Posted on 06/07/2012 7:05:02 PM PDT by neverdem
Last night in Racine, Wisconsin, while demanding jobs for the unemployed, Jesse Jackson decided to slam job creating gun dealers and called for a march on gun shops all over the country. h/t Katy Abram
"Guns out, jobs in."
Jackson wants to get rid of the very thing that has kept the economy afloat during Obama's presidency. The firearms industry has not only created jobs in the past three years but has also provided the government with a steady revenue stream.
NSSF today released a newly commissioned report detailing double-digit gains in jobs and other data showing the industry has been a leader in the nation’s economic recovery. The report can be viewed at http://nssf.org/impact.
Firearms industry members on Capitol Hill were briefed on such remarkable statistics as the 30.6 percent increase in jobs between 2008 and 2011, a 66.5 percent increase in economic impact and a 66.5 percent increase in federal taxes paid by industry companies.
Armed with the good news of the report and recognizing that jobs and the economy are of major importance in the November elections, industry executives are meeting today with elected officials during the NSSF-sponsored Congressional Fly-In.
“During difficult economic times and high unemployment rates nationally, our industry actually grew and created more than ten thousand new, well-paying jobs,” said NSSF President Steve Sanetti. “Our industry is proud to be one of the bright spots in this economy.”
Companies in the United States that manufacture, distribute and sell firearms, ammunition and hunting equipment employ as many as 98,752 people in the country and generate an additional 110,998 jobs in supplier and ancillary industries. These include jobs in companies supplying goods and services to manufacturers, distributors and retailers, as well as those that depend on sales to workers in the firearms and ammunition industry. [1]
These are good jobs, paying an average of $46,858 in wages and benefits. And today, every job is important. In fact, in the United States the unemployment rate has reached 8.2 percent. This means that there are already 13,430,000 people trying to find jobs in the state and collecting unemployment benefits. [2]
Not only does the manufacture and sale of firearms and hunting supplies create good jobs in the United States but the industry also contributes to the economy as a whole. In fact, in 2012 the firearms and ammunition industry was responsible for as much as $31.84 billion in total economic activity in the country.
The Country Also Benefits from the Taxes Paid by the Industry
Not only does the firearms and ammunition industry create jobs, it also generates sizable tax revenues. In the United States the industry and its employees pay over $2.07 billion in taxes including property, income, and sales based levies. [3]
Hey Jackson, don't bite the hand that feeds you.
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All Progressives are terrified of an armed citizenry.
Jesse has been irrelevant for quite some time now——and he knows it.
His day is over,but he keeps trying——and trying——and trying.
Now if we could just shove something in Reverend Al’s mouth.
Anyone know why humans are split into ‘race’, and animals into ‘species’?
this will have the opposite effect- people will specifically go out and buy a gun from the stores he is at just to spite him
“OK, I can see that this is not going to end well....”
Yup, if 700 yoot storm a gun store, if the 6 people in the store open up with what they can grab and load, maybe 100 yoot will get hurt.
And the media and Holder will posthumously indict the six store employees. Obama will call for the shutting down of all the stores, until “things can be worked out”.
Not a word will be mentioned of where the store contents went to. Then on to the next store.
Sorry for being so pessimistic, but all of these flashmobs look like training exercises to me.
We may have to roll out and attack the rear as volunteers if this becomes reality.
He really should get up a posse and hit the gun shows.
That would be cool.
There are “races” of animals, like the melanistic squirrels vs grey squirrels, light-phase redtail hawks vs dark phase, tricolor blackbirds vs redwings.
Animals also have "races". They are referred to as breeds.
Hence that half breed mofo inn the white hut
Races of any “species” can interbreed.
Different species, with few exceptions, cannot.
That was on Meet The Press. Tim Russert sat unmoved during Jesse's duck for cover and casually told him it was a bulb blowing out. Never saw a bulb blow out on TV. Wonder if it was a plant to elicit Jesse's paranoid "the're out to get me" side.
The always destructive race pig Jackson, needs to “march on” the absentee, not-give-a-$hit “fathers” and pathologically promiscuous “mothers” in the black community.
Therein lies the root of YOUR problem, you dark continent jackass, not with an honest, productive business concern.
And no, it is not LBJ’s fault.
Especially the ones on any Martin Luther King Blvd.
Thanks Ranger man
Least one person out there thinks I may be at least a little sane.
Oh. Bad idea, JJ. Don't bring shoes to a gunfight.
Well, somebody needs to. Apparently Michelle doesn't.
And a fourth: Never ask a woman her age.
Ah, hell naw! That man's a constant source of entertainment. Almost as good as Plagiarizing Joe.
I will march on my local gun store...TO BUY A COUPLE MORE!!!:)
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