Romney: jobs report "disappointing"
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday called the latest jobs report "disappointing," saying in an interview with Fox News that it confirms his argument that "we're going in the wrong direction."
The Labor Department estimated that the U.S. economy added 96,000 jobs in July, and that unemployment fell to 8.1 percent because hundreds of thousands of Americans gave up looking for work.
"Obviously, another disappointing monthly figure," Romney said. "And I know the White House keeps saying that you can't look at just monthly numbers. But if you look over the last several quarters, the last several years, you see the continued pattern, which is that we're not creating the jobs we need to create to put Americans back to work. For every net new job created, about four people dropped out of the workforce. So we're going in the wrong direction."
August jobs report disappoints with tepid numbers
Romney also cited the lack of a rise in wages: "So no increase in wages, declining wages actually, declining number of people being able to find work, people dropping out of the workforce -- it's another continuation of very bleak news on the unemployment front."
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Romney's running mate, also castigated Obama for the jobs numbers. "This is not even close to what a recovery looks like," Ryan said in an interview on CNBC.
Earlier, Romney threw cold water on President Obama's promise for improving the country's future, issuing a statement that referred to Thursday's Democratic National Convention. "If last night was the party, this morning is the hangover," said Romney in the statement.
e went on to blame Obama for 43 straight months of unemployment above 8.1 percent - a statistic he referenced later when talking with reporters after the Fox interview.
"The message from last night was that the president's plan is four more years of the last four years," he said. "And I don't think the American people want four more years of the last four years. I think they want to see more jobs, they want to see their kids coming out of college able to get jobs, they want to see rising incomes again. There's no question if they listened to the president last night he gave them no confidence whatsoever that he has any plan to make America's economy start to create the jobs he ought to be creating."
Romney told reporters he was satisfied with the results of last week's Republican convention even though it has not provided him with much of the traditional a "bounce" in polls.
"I'm pleased people got to know me better," he said. "That's one of the things we hoped to receive from our convention. Rather than 30-second ads we had much more time to talk to American people. Those that took the time to watch and listen in depth to the things that were said in the convention, I think got a better picture of what I stand for, what I do to get America working again."
Romney also had a ready answer to Obama's crack during his Thursday speech that his rival wouldn't be ready for diplomacy in Beijing because he couldn't go to London without offending the British - a reference to the controversy that the former Salt Lake City Olympics organizer ignited when he highlighted some of the pre-Olympic problems in London.
"I'm very pleased that my Olympic experience allows me to talk about the Olympics in a straight-talk manner, and I think it would be appropriate if the president would talk to China in a straight-talk manner," Romney said. "They have manipulated their currency for well over a decade. They have taken American jobs and I think it's totally appropriate to show backbone and strength as we deal with other nations around the world. Nothing wrong with telling people the truth."
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What is really needed is to force, by law, the corps which outsourced jobs overseas to return them. The Dems, before the last mid-term election, sponsored legislation to do precisely that, but the Republiscums in the Congress voted against and kept it from happening. They had the best interests of their rich owners to care for by doing that, and to hell with unemployed working people. Those people, who lost their jobs via outsourcing, are always told by Republicsum Rich Basturds to "get a job ya' lazy bum" after they (Republiscum Rich Basturds) stole their jobs and outsourced them for higher dividends.
The exact criminal nature of Republican politicos -- take the jobs from working middle class people, and then call them "lazy bums," because they are not working as the result of this evil Republiscum deed.
After ww 2 Germany banned its Nazi Party making it illegal to this day to form another such a Party. IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE AS A NATION, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE MUST SOMEDAY DO FOR THE REPUBLISCUM PARTY .
That's right. Keep the pipeline of which this type of oil is known to leak and poison the ground and the water so the rich can have another investment opportunity and "create jobs." Jobs worth more than clean water and oil/tar-free non-poisoned environment. The jobs part of that deal is a lie anyway, because the rich only hire illegal immigrants so as to save big on salary costs.
What is really needed is to force, by law, the corps which outsourced jobs overseas to return them. The Dems sponsored legislation to do precisely that, but the Republiscums in the Congress voted against and kept it from happening. They had the best interests of their rich owners by doing that and to hell with unemployed working people. Those people are always told by Republicsum Rich Basturds to "get a job ya' lazy bum" after they (Republiscum Rich Basturds) stole their jobs and outsourced them for higher dividends.
The exact criminal nature of Republican politicos -- take the jobs from working middle class people, and then call them "lazy bums," because they are not working as the result of this evil Republiscum deed.
After ww 2 Germany banned its Nazi Party making it illegal, to this day, to form such a Party. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE MUST SOMEDAY DO FOR THE REPUBLISCUM PARTY, IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE AS A NATION.
The big revenue-drainer is the Pentagon. The Repubs in Congress fork the revenue over to the Pentagon, the Pentagon then forks it over to weapons making corps, the WM corps then fork it over to their stock investors in the form of dividends. That's how the Republican Party gives most of the budget to their rich owners -- via dividends in weapons for war. That's why the new standard issue rifle, for example, for the military will cost $30,000. each --- higher the cost of the weapon the higher the dividend going to stock holders,with the super rich (owning more stock) getting the biggest amount of our revenue or tax dollars.
*FACT: IF THE RICH WERE FORCED TO PAY THEIR ENTIRE SHARE OF TAXES, THE MIDDLE CLASS WOULD PAY VERY LITTLE IF ANY AT ALL.
*Then there'll be no new jobs, answers the Republican politico simps on behalf of their rich owners!
*What new jobs? Oh yeah, the ones they created in Asia and Latin America, you mean. They do not create jobs in America, because they get cheaper labor ($2,00 a day and no benefits)in Third World nations.
Wanna' worsen this situation, then vote Republican, because they created all of it on behalf of their rich owners.
Will you say the same things in four years if Obama is reelected? Some of us feel four years is a long enough probationary period for the president. What do you expect will change with four more years of Obama?
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For us more pragmatic people, four years was never going to be enough to undo eight years of Bush. It took nearly 15 years to get out of the Great Depression.