Georgia’s jobless rate rises to 9.9 percent in June
Georgia’s unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in June from a revised 9.8 percent in May, the state labor department said Thursday.
The state’s jobless rate has barely improved from a year ago, when it was 10 percent.
“The unemployment rate inched up slightly because of normal seasonal factors, primarily involving the end of the school year,” state Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said in a statement. “Non-contract school workers, such as bus drivers, lunchroom and janitorial workers, are usually laid-off during the summer school break. Also, new graduates began searching for jobs and are counted as unemployed while doing so.”
The loss of 12,400 seasonal jobs in state and local public school systems accounted for the bulk of the 14,600 payroll jobs lost throughout the state, the labor department said. There were 3,818,600 jobs in June — down four-tenths of a percentage point from May.
On the positive side, there were increases of 2,900 construction jobs and 2,400 in the service industries, the labor department said.
While still very high, the number of long-term unemployed workers declined for the fourth consecutive month. There were 250,500 Georgians out of work for at least 27 weeks — down five-tenths of a percentage point from May. But, the number of long-term unemployed remains 8.9 percent higher than in June of last year.
The long-term unemployed now account for 53.6 percent of Georgia’s 467,454 jobless workers, the labor department said.
Also, the recent trend of an increase in first-time claims for unemployment insurance benefits continued in June. There were 58,981 initial claims — up 7.5 percent from May.
Most of the first-time claims were in manufacturing and business services, which includes temporary employment agencies.
On the positive side, there was a decline in initial claims of 9 percent from June of last year.
June marked the 47th consecutive month Georgia has exceeded the national unemployment rate, which is currently 9.2 percent.
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Fletch
July 21st, 2011
9:10 am
Samantha – “I know one thing for sure…people need to STOP blaming President Obama for what’s going on….We had Bush in office for 8 very long years.”
True, but agian we are talking about Georgia here. While I understand the sentiment, it’s just as misplaced. Blame Obama, Bush etc…. for everything that can be controlled by the Federal Government, and the National UE rate, but Presidential influence has little to no bearing on how the individual states are run. If your unhappy with the state of affairs in Georgia, you need look no further than the representatives IN the state of Georgia.
RWL77
July 21st, 2011
9:18 am
I use to love living in Atlanta, but after being laid off, and finishing Grad school at Georgia Tech, I couldn’t find a job. I move home to Wisconsin and find a good job with in three months. I hope things turn around in Georgia soon! I have friends who are still looking!
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
9:22 am
Here red, just for you I have the compiled list of all FIFTY states with the unemployemnt numbers as of last month. Why don’t you take a look at it and maybe you can plan a summer a trip to one of the low UE states for the Obama day:
1 NORTH DAKOTA 3.2
2 NEBRASKA 4.1
3 NEW HAMPSHIRE 4.8
3 SOUTH DAKOTA 4.8
5 OKLAHOMA 5.3
6 VERMONT 5.4
7 HAWAII 6.0
7 IOWA 6.0
7 VIRGINIA 6.0
7 WYOMING 6.0
11 KANSAS 6.6
11 MINNESOTA 6.6
13 MARYLAND 6.8
14 NEW MEXICO 6.9
15 MONTANA 7.3
15 UTAH 7.3
17 ALASKA 7.4
17 PENNSYLVANIA 7.4
17 WISCONSIN 7.4
20 MASSACHUSETTS 7.6
21 MAINE 7.7
22 ARKANSAS 7.8
23 NEW YORK 7.9
24 DELAWARE 8.0
24 TEXAS 8.0
26 INDIANA 8.2
26 LOUISIANA 8.2
28 OHIO 8.6
28 WEST VIRGINIA 8.6
30 COLORADO 8.7
31 ILLINOIS 8.9
31 MISSOURI 8.9
33 ARIZONA 9.1
33 CONNECTICUT 9.1
33 WASHINGTON 9.1
36 OREGON 9.3
37 IDAHO 9.4
37 NEW JERSEY 9.4
39 ALABAMA 9.6
40 NORTH CAROLINA 9.7
40 TENNESSEE 9.7
42 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 9.8
42 GEORGIA 9.8
42 KENTUCKY 9.8
45 SOUTH CAROLINA 10.0
46 MICHIGAN 10.3
46 MISSISSIPPI 10.3
48 FLORIDA 10.6
49 RHODE ISLAND 10.9
50 CALIFORNIA 11.7
51 NEVADA 12.1
Steve from GA
July 21st, 2011
9:23 am
There is alot of talk about the president and members of congress who have nothing to do with GA Maybe its time we hold our governor, members of congress, and local leaders accountable which have been solidly Republican for years… Hows that supply side working out?
