20 Replies to ““780,000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office””

1. Pablo says:

   July 6, 2012 at 10:34 am

   Somebody on the Romney team isn’t a complete idiot. Broken Record, Broken Promises.

2. OCBill says:

   July 6, 2012 at 10:41 am

   That darned Bush! His voodoo is so strong that it continues to cause havoc even after the recovery started back in 2009, as trumpeted by the genius, Joe Biden.

3. EBL says:

   July 6, 2012 at 10:46 am

   I mean seriously, going to help orphans in Zambia? Who is he kidding. That Bush is still working his evil mojo on the economy.

   Barack Obama better double down on a new stimulation plan for the economy! It is like foreplay, with just the right technique he can get the economy all hot and bothered!

4. LBascom says:

   July 6, 2012 at 10:56 am

   Or, to look at it from another angle:

   No Country for Burly Men

   A “man-cession.” That’s what some economists are starting to call it. Of the 5.7 million jobs Americans lost between December 2007 and May 2009, nearly 80 percent had been held by men. Mark Perry, an economist at the University of Michigan, characterizes the recession as a “downturn” for women but a “catastrophe” for men.

   Men are bearing the brunt of the current economic crisis because they predominate in manufacturing and construction, the hardest-hit sectors, which have lost more than 3 million jobs since December 2007. Women, by contrast, are a majority in recession-resistant fields such as education and health care, which gained 588,000 jobs during the same period.

   What to do, what to do…?

   President-elect Obama addressed the devastation in the construction and manufacturing industries by proposing an ambitious New Deal-like program to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. He called for a two-year “shovel ready” stimulus program to modernize roads, bridges, schools, electrical grids, public transportation, and dams and made reinvigorating the hardest-hit sectors of the economy the goal of the legislation that would become the recovery act.

   Sounds reasonable, if your a Keynesian. Still…

   Women’s groups were appalled. Grids? Dams? Opinion pieces immediately appeared in major newspapers with titles like “Where are the New Jobs for Women?” and “The Macho Stimulus Plan.” A group of “notable feminist economists” circulated a petition that quickly garnered more than 600 signatures, calling on the president-elect to add projects in health, child care, education, and social services and to “institute apprenticeships” to train women for “at least one third” of the infrastructure jobs.

   Well, you can probably guess what happened next:

   A recent Associated Press story reports: “Stimulus Funds Go to Social Programs Over ‘Shovel-ready’ Projects.” A team of six AP reporters who have been tracking the funds find that the $300 billion sent to the states is being used mainly for health care, education, unemployment benefits, food stamps, and other social services. According to Chris Whately, director of the Council of State Governments, “We all talked about ‘shovel-ready’ since September and assumed it was a whole lot of paving and building when, in fact, that’s not the case.” At the same time, the Labor Department’s latest (June 5) employment report shows unemployment rates of 8 percent for women and 10.5 percent for men. “Unprecedented” is what Harvard economist Greg Mankiw called the new 2.5 percentage-point gender gap. “It’s the highest male-female jobless rate gap in the history of BLS [Labor Department] data back to 1948,” said Mark Perry

   Read the whole thing as they say, then compare it with this post. And realize, a proggs work is NEVER done.

5. DarthLevin says:

   July 6, 2012 at 11:20 am

   The only reason I’d want Obama to come through my town is so I can wear my SCOAMF t-shirt.

6. leigh says:

   July 6, 2012 at 11:33 am

   Heh. If his tour gets close enough to your town, Darth, you could take the girls. It’d be a “teaching” moment, as the Wonce likes to say.

7. cranky-d says:

   July 6, 2012 at 11:35 am

   “Look, girls. Do you see that man? He’s the president. The worst president in my lifetime. Let’s hope he’s the worst in your lifetime too.”

8. Squid says:

   July 6, 2012 at 11:48 am

   “Now when the President comes to shake hands, you spit on your palms, just like you would after you play a soccer team that cheats. Because that’s pretty much what he’s like.”

9. BigBangHunter says:

   July 6, 2012 at 11:57 am

   – “85,000 added to the disability roles in June”

   POLAND, Ohio-Speaking at a campaign event, President Obama told supporters that this morning’s worse-than-expected jobs report marks a “step in the right direction.”

   “We learned this morning that our businesses created 84,000 new jobs last month. And that, overall, means that businesses have created 4.4 million new jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs,” he said to applause from the packed auditorium at Dobbins Elementary School. “That’s a step in the right direction.”

   “Before the report, economists had projected around 90,000 new jobs were created in June, so the report was a disappointment. The economy needs to create around 150,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth.”

   – So there you have it. Job growth, month after month, setting at a rate half of whats needed simply to stay even with the depression we already have is a “step in the right direction”.

   “…..Ooooohhh look…..Over there…..bunnies…..”

10. leigh says:

    July 6, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Ack! He’s in Pittsburgh this afternoon at what looks like the Soldiers and Sailors building dahntahn. We’ll have to await a report from nr.

11. DarthLevin says:

    July 6, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    Pittsburgh? Heh. I bet he stops at Primanti Bros. and orders a sandwich, but with fries and slaw on the side.

12. leigh says:

    July 6, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    Heh. I’ll bet he tries that, Darth. And tries to special order a sammich when they have signs all over the place the scream “no substitutions!”

    Way to fuck over all the shoppers in the Strip District (which is a traffic nightmare to begin with) on a Friday afternoon. I see pissed off Italian nonnas grumbling as they try to push their wheelie carts along the sidewalk.

13. Squid says:

    July 6, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    Hasn’t Pittsburgh suffered enough?

14. Ernst Schreiber says:

    July 6, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    Barack Obama better double down on a new stimulation plan for the economy! It is like foreplay, with just the right technique he can get the economy all hot and bothered!

    You need to think of Solyndra and all the other boondoggles as cheap booze.

15. ccs says:

    July 6, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    I was only 10 miles from Poland this morning. Would have loved to go heckle but I had to work.

16. newrouter says:

    July 6, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    does poland look better from 15 kilometers?

17. Roddy Boyd says:

    July 6, 2012 at 9:54 pm

    I think a smart candidate would say something to the effect of “Look, everyone knows the economy sucks and we’ve used every arrow in the monetary and fiscal quiver. Let’s cut spending, let’s cut taxes on companies and people and see what that brings. How much worse could it be?”

18. newrouter says:

    July 6, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    Let’s cut spending,

    let’s dismantle the fed gov’t. the proggs will go right back to building it up. keep them busy. less damage.

19. palaeomerus says:

    July 7, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    No worries. They were probably inauthentic women like Michelle Bachmann. Only with less teeth. And neck tattoos of a cross. Just the usual fly-over trash.

20. leigh says:

    July 7, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Now, neck tattoos of crosses and gold teeth, that’s inner city. Where all the authentic bitches live.

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