Romney Won't Create 500,000 New Jobs

Posted on May 7, 2012 at 9:38 am by Bob Cesca

Krugman:

Incidentally, since Romney is proposing a complete return to Bush economic policies, it might be interesting to note the average rate of job creation during Bush’s first 7 years in the White House — that is, his record even if you ignore the catastrophe at the end. And that average monthly rate, from the BLS, was … drum roll … 66,000.

I’m actually kind of surprised Romney didn’t go all the way and promise one meeeeeellion new jobs per month.

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  • Lazarus Durden

    This is really the only appropriate response to Mitt’s claim he can create 500K jobs a month with the Bush policies:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0

  • ElayneB

    Don’t forget we’re all getting ponies too.

    • stacib23

      Ah ha, another uninformed voter – they’re tri-striped UNICORNS, not PONIES. :-)

      • Brutlyhonest

        What? Not dressage horses?

  • muselet

    I’m actually kind of surprised Romney didn’t go all the way and promise one meeeeeellion new jobs per month.

    He didn’t want to exaggerate. That would be unpresidential.

    –alopecia

  • JMAshby

    A million jobs isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion jobs.

    • mrbrink

      That reminded me that just last night I was reading about how artist David Choe took stock, rather than a few thousand bucks in commission for tagging up the Facebook office walls, and how his Facebook stock is now worth $200 million. But one thing lead to another, and I was reading about Sean Parker and how he solicited Peter Thiel to get in on the ground floor of Facebook. Thiel is an interesting dude. Not only was he a money man for Facebook early on, but he co-founded Paypal, contributed the maximum to Meg Whitman’s campaign in California, funded James O’Keefe’s rise to stupidity, he also started “Endorse Liberty Super Pac,” a Ron Paul super pac. And he’s gay. Weird, because he’s written about multiculturalism in a negative light, and in a writing in 2009, said: “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.”

      Fuuuuck off, pissy pants.

      Oh, and evidently, he’s a member of “the Steering Committee of The Bilderberg Group.” Ha.

      I found all this fascinating on several levels, not expecting to give a shit enough about anything other than the Choe artwork to follow the Wiki wormhole was the first, but finding dumb politics in strange places reminded me that great wealth and good business sense isn’t a proper apology for poor politics.