Posted on 04/11/2006 5:32:33 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is telling upstate New Yorkers that the reason she hasn't delivered on her 2000 campaign promise to create 200,000 new jobs for the region is because Republicans control the federal government.
Asked about her jobs failure, Mrs. Clinton told the Syracuse Post-Standard: "I didn't have the benefit of a Democratic Congress. But I think given the fact that that wasn't the environment that I'd hoped for, we've seen some progress."
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She loves to play "Victim".
It was a silly promise anyway. There is little the Federal government can do to create anything but Federal gov't jobs. Certainly not when Albany is as dysfunctional as it is. It's not Sen. Clinton's fault, per se, that she couldn't create new jobs in the region. She never should have promised, however, what was beyond her power to deliver as a member of the minority party in the Federal government.
whoa whoa WHOA, now wait a minute??! Is Hillary! saying there's not enough jobs for the citizens of New York?? But but but we're being told we need all these illegal aliens to take up the jobs Americans won't do!
If 200,000 jobs had been created, do you think she would be out there giving credit to the Federal Government (even if there were a Dem Congress)? No way, she'd be tooting her own horn.
"You'll win some, you lose some"
I'd like to hear the ones, she's won!
I didn't have? She must have Freud on psychic speed dial next to Eleanor Roosevelt with all these slips.
Last time I checked, we had a Dem Senate her first two years in office. How did job growth fare during that period?
So Hillary lied about a promise she had no way of keeping then blames Bush. Priceless. Of course, what was Bill's excuse for not delivering on a middle class tax cut he promised for 8-years.
There isn't a Democrat in Congress who cares a rat's ass about Americans.
They focus all their empathy on terrorists, illegal invaders and animals.
I'm from Western NY- All Hitlery has done for the last years since she carpetbaged her ass to NY is raise money. There is not one accomplishment that any one can point to and say "she gets credit for that" Don't get between a camera and her-you'll get run down
She just couldn't find a place within the fed gov't to create so many jobs. Or like with school teacher positions, how can ya when so many are leaving.
I realize all that. They change their arguments, claims, and excuses to fit their agenda faster than I can change spoiled underwear.
Geez Hillary. Why aren't you putting pressure on your Democrat counter-parts in the State Legislature to help you create jobs instead of blaming Republicans in Congress. And by the way, how about showing us some of the legislation you introduced that would help create those jobs. I think we'd all really like to see them. What? They're missing and you haven't seen them since your days at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas?
Upstate NY has the Worst Economy since Herbert Hoover!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
because the media will report it that way regardless of the facts you present..
I thought the reason was that the is a senator and senators dont "create jobs" business's do...shows how much I know..
So I guess the conclusion that could be drawn from her comment is that the voters would have gotten those 200,000 jobs if they had only elected a Republican.
I believe the population of the state NY is in decline. I might have read it wrong. However, when a state that collects tax dollars the way NY does loses the payers to their stately neighbors, they have to raise taxes on those left to logically fill the gap. Same goes for when businesses leave the area. Is it any wonder that the economy in NY and MA is fledgeling amidst an otherwise national economic boom?
So Hillary, how is it that the rest of the country is doing so well because of "this administration's policies" but your state is in a QUAGMIRE? And just keep on staying in the "fight". That's right, keep fighting against your own citizens and businesses. The jobs are going to start flooding into NY any minute now. In fact, I will be willing to bet that those "immigrants" that you love (they can't vote) are finding plenty of work in Manhattan, Buffalo, Long Island, etc. They are the faces of the people that clean up behind us at hotels. They are the faces of the people that feed us. If you count their jobs in your state, then how are you doing?
Hillary, keep us posted.
26,000 more left last year..
http://www.newyorkcoalition.org look at my tagline.
She might, with some justification, have pointed to the state's incompetent governor, and to NY's venal legislature.
I work for a staffing agency which has clients in upstate New York. I have found it is extremely difficult, near impossible, to get qualified candidates from other parts of the country to move there.
Reasons given are always the same:
1) Weather is too harsh, too cold, too much snow.
Not appealing from anyone not already living in
New England or Great Lakes area who is used to it.
2) If I am going to live in a small city or sleepy rural
backwater, I want to enjoy the benefits of a lower
cost of living, which I will not in NY State, because
of the crushing tax burden that will be heaped on me
to support all of the Socialist benes for people
down in New York City.
Call candidates in South Carolina, Alabama or Texas about a job in upstate NY and they will just laugh in your face!
If your choice is between a job in Greenville or Utica, it becomes a no-brainer!
Eventually the employers get tired of having their key positions go unfilled, and they decide to leave the state.