James
July 21st, 2011
9:27 am
I agree that we can’t totally blame Obama or Bush 43 or Clinton for that matter; these states have low unemployment in part because of good decision-making and because their banks didn’t get caught up in the sub-prime mortgage Ponzi scheme. Again, if unemployment is so low, what is the compelling reason why people are not migrating “en masse” to these states to look for work?
Well Duh
July 21st, 2011
9:36 am
Anyone notice that it is government jobs that are being shed, while private sector is holding up? You cons can’t be clamoring for smaller government and then upset when the unemployment rates go up! Your chickens are coming home to roost and America sees through it.
Son in Law
July 21st, 2011
9:39 am
James. That’s my point. If you knew Mr. Deal, you could be Director of something, even without qualifications, you know, like his son in law? Republicans do a far better job of taking care of their own-the heck with everybody else-so, if you have complaints about access to jobs, point a finger at the people who control the job market, the Republicans. Conservatives are called conversative for a reason. Being a Conservative means NO CHANGE because the current situation benefits you already. so, why change a system that benefits you? But if the current system does not benefit you, and you continue to vote for conservatives, Republicans, then get happy with not being invited to the party. It’s really baffling that some many people consistently vote against their own best interest by voting for the handful of people who don’t want any change in who has an opportunity to make a better life for themselves. But just look at who Georgia has elected as gov, US senators, state reps, etc.–People who do not want to see the status quo changed. As i recall, the economy was pretty good with Barnes as gov and Clinton as pres. Take an honest look at the Perdue years and the W Bush years. no comparison. by the end of Obama’s second term, yes he will be re-elected in a landslide, the Fox-minded crowd will be smaller than now.
Rick Perry? Romney? Bachmann? PALIN? It would be funny if they weren’t real people.
tex101
July 21st, 2011
9:41 am
HB 87 not going so well Nathan?
Son in Law
July 21st, 2011
9:42 am
who wants to live in North Dakota and work for an oilfield mud company anyway?
James
July 21st, 2011
9:42 am
Department of Agriculture still has over 100,000 federal employees serving about 1 million farmers, as opposed to 500 employees at the turn of the last century serving around 10 million farmers. Which government jobs are being shed? Maybe at the city and county level, but I’m just not seeing it in DC.
ADD
July 21st, 2011
9:43 am
I am presently unemployed – I received an invitation to apply for a Mortgage Underwriting Manager job, which is geographically infeasible due to the job location being in another state and I cannot sell my house here. But the utter irony is – The job would be managing 300 newly hired employees who would be reviewing loan applications for mortgage modifications and bailouts. GUESS WHERE THE 300 NEW EMPLOYEES WOULD BE LOCATED – INDIA!!!! That’s right, the jobs being created, to review loan modification applications, ARE BEING CREATED OFFSHORE!!!! Can you see the irony of the situation?
Son in Law
July 21st, 2011
9:45 am
it is kinda funny that the elected officials who complain about the government run for office and hope to work for the government for life, once elected. no, not funny. hypocritical.
James
July 21st, 2011
9:46 am
ADD…nothing more than what happened with the textile industry in the Southeastern U.S. 20 years ago…it’s a no-win situation.
