What Happened to Obama’s Promise of Jobs?
The Obama administration assured the American public that the hundreds of billions of dollars they pumped into the economy would prevent layoffs and revive the American economy. The Alliance for Worker Freedom distributed the following press release in the face of soaring unemployment figures.
What happened to Obama's Promise of Jobs?
The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF), an organization established in 2003 to combat anti-worker legislation and promote free and open labor markets, calls for Barack Obama to adopt pro-growth economic policy.
Obama sold his stimulus package by saying, “our plan will likely save or create 3 to 4 million jobs…. Ninety percent of these jobs will be created in the private sector.” Since making this announcement Obama has seen unemployment skyrocket.
Job losses per month:
- February: -651,000
- March: -663,000
- April: -539,000
- May: -303,000
- June: -443,000
- July: -247,000
Other employment news is troubling with Obama backing job killing legislation and increasing American’s tax burden:
- Since the start of the recession the private sector has shed 6.9 million jobs while state and local governments added 110,000.
- Over the past year, total state-local employment rose in 30 states.
- In 2008 42.2 percent of government workers were unionized compared to 7.6 percent of private-sector workers
- Government employees are notoriously capricious often not showing up for work: Between 2001 and 2007, federal employees at 18 departments and agencies were Absent Without Leave at least 19.6 million hours.
- Obama supports Cap-and-Trade which will cost an estimated 2 million jobs its first year of implementation.
- Obama endorses the Employee Free Choice Act which would reduce employment opportunities by 765,000 jobs within two years.
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