Does This look like an Economic Recovery to You?

A failed $trillion stimulus and few, if any new jobs is Obama's economic legacy!

Did you see these headlines last week?

UPI: Calif. unemployment hits record high

AP: Florida unemployment hits record high
California's unemployment hit 12.6% and Florida's is 12.3%.

And where was Obama when this dire news was about to hit? He was in Florida telling spaceworkers he was canceling much of the manned space program which means a loss of thousands more of the most highly skilled jobs in both Florida and California's aerospace industries, not to mention Texas.

The past nine months Obama has talked about little else other than health care. Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain out of work. If a Republican President were in the White House we'd read daily stories about the toll of human suffering wrought by the President's economic policy. But with Obama in the White House the "news" media hardly notices unemployment or discusses the lack of any effective jobs policy coming from Democrats.

From House Ways and Means Republicans:

48 of 50 States Have Lost Jobs Since Democrats’ Stimulus
Friday, April 16, 2010

While the President recently said the economy had “turned a corner,” it’s hard to tell that from looking at the job situation across the U.S. According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor, and the chart below, through March 2010 a total of 48 out of 50 States had seen net job losses since the President signed the Democrats’ stimulus plan into law in February 2009. The data show that only Alaska, North Dakota and the District of Columbia have seen net job creation since then. And (other than the perhaps predictable exception of D.C.) those states that have seen some increases in jobs are still well short of the growth the White House originally forecast. Additionally, over 3 million jobs have been eliminated since the Democrats’ stimulus, unemployment remains stuck at 9.7 percent instead of 7.4 percent and falling as Democrats predicted, and a record 16 million Americans are out of work.

To see how the Democrats’ stimulus has failed your state, see the table below.

 

State	Administration Claims of Change in Jobs Through December 2010	Actual Change in Jobs Through March 2010
Alabama	+52,000	-61,200
Alaska	+8,000	+3,800
Arizona	+70,000	-100,300
Arkansas	+31,000	-17,800
California	+396,000	-558,900
Colorado	+59,000	-86,700
Connecticut	+41,000	-41,100
Delaware	+11,000	-11,500
District of Columbia	+12,000	+10,000
Florida	+206,000	-203,700
Georgia	+106,000	-139,400
Hawaii	+15,000	-12,000
Idaho	+17,000	-18,200
Illinois	+148,000	-187,900
Indiana	+75,000	-59,700
Iowa	+37,000	-25,200
Kansas	+33,000	-47,600
Kentucky	+48,000	-29,500
Louisiana	+50,000	-39,300
Maine	+15,000	-11,200
Maryland	+66,000	-31,400
Massachusetts	+79,000	-69,800
Michigan	+109,000	-121,200
Minnesota	+66,000	-62,300
Mississippi	+30,000	-26,000
Missouri	+69,000	-65,600
Montana	+11,000	-6,200
Nebraska	+23,000	-17,000
Nevada	+34,000	-68,800
New Hampshire	+16,000	-3,700
New Jersey	+100,000	-85,300
New Mexico	+22,000	-22,400
New York	+215,000	-143,300
North Carolina	+105,000	-91,800
North Dakota	+8,000	+900
Ohio	+133,000	-178,900
Oklahoma	+40,000	-50,700
Oregon	+44,000	-53,200
Pennsylvania	+143,000	-117,700
Rhode Island	+12,000	-14,100
South Carolina	+50,000	-25,600
South Dakota	+10,000	-6,600
Tennessee	+70,000	-73,100
Texas	+269,000	-211,000
Utah	+32,000	-30,500
Vermont	+8,000	-5,300
Virginia	+93,000	-75,000
Washington	+75,000	-84,000
West Virginia	+20,000	-16,600
Wisconsin	+70,000	-94,100
Wyoming	+8,000	-11,800