ADD
July 21st, 2011
9:47 am
Too many folks use their disdain for Obama as a reason for the high unemployment rate in GA, which is absurd. It’s easier for them to point a finger at a Democrat than to look for the REAL reasons the unloyment rate is high here in GA – Much higher than many other states. Hows careful thought and insightful reasoning working for ya? Evidently not very well…
Average American
July 21st, 2011
9:49 am
To all of the idiots living in the past – Clinton’s “balanced budget” had quite a lot to do with a very fiscally conservative Republican Congress. If you ignorantly call that Clinton’s you need a lesson in government. While Clinton does deserve some credit, you are a fool for giving him the credit solely. So let’s move on past this whole thing. Delusion can be cured.
As for unemployment being pinned on Bush, I remind you what the rate was when Obama was elected. I also remind you that Obama said if his plan was not enacted, unemployment would go to 9%. If it were enacted, it would only go no higher than 8%. Well we passed his plan and it went to 10%. Now it is still above 9%. So please tell me how this is Bush’s fault? Again a little lesson in government, the Dems did nothing to stop Bush’s so called nefarious plan to tank the economy. Keep in mind they won control of Congress in 2006. Obama himself was in that Congress mind you. Instead of skipping votes, where was his leadership?
Back to the point – this is the present. This is Obama’s economy. His own staff says he now owns it. It is HIS policies now dictating how the ship is steered. It was his stimulus and bail outs that were supposed to right the ship. Blame Bush all you want but as of now, this is all Obama and right now it is not working. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. Democrats had their chance in both Executive and Legislative Branches to right it and as of now, it is not right. Obama has shored up Wall Street fat cats while average Americans are making less and many still unemployed or underemployed.
John Boehner
July 21st, 2011
9:50 am
February 15, 2011, 1:00 PM ET.
Boehner: ‘So Be It’ If Federal Workers Are Laid Off.
By Patrick O’Connor
House Speaker John Boehner expressed little sympathy Tuesday for federal workers who lose their jobs as the result of Republican budget cutting.
“In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs,” Mr. Boehner told reporters Tuesday morning during a press conference in the lobby of the Republican National Committee, according to various news outlets. “If some of those jobs are lost, so be it. We’re broke.”
Republicans in the House are considering legislation on the floor this week that seeks to slash $62 billion from the federal budget by the end of September. Those reductions – which face significant resistance in the Democratically controlled Senate – would result in drastic reductions at just about every federal agency.
Republicans campaigned on the promise to cut federal spending in the run-up to the 2010 election. That pledge, if enacted, will inevitably result in job losses at the federal and state level. But Mr. Boehner’s “so be it” line marks a coarse reversal from his more sympathetic “Where are the jobs?” mantra from the last election.
The associations that represent government workers are scrambling to minimize the pain as cost-cutting takes hold in Washington.
Joe Beaudoin, president of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, greeted the president’s budget on Monday with trepidation – and the president’s budget, which calls for a two-year pay freeze on federal workers, is downright rosy for government workers compared with the plan Republicans have proposed.
“America’s federal workforce understands the importance of fiscal responsibility – federal employees are already doing their part to reduce the deficit by undergoing a two-year pay freeze,” Mr. Beaudoin said Monday in response to Mr. Obama’s budget. “On behalf of the 4.6 million active and retired federal workers, we must make sure that federal employees who are doing their jobs for our country don’t get caught unfairly in the middle of these consequences.”
U Huh
July 21st, 2011
9:52 am
Fletch, the top six states on your chart don’t even add up in population to Georgia. Georgia-9,687,653. The top six-9,033,327.
Dekalb county has more people, 691,893, than North Dakota, 672,591. Most of the folks in ND are farmers anyhow. I know this becasue my wife is from ND and I have to go there every year to visit.
Comparing those States to Georgia, Florida, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, etc. is poor statistical analysis.
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
9:53 am
Guess what guys? I know how to copy and paste! Not sure why I cannot go beyond copying and pasting the same thing over and over. You will have to forgive me but my knowledge impedes my ability to formulate an argument on the subject. I don’t know much about economics but somehow think that listing all of the states will bolster the image of Obama. Because we all know North Dakota is an economic powerhouse and Obama has done so much to help the economy there.
U Huh
July 21st, 2011
9:54 am
Enter your comments here
Not quite truthful James
July 21st, 2011
9:54 am
James
July 21st, 2011
9:42 am
Politifact, a neat service of the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald:
Using 105,000 total USDA employees and the BLS figure of 1.2 million farmers and farm workers — you get a ratio of 1 employee for every 11.4 farmers.
If you exclude Forest Service employees (who have very little to do with farming) in the same calculation, there remains 1 USDA employee for every 17.6 farmers.
But if you count just the Farm Service Agency, the main agency that works with farmers, the ratio becomes 1 Farm Service Agency employee for every 235 farmers under the BLS numbers or 1 employee for every 510 farmers under using the Department of Commerce figure [Senator] LeMieux cited or 1 employee for every 373 farmers using the other Commerce figure Crutchfield provided.
If you use LeMieux’s 2.6 million figure and count all USDA employees, the ratio is about 1 employee for every 25 farmers.
ADD
July 21st, 2011
9:58 am
How’s all that deregulation, smaller government, trickle down economics and tax cuts for the upper tier stuff working for ya?
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
9:58 am
James – “Again, if unemployment is so low, what is the compelling reason why people are not migrating “en masse” to these states to look for work?”
I’m going to guess that they could have family issues, the inability to move due to economic reasons, possibly unable to sell their home, lack of transprtation, etc….. I don’t know for sure. ND is one of many states with lower unemployment than Georgia. I have a very good friend who is the Department Chair for the Mechanical Engineering school at NDSU in Fargo. He loves living in ND (except for the annual flooding) and praises the state leaders for effective mangagement of the resources, budget and commerce. I feel the same way about Montana, even though the UE number is higher than ND, the leadership has been the driving force in keeping the state solvent and providing an environment that promotes opportunity for those who seek it.
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:01 am
Average American – “Back to the point – this is the present. This is Obama’s economy.”
Back to the point at present, the article was exclusively about the unemployment rate in GEORGIA. Last I looked, Obama has never lived in or held office in the state of GEORGIA.
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:08 am
U huh – “Comparing those States to Georgia, Florida, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, etc. is poor statistical analysis.”
I wasn’t comparing ND to all of those states. And as a point of fact, even New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois AND Ohio have a lower UE rate than Georgia despite being larger in population. I suppose that they will be holding Obama parades as well. Again, you want to know why the UE rate is higher in Georgia, go ask the people that run Georgia.
Average American
July 21st, 2011
10:13 am
Fletch do you realize that Georgia’s economy is tied to the national economy? It is one of the 50 states you know. We are all tied together. I hate to break that news to you but what happens in DC does have an effect on all states. Georgia became the headquarters for many companies around the country. Living conditions, large airport, good tax base, good schools in the suburbs provided a ‘paradise’ of sorts for many companies to relocate here. If Georgia was so bad, why did this happen? As someone else has pointed out before, I notice quite a few license plates from all over the country – that list of states you keep spouting off. Again, if Georgia were so bad why would people AND companies all move here? When the NATIONAL economy tanked many of these businesses headquartered here (none of which are in ND mind you) began layoffs. Simple mathematics indicates when larger companies begin greater layoffs, the unemployment rate goes up. Trying to compare GA to many of those states you list shows you have NO grasp on economics and how the US economy works. You can keep your talking points. But they just do not add up.
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:14 am
Hijack Fletch – “Guess what guys? I know how to copy and paste! Not sure why I cannot go beyond copying and pasting the same thing over and over. You will have to forgive me but my knowledge impedes my ability to formulate an argument on the subject. I don’t know much about economics but somehow think that listing all of the states will bolster the image of Obama. Because we all know North Dakota is an economic powerhouse and Obama has done so much to help the economy there.”
I haven’t copied and pasted the same thing over and over, and my question remains the same. If you blame Obama for the high UE in Georgia, why aren’t you giving him credit for lower UE in many other states, including ones where the population exceeds that of Georgia?
where the players play
July 21st, 2011
10:19 am
I wish we were in the 1800s when you had to have 9 kids to work on the farm and there was a 20 percent chance of dying during child birth. The good ole days. Liberals are blood sucking socialist parasites and conservatives are wal mart shopping bible thumping freedom hating dbags. I think Ill go commit sepaku like a ninja. I am dumber for reader all of your posts. Don’t you people have jobs. Now i’m going to go get my envitro for my wife because we decide to wait until we were 35 to have kids because we are responsible white yuppies. It tricks her body into thinking she is a black teenager and now we get to have a retarded kid. Thanks America. As long as black democrats from the inner city and social conservative Republicans can come together on keeping booze sales outlawed on Sunday I think we will progress as society. That’s reaching across the isle. Also I hope the 25k I paid in taxes helps pay for the mexican kids with strep throat at the emergency room at Grady. Also if you watch American Idol or keep up with Casey Anthony please do yourself a favor and end your life. Do gay small business owners want to pay less taxes or have the right to get married. What a decision.
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:20 am
Average American – “Again, if Georgia were so bad why would people AND companies all move here?”
I never said that Georgia was bad. As a point of fact I already indicated that we have several businesses in Georgia. I have a house in Georgia, I’m usually in Atlanta when not traveling to our other business interests (hence my posting from Montana) we operate a PEO, Air Charter, and Liquor Distribution in Georgia. Never once did I say that Georgia was bad. I like the climate, the airport, the location to other great cities in the Southeast etc… My argument has been that Georgias unemployment rate cannot be realistically leveled soley at Obama as some other posters have indicated.
The Other Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:26 am
Because genius the unemployment rate for ND has been relatively the same since at least 1990 for one. I tell you what. Go to Google and pull up a wonderful tool they have that compares states’ unemployment rates over the past few decades. It is quite amazing to see that the ratio increase for all states is relatively the same. So feel free to take a snapshot shoddy analysis of this all you want. But everyone in the nation is equally suffering on high unemployment that your guy claimed would not go above 8 nationally if his genius plan was passed. Something else I want you to notice – note the upticks in southern states while northern states get these downticks. It’s called population shifts for the APS students out there. When you have these people from up north coming down south – yes than means GA again for the APS alumni – you will see the uptick in unemployment numbers for southern states and downticks in northern states. Methinks Fletch is using the Contessa Brewer logic on economics.
James
July 21st, 2011
10:31 am
You can’t just count the Farm Service Agency in that calculation because they are a primary, but not the sole USDA agency that works with farmers. You also have to calculate workers with Extension (per the Smith-Lever Act of 1914) and NCRS.
Red
July 21st, 2011
10:35 am
Fletch – you are really just missing the point. All of those companies others are mentioning are definitely multi-national. The ones still here are hinging on Obama policies. Gulfstream for instance is one of those companies producing the “evil” corporate jets. Obama puts Georgians out of work with talk of the higher taxes on these jets.
You just fail to grasp how these companies that have reaches far beyond Georgia are suffering because of a lack of stimulating the economy and/or policies that either threaten or just flat out kill growth. Add to the fact that the Census itself proves more and more people are coming here looking for work. These people are unemployed – this means they are ADDING to the currently unemployed. I was unemployed for part of ‘09. I remember talking with many at the DoL office and how many had only been in GA for a few months because they thought their chances of getting a job were better here.
Obama’s policies do in fact have a direct bearing on the numbers here. If you think differently you are denying the facts. I would love to hear what exactly you think the Republicans in GA are to blame for the number.
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:36 am
The Other Fletch – “But everyone in the nation is equally suffering on high unemployment that your guy claimed would not go above 8 nationally if his genius plan was passed.”
