in that district anymore so Lloyd Doggett will not be my rep after the upcoming election.
@ Flyovercountry:
I remember that well. GWB beat her like a drum.
Great new Hank, Jr. song. Take Back Our Country. A lot of good Obama slams:
Hmmm. Notice a pattern?
Toughest States for Retirees
http://www.aarp.org/work/retirement-planning/info-12-2010/10-worst-states-for-retirement.html
Check out the reason why, check out the State color on that little electoral map.
@ pat:
Kind of scanty information there. “Nevada: foreclosure capital.” Well, for a retiree who would presumably not be taking out a mortgage, that might be a side issue. It may very well mean that there are plenty of desirable properties that could be picked up cheap out of foreclosure.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
In fact friends of mine are picking up incredible bargains. Beautiful 4 bedroom homes with enclosed garages for $150K. the problem is black crime, illegals, and squatters that are also drawn to nearly empty neighborhoods. But some neighborhoods are excellent.
@ huckfunn:
Now if only one day we can get a Economic/Fiscal Conservative at the top of the GOP ticket on a national level. That should be our aim after this election.
@ huckfunn:
Love it
Elect Conservative Republicans.
The RINO’s go along with commie Democrats.
ie= McCain and AZ with its illegal immigration problem.
@ taxfreekiller:
Stay out the Bushes!
Of Some Note:
Me I’m happy as a pig in slop that Romney got boo’d by the NAACP, this way he gets it in his face what he is up aginst.
They are not going to go along with even common sense.
These commie Democrats in power now in Washington D.C. would drag him out in the street and beat the shit out of him given the chance.
Not good but it is what it is.
The Republicans better get ready for a knock down drag out bar fight.
@ taxfreekiller:
They only booed one part. At the end he got a standing ovation.
They did that because they think he is another easy mark like McCain.@ Rodan:
If you stand up aginst their commie shit they turn on like vampire rats.
Lance Armstrong dismissal court order. I actually read it. It was short and easy to understand and talks about a part of law I didn’t know existed.
I have to laugh at some of these judges who get irritated at plaintiffs and defendants and have a hissy fit in court. This one didn’t. He was instructive.
We assume judges will be fair and represent the country well. But in practice a lot of them are children still. I guess that is why there is an appeals process.
Romney Endures Quadrennial Republican “Bitch Slapping” at NAALCP Convention, Survives
Rodan wrote:
Resist we much! 8)
@ huckfunn:
I’ll have to listen to that with my headphones on — squishy libs in the office will be OFFENDED.
@ taxfreekiller:
I think he got an applause because he mentioned what his father George Romney did as Governor of Michigan for civil rights.
@ MacDuff:
Actually see my 22. He actually got a standing ovation at the end.
US Black society is like a black with with an extreme negative gravity well. Pretty tough to reach escape velocity in search of a better life without it sucking you back in and making you small again. Doesn’t exists in other black cultures around the world. Does exist in the Taliban. In chavez lands.
@ taxfreekiller:
Not only did he get booed, but he got it while delivering what would have been considered the red meat material at any CPAC convention. He enunciated our most conservative principles and did not bother with pandering in the slightest. If I wasn’t under the impression that Romney was a Rino already, this speech would certainly not have pushed me to that conclusion. I have hope for him yet!
@ pat:
I LOVE IT that Обамастан is A-Number-1 on that list! I hope it goes under before Kah-LEE-fornia!
I do think this election is about jobs and mortgages. Obama is the short term fixer in it for himself. IF he can fool enough people, he can get reelected and then screw them over with abandon.
Mitt needs a mortgage problem that is actually useful and will generate him votes. He needs to talk a lot about his confidence in creating new jobs by getting rid of dead weight.
@ Flyovercountry: I think Romney is a pragmatist with a lot of business experience. But there is a lot of thin air at his elite level cocktail parties that is out of touch with me. That is where I would hope being a Morman grounds him well.
So if one has a wife and she forgets your anniversary two years in a row? Is she a keeper? I am getting too metrosexual. I need to go beat on some hipster somewhere with the butt of my strap.
Rodan wrote:
Watching the thing live, I thought that they were polite but anything but warm. Yes, I think they paid a bit of tribute to his father, but I certainly didn’t sense they were receptive to his message. I kinda winced for him, at times it was painful.
Even rodents are protesting obamacare.
@ MacDuff: How would one go about creating doubt about Obama at an NAACP convention? IT seems like the perfect audience to test.
Flyovercountry wrote:
He didn’t “tailor his message” for his audience; he laid it out and took his licks. Good performance!
Macker wrote:
Kah-LEE-fornia is already going under one municipality at a time. Sacramento is really going to be screwed when the cumulative effect of all of the largest counties filing for Chapter 9 finally sinks in.
darkwords wrote:
I think that’s practically unattainable. He may not have “succeeded” in terms of gaining support, but neither did he “fail spectacularly”; given the audience, that’s a measure of success.
darkwords wrote:
Assuming that that is even possible begins with denying reality. Reality is, that 99 percent of African-American’s voted for Barack Obama. That is indisputable scientific evidence that racism is systemic and institutional throughout the African-American Community.
doriangrey wrote:
“Trickle-up bankruptcy”….Kah-LEE-fornia is just the leading edge, there’s a lot of states queued up to follow closely.
Later, peeps.
@ MacDuff:
What he did, was signal to the conservative base, in no uncertain terms, that he is committed to our message and the values we hold dear. Think back to McCain’s first two weeks post convention. He had to spend that time trying to convince his own party that he belonged within our fold. Romney has accomplished that task today, in one speech delivered on enemy turf so to speak. For those independents out there, who mistakenly believe that there is no differences between candidates, he sent a clear signal, he plans on returning to the days of Reagan. I just hope he has the resolve to follow through. Resolve was Reagan’s greatest gift.
Six charts that show the welfare state run amok.
@ MacDuff:
That;’s what I think. That when he brought up his father, they applauded him out of respect. But they didn’t like his message. Progressives are Progressives regardless of the color.
@ Flyovercountry:
Did you get my email from last night?
@ Rodan:
no story there, really….
not at all comparable to BO’s campaign problems
doriangrey wrote:
They aren’t homogeneous. I’ll bet many will exit poll as if they voted Obama
@ Rodan:
Yes I have, and I’ve been researching it a little. If you are correct, a takeover would not only be possible, but interestingly easy. One of the things I’ve discovered is that there are about a third of the positions which are never run for, but that someone who may be appointed by an insider. Often times these appointments cross precinct lines. Not sure if that’s legal or not.
@ waldensianspirit:
Not entirely homogeneous, no, but there is a big problem with people who want to be seen as “authenticly” black. If you don’t behave a certain way, you aren’t “authentic”. Obama worries about his authenticity constantly, if his autobiography is to be believed. Needless to say this whole attitude is extremely racist, but it is there nonetheless.
@ Iron Fist:
That attitude is aided by White Hipsters Progressives. See Charles Johnson!
@ Flyovercountry:
I’m going to do a post on it. I am also going to start attending Republican meetings where I live.
They don’t know what’s about to hit them!
Iron Fist wrote:
I seem to recall the “Reverend” Al Sharpton sing about that authenticity concept: