Don’t Play Politics With Jobs Numbers
Why isn’t our State Representative saying anything about the Patrick Administration’s numbers game over jobs? Originally, the Governor reported over 42,000 jobs added in 2011. That number grossly overestimated the number of jobs by more than 30,000. This is nothing more than an attempt by the Patrick administration to play politics rather than deal with the jobs crisis we have in Massachusetts.
As I wrote last week the Commonwealth is number one in underemployed people with a rate of 8.9 percent. These are people who have given up looking for work in their field or taken lesser type jobs to make ends meet.
In response to the political gamesmanship with the job creation numbers, four Senators have requested that the State Auditor investigate and report on the true figures. If our State Representative truly cared about jobs in Massachusetts, then she would first admonish the Governor for misleading the public and second, support the Senators asking Bump to investigate. Unfortunately, these actions would require her to go against her party. So it comes down to a simple question: Who is she going to put first, party or the people she represents?
Barry
4:12 pm on Thursday, March 22, 2012
Give it a rest, Marty. If you want to run against Carolyn, run against her and not Deval Patrick. He won't be on the ballot in November.
Iron Mike
1:03 pm on Friday, March 23, 2012
Barry, I’m sure you and Carolyn would LIKE to somehow separate her from that mindless pack of über-liberals ensconced on Beacon Hill.
Unfortunately, she ran in 2008 as part of ‘the team’. Immediately after winning re-election - again as part of the team - several high-profile companies shut down or moved operations out of state. Thousands of jobs were LOST. That’s called ‘cause and effect’.
Ms. Dykema was NEVER part of ANY solution for our beleaguered state. She is merely a continuation of the Democrats ‘business-as-usual’ - which today produced three more federal indictments.
[You gotta know that things are DIRTY when Eric Holder’s JustUS Department goes after Democrats - he only goes after low-hanging fruit.]
Before jumping to her defense - find out how many bills she filed to CUT PERSONEL, CUT DEPARTMENTS and CUT SPENDING.
Since you defend her so vigorously I gotta ask; - are you part of her campaign, - her family, or - just a personal admirer?
BTW, how many jobs has OBAMA or DEVAL brought to our state?
Kelly Roney
10:48 pm on Sunday, March 25, 2012
Iron Mike, yet another of Tea Party Marty's out-of-district true believers...
It amuses me that Lamb admonishes Democrats not to play games with employment numbers, and then he does nothing but play games with them.
Massachusetts has better employment numbers than the nation as a whole, even after the methodological change in the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, which the Obama and Patrick administrations are discussing in public. Perhaps Marty and Mike don't understand how many sources of estimates about employment there are.
By the way, their source on underemployment seems to be making the Teapublican rounds. It's been tried on the Cape too. It is simply not true that Massachusetts is worst in America - not even close. We're either 33rd worst (using U6) or better than average - http://capenews.net/blogs/snark-infested_waters/2012/03/20/fact-check-theater-tom-keyes-and-underemployment/
Can we expect a correction from Mr. Lamb?
JKelley
12:04 pm on Monday, March 26, 2012
The unemployment in this state and right here in Holliston is awful and Beacon Hill is NOT telling the truth about job numbers. See here......
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2012/03/governor-patrick-oft-cited-job-numbers-incorrect-state-ranks-not/miAr5B9E0aRxmSKwbTbOkO/index.html?p1=Well_Politics_links