Hey, Ma’am, Where are the Jobs?
Golden State Loses 17 times as many jobs in September alone as created or saved by “stimulus” in eight months
Chiding Senate Republicans in February for trying to slow passage of the Democrats’ spendthrift “so-called stimulus” package, Ma’am Barbara Boxer said swift action was necessary because jobs “were being lost every minute“.
In a statement made after the Senate passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AKA the “stimulus”), legislation Mrs. Boxer’s office claimed would “save or create millions of jobs and stabilize an economy in crisis,” the Golden State’s junior Senator repeated this mantra, “There is a very simple, urgent reason for this bill: We need to save jobs and we need to create jobs.”
In a followup statement highlighting a White House estimate “that the legislation will save or create approximately 400,000 jobs in California,” she assured us jobs would be created in the Golden State:
In the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Congress has acted today to save or create jobs in California and across the nation. With so many Californians anxious about the economy, this legislation offers help and hope. This bill will put Californians to work now building the highways, bridges, transit and rail systems, and renewable energy sources of the 21st century.
Eight months later and only 2,260 of those jobs have been created (or saved) in the Golden State, less than 1% of the number the White House promised (with Mrs. Boxer’s blessing). And those 2,260 jobs created in the past eight months barely make a dent in the 39,300 jobs lost last month alone, “nearly six times the number of jobs the state now says were lost in August“.
Or seventeen times the number of jobs created in eight months by the “stimulus” for whose swift passage Mrs. Boxer agitated.
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But haven’t you hear, the recession is over! Everything is all better now!!!!
Comment by Sonicfrog — October 21, 2009 @ 9:38 pm - October 21, 2009
I live in the Inland Empire. I havent seen any new roads built. I havent seen many of the old roads repaired. I havent seen any light rail put in that can actually be used by citizens. Mrs. Boxer’s statements for rationalizing for passing this emergency bill have been proven false. She didnt show up for any meetings with the citizens of this State. My emails to her office have been answered by bs, generic replies. I went part time back in January 2009 and many people have become unemployed. I heard that some of the stimulus money was used to repaint buildings so that current employees of the recipient could be busy. Wow!!!
Comment by killiteten - Native Intelligence — October 21, 2009 @ 9:47 pm - October 21, 2009
So isn’t it true that a lot of the financial ruin of California is dependent on the ties of state income to income tax, rather than more regular, dependable, and wealth affecting sources like real estate because of the anti-tax policies that the state congress and administration have always put first and foremost? Californian Republicans insist on a more risky mode of state funding now in peril and now they’re upset at Democratic leaders who are essentially saying “we told you so.”
Fellahs, if you want to do the right thing, I suggest you make sure your own party doesn’t repeat this folly rather than bitch and moan about the other party you feel isn’t correcting your mistakes quick enough.
Comment by Countervail — October 21, 2009 @ 11:42 pm - October 21, 2009
I have been unable to make comments because according to my server Comcast some one is blocking my transmissions. I will be anxious to see if this one will be blocked. Has anyone else being having this trouble?
Comment by John W — October 22, 2009 @ 12:16 am - October 22, 2009
#3
Blame Republicans for liberal fuck-ups in California? Oh that’s rich.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 22, 2009 @ 1:11 am - October 22, 2009
So isn’t it true that a lot of the financial ruin of California is dependent on the ties of state income to income tax, rather than more regular, dependable, and wealth affecting sources like real estate because of the anti-tax policies that the state congress and administration have always put first and foremost?
No; it’s because the leftist Obama Party, in complete control of the Legislature, wastes immense sums of money on state bureaucracy and welfare and has set up a tax system so harsh that it punishes working people, small businesses, and the drivers of a good economy.
Roughly 40 percent of California’s income-tax revenue comes from the much-harped-upon top 1 percent of earners. Thanks in part to the “millionaire tax” approved by voters in 2004, California’s income-tax rate has reached 10.55 percent on the highest earnings — second only to Obama’s native Hawaii, which taxes some income at 11 percent.
High tax rates on individuals, of course, hit many small businesses hard. If you wonder why the California economy is going so much worse than most of the country, this is a good place to start.
California has to answer for its treatment of corporations as well, socking them with an income-tax rate that is just shy of 9 percent. Since the U.S. federal rate is so high relative to our trading partners, corporations that operate in California face a combined local and federal tax rate higher than that of any other country. (Japan is a distant second.)
In case you wondered, California’s sales tax is high, too. Most places in California, the combined city and state sales tax rate is more than 8 percent.
California is in crisis because state spending is so high that even those hefty taxes aren’t enough to balance the budget.
If leftist deadbeats like yourself, Countervail, actually paid your fair share instead of constantly trying to soak the rich, California would have a far more stable income stream. But you and your fellow moochers demand that other people pay so that you don’t have to work or earn your housing, health care, and spending money, and in a recession, those people can’t pay as much. But as expected, instead of being willing to limit his welfare checks and start paying his own expenses, the whining brat Countervail looks for new ways to tax productive people.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 22, 2009 @ 2:21 am - October 22, 2009