Hey genius, I established early on that I’m not a fan of Obama, I didn’t vote for Obama,(actually the last time I voted was when I helped put GW in office the first time),your calling him “my guy” has no basis in fact. Not sure why the APS thing keeps coming up since I also established in my earlier posts that all my education from K through Graduate school was done in Utah. My argument all along has been against the idiotic statement that Georgias UE rate is 100% Obamas fault. While I don’t like the guy, I’m not going to make asinine comments laying Georgias problems on his shoulders.
James
July 21st, 2011
10:42 am
Of the 27 million businesses in this country, less than 10,000 of them are traded on any stock exchange…and they are sitting on massive amounts of capital? Why? Because…even in the Midwest, big companies are looking at how OVERALL POLICIES are going to affect them in the short and long term. Translation: Lots of hiring? Not necessarily. Yes you may have an NCR move here and there, but this is still, at best a very real, political chess game.
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:45 am
Red – “I would love to hear what exactly you think the Republicans in GA are to blame for the number.”
You’ll be waiting for a while I’m afraid. Personally, I hold both the Left and the Right responsible for the failed policies and extreme spending over the last 30 years. My argument has been, and continues to be that if Obama is responsible for the UE in Georgia than he is responsible for the low UE in other states as well. Since the low UE cannot be to Obamas credit, the high UE cannot be his fault. It is a combination of policies put forth by both sides at the Federal and State level that influences the outcome. Unlike many, I haven’t taken a partisan stance for EITHER side.
Personally, my partners and I don’t base our decisions on who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania, never have, never will. The last time I let a sitting POTUS affect my destiny is when HW Bush killed the ICBM program in favor of continuing the funding of the Minute Man II defense program. Since then, I’ve contolled my own destiny and never looked back.
The Other Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:46 am
Who is saying this is 100% Obama? Besides his cronies saying that he owns the economy? But I do love your logic that if Obama hasn’t lived in a state he cannot be blamed for anything wrong there. He must be President of IL, DC, HI, NY, CA, and MA. The other 52 don’t count.
ADD
July 21st, 2011
10:49 am
Enter your comments here
Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:51 am
The Other Fletch – “He must be President of IL, DC, HI, NY, CA, and MA. The other 52 don’t count.’
I never said that either. Go back and read the 1st 4 posts from this morning and tell me if you think they are objective. Gott go, Heading up to Opheim today to look at some Angus stock, that is unless Obama has ruined them first. Later
Average American
July 21st, 2011
10:53 am
Fletch I would not say TX, IL, NY, etc. have “low” unemployment rates. If you think 8-9% is low you need help. While your metric is to just say they are lower than GA therefore better is absurd. Again, go look at the Google comparison. The overall comparison is that most states pretty much suffered equally by a percentage ratio. Other factors do come into play. The population shift does need to be included and addressed. If you look at the trend, all of these states were very slowly going down but have now either stalled or are going back up. The states you mention as ‘good’ or ‘low’ are stalling and/or going back up just as GA is. So with a trend of ALL of these states going up are you still going to deny this is not a national policy issue?
The Other Fletch
July 21st, 2011
10:54 am
Still did not get an answer to my question on who is 100% blaming Obama….
Fletch You Are Wasting Your Time
July 21st, 2011
11:21 am
The conservatives that haunt these boards are incapable of looking at the state house or governor’s mansion as the cause because they actually voted for those people. If those people are the problem then that means that they made a mistake in voting for those people.
The number one rule of being a good Republican is to always blame someone else and never admit even the possibility that you may have made an error. As long as you stick to that rule you can feel good and spend your days in the comment section talking about how the liberal idiots and commies in DC are ruining the country while outside your house it all burns to the ground.
The Other Fletch
July 21st, 2011
11:27 am
FYAWYT would you care to point out specifics as to how the governor’s mansion is to blame for the rate? The number one rule of being a liberal is to deflect back to the other side and never give substance to your own argument. It’s not difficult to troll boards and deflect back to the other side. This is why liberals do this so much on the message boards. They will defend Obama to the death but never actually list accomplishments or specifics on where they other side is wrong. Deal is the antichrist but they will never tell you why.
