Gov. Corbett found to be in contempt of jobs
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Gov. Corbett found to be in contempt of jobs
Gov. Corbett sang with the group Up With People stood on a stage with a (bleep)load of white people today, and his message was: Release the crackin'...of ethane. Never mind that the Shell ethane-cracker plant in the western-Pa.-as-it-gets town of Monoca, Pa. will only create 400 actual on-site jobs in return for its !.7 billion tax credit bonanza, and an unknown number of indirect jobs -- unknown because his administration relied solely on job estimates by a Shell-funded group.
One thing that Corbett can't cover up -- as much as he'd like to -- is that the man who was elected governor on a "jobs, jobs, jobs" promise has destroyed many more jobs that he would create out there in Beaver County.
On purpose.
Pennsylvania, for example, has shed 5,400 government jobs this year, and many school districts and social service agencies are contemplating more layoffs. “We have slipped to the middle of the pack in terms of job growth,” said Mark Price, a labor economist at the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center. “And that was driven mainly by the fact that we lost so many jobs in the public sector.”
Public workers became a point of contention in the presidential campaign recently when Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, criticized President Obama for wanting to increase the number of government employees through stimulus measures. “He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers,” Mr. Romney said, adding: “It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
We don't really need more of this help, thank you. Early on the recession, Pennsylvania was actually faring better than its neighbors, and then Gov. Corbett showed up with his job crushing policies. Now we've "slipped to the middle of the pack." And he's just getting started. Wait until he brings our efficiencies above average.
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It has caught up to it. UE has bene over 10% for three years now. They run constant budget deficits that have t be plugged via emergency legislation.— RG- http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/opinion/bennett-california-budget/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/california-facing-higher-16-billion-shortfall-213905732--finance.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303640104577440720911870512.html
Murry, I understand your resentment with me calling you an idiot and all, but what else should I call you? Seriously...you're actually trying to argue that CA is better shape than NJ or PA. The reality is simple, CA is the poster child of how to not run a state and now the progressive chickens are coming home to roost.
You're not smart, murry, as evidenced yet again by your latest argument.— bp-philly 2.0 - It must be nice to just throw out only 400 jobs - in rural PA no less. Let's see, those 400 have to eat right? Local foodies get paid. Those 400 need clothes / uniforms right? Local merchants get paid. Those 400 need tools, equipment and such? Again, local merchants get paid. Those 400 most have families right? It seems to me that 400 paying jobs is a significant number for the folks in that town - and good for them.
Oh how arrogant can we be when we claim a superior position?— phillyjeffsr - My resentment is that you're a total moron, and yet you're convinced you have anything to say. For example, we're talking about that state of CA, and you think to post about a municipality within California. And you expect me to not think you anything but an unbelievable dolt. I dont' know what this "in better shape" you are referring to is. My point was to defend against the incessant argument that cutting spending and employment is gonna eventually lead to much lower UE and positive GDP growth -- eventually -- is nonsense. The rate of change is clear --- as I've clearly shown. "The progressive chickens are coming home to roost" -- yet the yield doesn't show it. But what do millions of investors know? We should pay attention to what bp has to say -- bp who can't answer a Econ 101 question.— Murrayman
- Google: Progressive failure state unemployment increase chickens come home to roost". Look I found an article! I knew my bias was correct! What's that, there may be conflicting information? Nah, I'll ignore that for now.— Murrayman
- "CA is the poster child of how to not run a state and now the progressive chickens are coming home to roost." . . . . . . It's the state that passed Prop 13 in the 70s, simply because its high court required rich school districts to share property tax revenue with poorer ones to comply with the equal protection clause, the typical us vs them mentality. 'If we have to share, then we're not going to tax according to actual land value, but cap raises at 2% annually.' As a result, California schools, once the best in the country under prior progressive leadership (which made California the leader in innovation and technology, with the finest public universities in the world) fell to almost dead last in quality, requiring the State to pick up the tab in the 80s, and that's only part of the decline caused by this so-called tax revolt.
— montani semper liberi - "My point was to defend against the incessant argument that cutting spending and employment is gonna eventually lead to much lower UE and positive GDP growth -- eventually -- is nonsense."
So, once again you are arguing against a strawman. Cutting spending is meant to get budgets under control and to bring spending in line with revenue.
For all the names you tooss around, your only solution is to continuously spend more. Yet you are willfully blind to the fact that we've been spending more at all levels for 4 decades now. It hasn't produced the growth needed to pay off the accumulated debt, and now nor will it ever.— RG - "It's the state that passed Prop 13 in the 70s"
There's your democracy at work.— RG - California's April auction still paid a premium over top rated bonds.— RG
- "My point was to defend against the incessant argument that cutting spending and employment is gonna eventually lead to much lower UE and positive GDP growth -- eventually -- is nonsense."
Yet the state's budget is an absolute trainwreck, AT BEST, municipalities are declaring bankruptcy, taxes have increased while revenues have decreased, and their UE (as of May 2012 stats) is # 49 of 51 (which includes DC). And you call me a moron? Take a long look in the mirror, you imbecile!— bp-philly 2.0 - @ClarkU, I bow to your obsequious tautology. Keep up the good work, you continue to show risible those on the left are.— junethe4th
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