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To: RaisingCain
That may be why he ran Massachusetts into the ground. Well, to be fair, it is perpetually running into the ground because of progressives like Mitt. It was third from the bottom in terms of business growth,

Well now, quoting stats put forth by David Axelrod are we? I'm only giving this a one post reply.

Did you know the 2005 unemployment rate in MA was 4.8%? 4% is essentially full employment. How much "business growth" can you have when the State is fully employed? Does that factor into your Axelrod "factoid" on MA's "business growth"?

Reported by PolitiFact:

"According to a spokesman, the Romney campaign calculated the yearly percentage increase or decrease in job growth for each of Romney’s four years in office. So from December 2002 to December 2003, the job growth in Massachusetts was 51st highest nationally out of 50 states plus the District of Columbia -- in other words, dead last. The following year, it was 46th, then 40th, then in Romney’s final year in office -- December 2005 to December 2006 -- it was 30th in the nation.

Looking at the statistics in this way advances the Romney camp’s argument that, while Massachusetts’ overall job growth under Romney was among the lowest of any state, the trendline over time puts his tenure in a more favorable light. A state that was a doormat in job growth at the beginning of his tenure rose into the broad middle of the rankings by the end of it.

We did our own math and found the exact same results as the Romney camp. So we agree that the numbers back up Fehrnstrom’s general argument that job growth rates in the state improved over the course of Romney’s governorship relative to other states."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jun/05/eric-fehrnstrom/mitt-romney-campaign-says-job-growth-massachusetts/

29 posted on 08/10/2012 11:43:58 PM PDT by ThirstyMan
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To: ThirstyMan

“Well now, quoting stats put forth by David Axelrod are we? I’m only giving this a one post reply.

Did you know the 2005 unemployment rate in MA was 4.8%? 4% is essentially full employment. How much “business growth” can you have when the State is fully employed? Does that factor into your Axelrod “factoid” on MA’s “business growth”?

Reported by PolitiFact:

“According to a spokesman, the Romney campaign calculated the yearly percentage increase or decrease in job growth for each of Romney’s four years in office. So from December 2002 to December 2003, the job growth in Massachusetts was 51st highest nationally out of 50 states plus the District of Columbia — in other words, dead last. The following year, it was 46th, then 40th, then in Romney’s final year in office — December 2005 to December 2006 — it was 30th in the nation.

Looking at the statistics in this way advances the Romney camp’s argument that, while Massachusetts’ overall job growth under Romney was among the lowest of any state, the trendline over time puts his tenure in a more favorable light. A state that was a doormat in job growth at the beginning of his tenure rose into the broad middle of the rankings by the end of it.”


Apparently the vast majority of job losses were in manufacturing, a little more than 11 percent, whereas the healthcare services and “business professionals” increased the most, thus accounting for your drop. Which is not surprising, considering RomneyCare. The same thing will probably happen under ObamaCare once it kicks in. Real jobs will be lost, while government jobs and jobs associated with entitlements will boom.

http://news.yahoo.com/mixed-job-picture-romney-mass-governor-131712965.html

Considering Mass. was one of the highest taxed states in the union, and was a victim to an unethical and statist takeover of their healthcare system as well as other gimmicks and fees, it is not surprising that Romney fled the state. I wouldn’t want to live in that hell hole either.


30 posted on 08/11/2012 12:06:40 AM PDT by RaisingCain
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