The po0litical game of bragging about job creation seldom talks about teh jobs lost. Example...Big Stone 2. Cory Heidelberger and his big-government control freaks celebrate this:
Developers have announced that Big Stone II, a 1.6 billion dollar coal plant scheduled to go up near Milbank, South Dakota will not be [...]
Saving jobs and spending money. Oh, here are the congressional districts in South Dakota which are getting all that money from the stimulus:
Let me know when you figure out where all those extra districts may be found. Here I was thinking we just had one of [...]
Feeling the heat of the announcement that unemployment has exceeded 10% , President Obama before taking off for his Asian Trip announced that he was calling a jobs summit for December.
The President understands that despite repeated Administration carping that somehow all our problems were inherited [...]
A couple more adjustments, and you will be a gay-hating teabagger
Gotta hand it to the Gargoyle Leader, they won’t publish my letters about how our street department is wasteful and inept, but they will publish the letters of two different teabagging, right wing nut jobs in the [...]
More cool jobs for South Dakota.
SD salmon looking for home.
Still loving the principle of punitive taxation: Herseth Sandlin on the health care bill.
[...]South Dakota Public Radio aired a report yesterday focused on green job development in Howard, SD. Individuals can listen to it here.
The story, reported by Charles Michael Ray, noted that the community stands to benefit from the creation of additional “green jobs” if the Climate Bill passes Congress. [...]
From Politico, it looks like no matter how the national dems are trying to spin it, some Red State Dems aren’t so happy with the turn of events:
Election Day losses in Virginia and New Jersey have congressional Democrats focused like never before on jobs — their [...]
Phyllis Schlafly has an interesting point regarding the economics:
In the current recession, the majority of workers laid off have been men (especially from construction and manufacturing). Jobs where women predominate have not been much affected.
Even so, the feminists demanded that the Obama administration give half the stimulus jobs [...]
From the Brookings Register on 2/17/09, Tim Johnson met with local officials to extol the virtues of the Obama Stimulus plan:
From today’s Argus Leader:
When the bill passed, the White House estimated it would create or save 10,000 jobs in South Dakota – a figure that puzzled [...]
The numbers are in regrading South Dakota's government created jobs:
State government's first report for the economic stimulus package says the federal program has created or saved the equivalent of 1,407 full-time jobs so far in South Dakota.
Many of them went to construction workers, teachers and young people seeking summer [...]
I’m frustrated with the new emphasis on “saving and creating jobs” and find this state’s claims of X jobs saved or created to be little more than sucking up to the federal government teat which is currently on offer: the stimulus.
Keith Hennessey has a number of useful observations regarding [...]
We published a story today from The Associated Press that says the federal economic stimulus program has "created or saved the equivalent of 1,407 full-time jobs so far in South Dakota."
I was less than bowled over by that number. I figured the state has to be down [...]
Construction is for the birds. Wonder who will take out the flood insurance?
Making animal cruelty a felony? Guess unborn children rate below animals now.
Mr. Forbes to address Sioux Falls Chamber tomorrow.
Creating and saving jobs with the stimulus.
[...]The numbers are in regrading South Dakota's government created jobs:
State government's first report for the economic stimulus package says the federal program has created or saved the equivalent of 1,407 full-time jobs so far in South Dakota.
Many of them went to construction workers, teachers and young people seeking summer [...]
This is a very good picture of jobs and how the decrease in them has been distributed across the United States over the last few years. If you’ve not seen it yet, go and enjoy.
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