Hillary Clinton: NY Jobs Failure GOP's Fault

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/11/06 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Prysson]

I thought the reason was that the is a senator and senators dont "create jobs" business's do...shows how much I know..

[marko525]

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.

[Tenacious 1]

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.

[The Mayor]

26,000 more left last year..

http://www.newyorkcoalition.org look at my tagline.

[Redbob]

She might, with some justification, have pointed to the state's incompetent governor, and to NY's venal legislature.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The ones who voted for her must have been deaf, dumb and blind.
IT couldn't sell lifeboats on the Titanic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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.

[stylin19a]

In fact, New York State has actually lost 112,000 jobs since sending Mrs. Clinton to Washington, according to the Public Policy Institute in Albany.

Wonder how she gets around this ?

[NRA1995]

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!

[kabar]

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

[jude24]

In a state where both Senators are Democrat, the bulk of the Congressional delegation is Democrat, the legislature is Democrat, the Attorney General and Comptroller are Democrats, and the Republicans are cross dressing Democrats, how is it the GOP's fault the state is a disaster

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.

[mikey565]

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.

[jude24]

And by the way, wasn't Hillary elected Senator because SHE was going to revitalize the northern part of the state's industry/ businesses/jobs?

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.

[garyhope]

So, the national unemployment rate is a very low UNDER 5%, like 4.7 and THE BEAST COULD NOT CREATE ANY JOBS?

New York city is functioning and prosperous, but the rest of NY is a mess. NY state and local taxes are outrageous and confiscatory. No wonder there is little job creation there.

[jude24]

First, The Republican Party in NY is a joke, it's the Country Club network.

Isn't that the truth /sad agreement.

[The Mayor]

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.

[xarmydog]

I fled there 12 years ago and haven't looked back.There are jobs there,but only for the multiple Govt.agency's that are layered so thick,to start a business there,you have to have a large amount of money to start with.I know of a small town in upstate NY that had a small credit union that wanted to expand three blocks away on a vacant parking lot.It took three years by the time all the permits,EPA nonsense,and whatever you could imagine was completed.Lord knows how much was spent before a shovel full of dirt could be dug.It was a credit union,and they had the money.And they cry about no jobs.It seemed like everyone was self employed as long as you had a pickup truck with a ladder.I don't know how those people survive.Quite a few have no choice but to work under the table to make ends meet.It is a perfect example of democrats being in charge way to long.But as long as the people keep voting the way they do,they deserve it.I have friends there,but they have a choice.Move.

[jude24]

NY state and local taxes are outrageous and confiscatory. No wonder there is little job creation there.

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.

[sergeantdave]

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.

[jude24]

It is a perfect example of democrats being in charge way to long.

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.