Democrats Give Working Families the Silent Treatment

September 8, 2012

Democrats Give Working Families the Silent Treatment

Rather Than Admit Their Policies Have Led to Economic Failure, Democrats Refuse to Even Mention ObamaCare or the Failed Stimulus

Disappointing jobs numbers released Friday are yet another reminder of the economic misery working families are living in thanks to the failure of Democrat policies.
Democrats are desperately trying to shift attention away from their failures by refusing to even mention ObamaCare or their failed stimulus in public.
After four years of failure, America’s working families are wondering what else Democrats might have in store for them. All we know so far is that Democrats are pushing for more tax increases and other polices that destroy jobs.

Disappointing jobs numbers released Friday are yet another reminder of the economic misery working families are living in thanks to the failure of Democrat policies:

“NOWHERE TO HIDE IN A REPORT THAT PAINTED A PICTURE OF AN ANEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY”:(Ben White, “Jobs Report Challenges Obama’s Economic Message,” Politico, 9/7/2012)

ECONOMIST: “THERE HAS BEEN ESSENTIALLY NO PROGRESS IN REPAIRING THE LABOR MARKET AFTER THE RECENT DOWNTURN”: (James Pethokoukis, “Oh My, JP Morgan Economist Just Absolutely Destroys the August Jobs Report,” The American Enterprise Institute, 9/7/2012)

MORE: “IT’S HARD TO FIND ANY REDEEMING ASPECTS TO THIS JOBS REPORT. … THE ECONOMY APPEARS TO REMAIN STUCK IN THE MUD.” (James Pethokoukis, “Oh My, JP Morgan Economist Just Absolutely Destroys the August Jobs Report,” The American Enterprise Institute, 9/7/2012)

AP: “BLEAK REPORT” SHOWS ONLY 96,000 JOBS CREATED IN AUGUST: (Julie Pace and Donna Cassata, “Convention Over, Obama Hit With Weak Job Report,” Associated Press, 9/7/2012)

368,000 AMERICANS GAVE UP LOOKING FOR WORK IN THE OBAMA ECONOMY: (Jeff Cox, “New Jobs at 96,000, Missing Expectations; Rate Hits 8.1%,” CNBC, 9/7/2012)

23 MILLION UNEMPLOYED, UNDEREMPLOYED AND DISCOURAGED WORKERS: (“The Employment Situation—August 2012,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9/7/2012)

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE GOES DOWN TO 8.1%, “BUT ONLY BECAUSE MORE PEOPLE GAVE UP LOOKING FOR WORK”: (Julie Pace and Donna Cassata, “Convention Over, Obama Hit With Weak Job Report,” Associated Press, 9/7/2012)

UNEMPLOYMENT HAS ONLY BEEN ABOVE 8% FOR 43 STRAIGHT MONTHS UNDER OBAMA, MORE THAN 11 PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED: (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9/7/2012)

BROKEN PROMISE: WHITE HOUSE HAD PREDICTED UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD BE AT ABOUT 5.6% NOW IF WE PASSED THEIR STIMULUS: (James Pethokoukis, “The Awful, Awful August Jobs Report,” The American Enterprise Institute, 9/7/2012)

LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION AT 63.5%, THE LOWEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 30 YEARS: (Jeff Cox, “New Jobs at 96,000, Missing Expectations; Rate Hits 8.1%,” CNBC, 9/7/2012)

LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION FOR MEN IS AT THE LOWEST LEVEL SINCE BLS BEGAN COLLECTING DATA IN 1948:(Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9/7/2012)

IF LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION STAYED THE SAME AS LAST MONTH, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WOULD BE 8.4%: (Jennifer Rubin, “Awful August Jobs Report: The Beginning of the End of Obama?”, The Washington Post’s Right Turn Blog, 9/7/2012)

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WOULD BE 11.2% IF LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WAS THE SAME AS WHEN OBAMA TOOK OFFICE: (Tweet from James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, 9/7/2012)

Democrats are desperately trying to shift attention away from their failures by refusing to even mention ObamaCare or their failed stimulus in public:

POLITICO: “OBAMA DNC SPEECH ALL BUT IGNORES OBAMACARE”:(Joanne Kenen, “Obama DNC Speech All But Ignores ObamaCare,” Politico, 9/6/2012)

ZERO MENTIONS OF “OBAMACARE,” “AFFORDABLE CARE ACT,” “HEALTH CARE REFORM” OR “HEALTHCARE LAW” IN OBAMA CONVENTION SPEECH: (“Remarks by the President at the Democratic National Convention,” The White House, 9/7/2012)

ZERO MENTIONS OF “STIMULUS” OR “RECOVERY ACT”: (“Remarks by the President at the Democratic National Convention,” The White House, 9/7/2012)

ZERO MENTIONS OF OBAMACARE OR STIMULUS IN BIDEN SPEECH EITHER: (“Remarks by the Vice President at the Democratic National Convention,” The White House, 9/6/2012)