Fletch You Are Wasting Your Time
July 21st, 2011
11:38 am
I think I read an article just a little while ago that said Georgia has had above average unemployment for the last 49 moths. Somewhere else I read that Georgia leads the nation in bank failures. I also read, in that same place, that Georgia ranks 47th in High School graduation rates. (Guess what, I read those right here in the AJC).
Now, which bodies run Georgia? The state house and the governor’s mansion.
If you don’t put the responsibility for these numbers in the laps of the people whose job it is to actually run the state, you can blame the tooth fairy for all I care.
Just a thought Fletch
July 21st, 2011
11:50 am
Fletch – Although Obama isn’t in charge of the states unemployment his policies do affect the unemployment on both a national and state basis. If you’ve listened to the Chamber of Commerce, small business (which creates 70% of all jobs) are scared to death to hire anyone because of Obama’s policies and how much it will cost them as small business owners. Please take some time to get a better understanding of how Obama’s policies affect all businesses
.
Hilarious
July 21st, 2011
11:56 am
Just a thought Fletch…
1. Presidential policy affects national unemployment. Sounds about right. Here, take a look at this chart, then tell me what you think Obama’s policy has affected employment in the US since taking office. Here, take a look.
http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4bb614577f8b9a1667ae0100/chart-020510-update.gif
2. If you think the Chamber of Commerce isn’t a Republican institution, you’re naive.
3. You’re still here trying to blame Obama, even though you know that Georgia REPUBLICANS are the ones who should be held accountable for all of the negative statistics that can be cited. So, your agenda is to deflect blame from the Republicans who you must have voted for, towards a Democratic president.
Is anyone on this board supposed to consider your views objective? Seriously?
The Other Fletch
July 21st, 2011
12:02 pm
FYAWYT you do know other states have the same period of high unemployment right? Maybe you should venture around in research to see other states have the same issue. But I guess GA Republicans have a pretty far reach. Banks are federally regulated. Not sure how you can pin all of these failures on a governor. And yes education in GA stinks. But unfortunately these numbers were the same under Democrats in charge of education as well. I guess Deal and Perdue can be blamed for cheating teachers? Who controls education? Unions. Look at schools that are succeeding in GA. Many “red” counties are doing well while “blue” counties are not. By your logic I guess we should go even further and blame Democrats for education failures there.
The Other Fletch
July 21st, 2011
12:05 pm
Hilarious can you give me specifics to back up this claim? “even though you know that Georgia REPUBLICANS are the ones who should be held accountable for all of the negative statistics that can be cited” Please tell me how they are to blame and how they should be held accountable.
Fletch You Are Wasting Your Time
July 21st, 2011
12:10 pm
It’s always someone else’s fault.
dmb
July 21st, 2011
12:13 pm
Georgia and Deal are too busy with pushing a HATE agenda (gays, mexicans, women, blacks) to do anything real about bring in industry. This state needs to get its head outta it’s a## and tell radical religious freaks where to keep their doctrine.. in the church.. not in government…
If anyone paid attention...
July 21st, 2011
12:17 pm
then you would know that it is demand that is causing the companies to be sitting on their cash. If the companies knew for sure that demand was increasing, they would be hiring to increase supply regardless of the political uncertainties. And what is so different for the business community from the Bush years? Has Obama socialized any US industry like some of you on here like to claim? Is it the scary Obamacare? For most of the 27 million business, Health Care reform won’t affect them at all. It is the cutbacks by the consumer, and resulting uncertainty in demand that is affecting hiring. And yes I have a degree in economics.
Hilarious
July 21st, 2011
12:18 pm
It’s pretty easy on how they can be held accountable.
It’s called voting the bums out.
So, let me ask you, since you apparently hold all the secrets and are waiting to prove me wrong with anything I say, since I’m obviously not a Republican.
Who is to blame, if not the elected leaders of the state?
Oh, thats right, I almost forgot. The black Democrat is to blame. He is, after all, evil. Oh, and he probably hates America too, which of course follows being a Democrat.
Did I get your reasoning down pat?