You want to create 200,000 new jobs, Hillary??? Then get off your fat a$$ and vote for kicking every illegal TRESPASSER ("immigrant" is not what these people are) out of this country!
During the campaign she touted her connections as why could deliver on more jobs for upstate NY. Now it is the GOP's fault. LOL
Because the Republicans on the state and local level are every bit as bad as the Democrats are. Corruption and patronage (and, to a lesser extent, taxes) are killing this state, and the Republicans play the game just as well as any Democrat.
First, The Republican Party in NY is a joke, it's the Country Club network.
Second, Queen Hillary just wanted a national stage, a stepping stone to the White House. She had no intention of helping out Upstate New York.
Every statewide official claims they'll revitalize Upstate/Western New York. Pataki was elected on that premise, and Spitzer is currently running on that premise. The guy - Democrat or Republican - who pulls off an economic revitalization will have a loyal voting bloc for life.
Isn't that the truth /sad agreement.
Agreed... http://www.newyorkcoalition.org
I claim our first victory too.
Marchi, state senator retires, he was/is on our list as a target to primary.
Taxes are a symptom, not the cause.
The real problem is that we're still stuck with an antiquated government structure. It's not unheard of for a person to be covered by 9 jurisdictions, each with the independant ability to levy taxes (Federal, State, County, Town, Village, sewer and water district, fire district, school district, and one I can't recall). That's a lot of bureaucracy - and bureuacracy gets particularly expensive when you give each executive the power to appoint employees. There's a lot of places the executive can stuff political patronage employees.
Then you consider that Upstate NY has an aging infrastructure and governmental structure that was built for a larger population.
Then add into the fact that benefits are exploding across the US, though NY seems to spend more per capita than any other state in the union.
With all these factors, its no wonder taxes are high.
Same situation here in Michigan.
Our communist governor blames the Bush administration for job losses, when it's her Marxist policies that are driving people and business out.
She took her begging bowl to Japan last year and pleaded with Japanese automakers to move to Michigan. They sent her home with a bag of sushi for the alley cats. Her idea of economic development is stealing money from productive communities and buying taxpayer subsidized couscous stands in Detroit.
Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the US and more people fled the state than at any time since the great depression.
BTW, our gov. is a student of Hillary and if anyone wants to see an America under Hillary, check out Michigan.
No, no, no, no!. It's not Democrats that are the problem. The Republicans are just as bad, if not worse. It wasn't a Democratic County Exec. that spent Nassau County or Erie County into oblivion.
The problem is the endemic culture of patronage and corruption in New York. Whenever serious bi-partisan reformers try to make a change, they run into the unmovable wall that is the powers that be. For instance, a bipartisan group of working-class Democrats and Republicans have formulated a serious proposal for reform of Erie County's structure. I predict that the Erie County legislature will just let that proposed reform linger on a bookshelf somewhere, rather than letting the voters decide the matter.
Very well put. My family still lives in Oneida County, they have a sales tax rate of 9.5%. It's outrageous, the county said they had to increase it to that much because of Medicaid spending. Well, to find out the County Exec. overestimated it by around 10 million dollars.
They have plans to decrease it in increments starting in December. Now this County Exec., a Republican, has plans to go to Albany as a State Senator to reduce taxes. What a joke.
Wonder how she gets around this ?
It's suprising she didn't claim to have created 312,000 jobs.
Same experience here in Erie County. The Republican County Executive ran on the platform of cutting property taxes, and promptly did so. He then proceeded to spend down all of Erie County's reserves, until he was faced with a property tax hike (which he adamantly refused to do) or raising the sales tax to 9.25%. It took the Legislature almost a year to do the sales tax hike. While Erie County was "poor," Mr. Giambra saw fit to steer contracts (for example, a furniture buying spree from a childhood friend) and patronage positions to his political supporters and his family. The prototypical example is Mr. Giambra's $80k/yr. personal driver, who just happened to be another childhood friend.
[It's suprising she didn't claim to have created 312,000 jobs.]
She is not done yet. Later today, she will announce that indeed she has created those jobs in her state. But because of "This administration" the government doesn't recognize the hard working immigrants that those jobs went to. We don't even have the decency to recognize them as citizens so they work in the dark and are forced to take low paying jobs that are not reported because of silly immigration laws.
Even funnier - even though the name "Giambra" is radioactive around Buffalo, he still is considering running for Congress. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, I guess.
Good point. You're right. I have friends that live in upstate, small town NY ( I lived there myself for a while) and there are lots of little fifedoms and tax districts, etc.
Giambra's brain, a river runs through it...
I cannot fathom why people want her to be president. She has done nothing in the U.S. senate but b*tch and complain. That is not leadership.
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