TRANSLATION: OBAMACARE IS A “BADGE OF HONOR”… BUT NOT FOR OBAMA?: (Sam Baker, “Sebelius: ‘ObamaCare is a Badge of Honor,’” The Hill, 9/5/2012)

NATIONAL JOURNAL: OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS LARGELY IGNORED DISCUSSING OBAMA’S RECORD: “Second, the Obama team has given short shrift to its first-term accomplishments.” (Major Garrett, “Chasing Romney, Losing Himself,” National Journal, 9/3/2012)

“OBAMA’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH DIDN’T MENTION UNEMPLOYED”: (Zeke Miller, “Obama’s Acceptance Speech Didn’t Mention Unemployed,” BuzzFeed, 9/7/2012)

FLASHBACK: OBAMA TOLD WOMAN IT WAS “INTERESTING” THAT HER HUSBAND WAS UNEMPLOYED: (“Obama Tells Woman: ‘Interesting’ Unemployed Husband Can’t Find a Job,” Real Clear Politics, 1/30/2012)

INSTEAD, DEM SPEAKERS SAVAGELY ATTACKED GOV. MITT ROMNEY AND REPUBLICANS: (Sean Lengell, “Dems Rev Up Attacks on Romney,” The Washington Times, 9/5/2012)

EXACTLY THE TYPE OF CAMPAIGN OBAMA CRITICIZED IN HIS 2008 ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: “OBAMA: If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.” (Jennifer Rubin, “Morning Bits,” The Washington Post, 4/12/2012)

After four years of failure, America’s working families are wondering what else Democrats might have in store for them. All we know so far is that Democrats are pushing for more tax increases and other polices that destroy jobs:

“STRONG QUOTIENT OF POLICY STATUS QUO” IN OBAMA PROPOSALS: “The theme of Obama’s campaign is ‘forward,’ chosen to convey the impression that the country is moving in the right direction. A majority of the country believes otherwise. So far there is a strong quotient of policy status quo in what Obama has talked about.” (Dan Balz, “What Is Obama’s Second-Term Plan?”, The Washington Post, 9/4/2012)

OBAMA “HAS SUGGESTED THAT THE POLICIES HE HAS PURSUED ARE WORKING” AND WANTS MORE OF THE SAME: “He has suggested that the policies he has pursued are working and that, given time, they will lay the foundation for a strong recovery sometime into the future.” (Dan Balz, “What Is Obama’s Second-Term Plan?”, The Washington Post, 9/4/2012)

WASHINGTON POST: OBAMA HAS LEARNED NOTHING, “HAS NEVER REALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE MADE MISTAKES”: “He has never really acknowledged that he made mistakes — other than saying he didn’t do an adequate job telling a better story about his accomplishments.” (Dan Balz, “What Is Obama’s Second-Term Plan?”, The Washington Post, 9/4/2012)

“SECOND-TERM PRIORITIES REMAIN LARGELY OPAQUE”: “And third, descriptions of second-term priorities remain largely opaque, leaving voters to wonder where a reelected Obama would take the country.” (Major Garrett, “Chasing Romney, Losing Himself,” National Journal, 9/3/2012)

THE PLAN SO FAR? MORE TAXES, LESS MEDICARE:

OBAMA’S BIG PLAN FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION IS TO GIVE A BOARD OF BUREAUCRATS EVEN MORE POWER TO CUT MEDICARE BENEFITS (“VALUE-BASED BENEFIT DESIGN”): (“Living Within Our Means and Investing in the Future,” Office of Management and Budget, September 2011)

TRANSLATION: “OBAMA BUDGET WANTS MORE TEETH” FOR MEDICARE-GUTTING BOARD: (Phillip Klein, “Obama Budget Wants More Teeth for Medicare Board,” The Washington Examiner, 2/13/2012)

LA TIMES: “FOR OBAMA, IT’S RIGHT BACK TO TAXES AFTER JOBS REPORT”:(Michael A. Memoli, “For Obama, It’s Right Back to Taxes After Jobs Report,” Los Angeles Times, 8/3/2012)

710,000 JOBS COULD BE DESTROYED BY DEMOCRATS’ TAX HIKE PLAN: (Robert Carroll and Gerald Prante, “Long-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Increasing Tax Rates on High-Income Taxpayers in 2013,” Ernst & Young, July 2012, Appendix C)

1.8% DROP IN WAGES: “Real after-tax wages would fall by 1.8%, reflecting a decline in workers’ living standards relative to what would have occurred otherwise.” (Robert Carroll and Gerald Prante, “Long-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Increasing Tax Rates on High-Income Taxpayers in 2013,” Ernst & Young, July 2012)

JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION: 940,000 SMALL BUSINESSES TO GET HIT BY DEMOCRATS’ LATEST TAX HIKE: “Congress’s Joint Tax Committee—not a conservative outfit—estimates that in 2013 about 940,000 taxpayers will have enough business income to meet Mr. Obama’s tax increase threshold.” (Editorial, “Off the Tax Cliff He Goes,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/10/2012)

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