Jay Nixon better start creating jobs, fast
Yael T. AbouhalkahMissouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence is rejoicing today: Missouri had the third highest number of job losses from June of 2011 to this June, federal officials say.
Now Spence can hit incumbent Democrat Jay Nixon hard on a favorite topic: Nixon can’t create jobs.
The lost nonfarm jobs totaled 4,100, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and this story.
But wait.
Nixon and state Democratic officials have had to deal with Spence and his attack ads on this before.
Basically, Nixon and his supporters claim jobs are increasing in the state, but it takes some time for the year-to-year numbers to catch up.
Spence doesn’t care about that, of course. He’ll use the latest numbers to bash Nixon, who will say everything is going to turn out in the end.
Just wait.
Sound familiar.
William R. Nelson
9 months, 1 week ago“Jay Nixon better start creating jobs, fast.”
That whole premise is flawed. Government doesn’t created jobs. And if Spence embraces that premise, he is just as wrong.
Unless one considers the likes of KC’s downtown apartment vampires sucking off the public teet ‘job creation.’
All government can do is create a friendly atmosphere conducive to new or expanding private business.
But that’s tough for any state to achieve when it’s burdened with repressive policies, punitive regulations and increased taxes from our political overlords in D.C.
Or when your fellow Missourians can vote on how much you pay the guy or gal who sweeps your floor or stocks your shelves.
That breeds fear and uncertainty, which paralyzes business and strangles jobs.
George Hunsucker
Northland
9 months, 1 week agoJust look at the right-to-work states’ job growth as contrasted to stuck-in-the-union-mold MO.
I am truly sorry for those people looking for jobs that libs keep from them by protecting their union buddies…..
Kent Mueller
9 months, 1 week agoYael, do you buy Nixon’s argument that it takes a while for increases to show in annual numbers? Yeah, it does take a while, that “while” is less than a year. How long has Nixon been governor?
For that phenomena to be true, job numbers had to decrease from where they were a year ago. But now there are increases in jobs, but not enough to get us back to where we were a year ago. Hence, he is adding jobs, but they don’t show up in the annual numbers yet.
Wasn’t Nixon governor before a year ago?