Take a look at who was (and wasn’t) invited to yesterday’s “jobs summit” and then try to tell me that this administration is taking our crushing unemployment rate seriously.
Invited:
-SEIU President Andy Stern
-Anna Burger, also from the SEIU
-United Steel Workers Union Prez
-Teacher’s Union
-Various donors
Are you kidding me? Was this a DNC fundraising dinner or a jobs summit?
Not Invited:
-U.S. Chamber of Commerce
-National Federation of Independent Businesses
-Small business owners
Rep. John Boehner, the former President of a small business in Ohio, points out that nobody in the White House has ever created a job.
Newt Gingrich held a rival “Real Jobs Summit” in Mississippi in which three common sense measures were promoted:
-tax cuts
-deregulation
-a reduction in frivolous litigation
News just broke that the jobless rate for November has fallen to 10%, with job losses totaling 11,000 rather than Wall Street’s 130,000 projection. This is fantastic news, but doesn’t diminish the fact that we need to keep the pressure on our representatives in DC to continue exploring serious solutions. This isn’t the time to use a so-called “jobs summit” as a forum for repaying campaign donors and buttering up union bosses, while punishing those who oppose measures like cap and tax. This much unemployment is a tragedy and the President should be picking the brains of the most successful, results-oriented business minds our country has to offer rather than playing politics with our livelihoods.
More:
-November jobless rate falls to 10%!
-Here’s the information on Newt’s jobs summit.
