Obama Fighting to Take Rightful Credit for Job Creation

The problem with being an actual job creator like Obama is that if you don't speak up and explicitly say "Yeah, those 600 new jobs in your city...that was from the policies I put forward. Remember that huge stimulus you love to hate? Right...yeah, that's where these jobs came from.." then people will just assume their favorite candidates did it, right or wrong. In the case of socially-conservative Holland, Michigan...that would be wrong.

Explicitly because of Obama's policies, BECAUSE of them, there are over 600 new jobs in Holland, Michigan making advanced batteries for electric cars at two new advanced battery manufacturing plants in Michigan.

BECAUSE of Democratic policies and the Obama administration's policies and Granholm's policies and support for renewable energy, Holland, Michigan, is ALSO home to a successful wind turbine blade manufacturing company called Energetx which employs hundreds more people in Holland.

Holland, by the way, isn't famous for its love for Democrats. But holy smokes are they major benefactors of Democratic policies. They sure do love the jobs Obama and Granholm dished out. Well over a thousand of them. And the DeVos family, also very anti-Democratic sure is willing to cash in on a new industry whose demand was fostered and established by Democratic policies....

Holland —
The Windquest Group, a private investment group headed by Dick and Betsy DeVos, has made an investment in Energetx Composites in Holland, Windquest announced Thursday.

The investment will be used to continue the scale-up of Energetx Composites’ manufacturing equipment for the production of utility-scale wind turbine blades, according to a news release from Energetx. Details of the transaction, including the amount of the investment, were not disclosed.

And now Gentex, an automotive parts manufacturer, is expanding in the area with plans to hire over 1100 new workers AGAIN in the Holland area. Zeeland to be specific. Gentex, courted by the Grahnolm administration with tax credits and abatements...then given a stable industry by Obama's rescue of the domestic auto industry. Again, another 1100 jobs created in an EXTREMELY conservative area based on Democratic policies and industrial and manufacturing support while Republicans screamed about picking winners and losers and the free market.

Thousands and thousands of jobs lured to a single region based almost exclusively on Democratic policies and incentives and support. And the kicker is, unless they are made ACUTELY aware that their city's well being and growth is coming on the backs of Democratic policies...this hyperconservative city will still probably vote Republican. They'll vote for the very people who once stood to obstruct every single step that lead to thousands of jobs in the Holland area.

It's infuriating.

And perhaps our President knows that. Perhaps that's why he's been to Holland, Michigan TWICE in the past year to speak at the opening of two different battery manufacturing plants in Holland.

Because if Obama doesn't do it...Bill Huizenga and Rick Snyder will take credit for the very things they tried to kill.

And we can't let them do that.

Rick Snyder's September 1st Job Culling, Consumer Screwing Bonanza

B is worried.

Her boyfriend works at Meijer and may see his hours cut dramatically because of the repeal of a Michigan law that will take effect September 1st of this year. Meijer is a major supermarket in Michigan...and B's boyfriend is a stock clerk there. He spends much of his time at his job pricing items before putting them on the shelves.

But soon the whole Pricing Items thing is about to be eliminated, courtesy of the Rick Snyder Administration...it's going to save stores over 2 billion dollars per year.....largely in personnel costs. Good bye jobs! With State level deregulation like this, it's no wonder Michigan's economic recovery stalled out at the 10.5% rate and Michigan lost 30,000 jobs in the past three months.

We're about to lose more. And of course it hits the lowest wage earners the hardest at the worst possible time.

The Michigan Pricing and Advertising of Consumer Items Act of 1976, AKA the Scanner Law, required that items in stores be individually priced.

The idea was to protect consumers as price scanning became more common...so that consumers would be able to compare the price they were charged on the receipt to the price of the tag.

Rick Snyder's administration sees the law as merely a drag on the state economy. Apparently businesses have become much more honest since 1979, and consumers no longer need a means to compare the price they paid with the price that the item is marked.

So the consumer will suffer. Low wage earners will suffer, because there will be less of a need to hire people to price items. But hey! At least the megamarts will benefit! And that's what it's all about, right?

Republicans Kill 1,288 Michigan Jobs as Unemployment Edges Up

This from Trumka's email today:

Last weekend, House Republican leaders proved just how far they are willing to go to achieve their ideological goals.

At 12:01 a.m. Saturday morning, they shut down the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). As if bringing America to the brink of default hasn’t done enough damage already. Are they out of their minds?

Because of the extreme ideological agenda of House Republicans and their political game-playing, 4,000 workers were furloughed over the weekend and more than 90,000 jobs across the country are on the line—including 1,288 in MI.

I don't understand it. It's a purposeful assault on jobs. The Republicans in Congress are killing jobs On Purpose. Michigan's U6 unemployment stood at 19.8% last month, with unemployment climbing again. Looks like it's about to go a lot higher, and on purpose.