Unemployment dropped in every Republican state in 2010

[Locutus]

In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus on fiscal issues, 17 states elected Republican governors. And, according to an Examiner.com analysis, every one of those states saw a drop in their unemployment rates since January of 2011. Since January of 2011, here is how much the unemployment rate declined in each of the 17 states that elected Republican governors in 2010, according to theExaminer:

Kansas - 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8 [percentage points (11.6 percent)]
Maine - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6 [percentage points (7.5 percent)]
Michigan - 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of [2.4 percentage points (22 percent)]
New Mexico - 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of [1.0 percentage points (13 percent)]
Oklahoma - 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of [1.4 percentage points - (22.6 percent)]
Pennsylvania - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of [.6 percentage points (7.5 percent)]
Tennessee - 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of [1.6 percentage points(16.8 percent)]
Wisconsin - 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of [0.9 percentage points (11.9 percent)]
Wyoming - 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of [1.1 percentage points (17.5 percent)]
Alabama - 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of [1.9 percentage points (20.4 percent)]
Georgia - 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of [1.2 percentage points (11.9 percent)]
South Carolina - 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of [1.5 percentage points (14.2 percent)]
South Dakota - 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of [0.7 percentage points (14 percent)]
Florida - 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of [2.3 percentage points (21 percent)]
Nevada - 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of [2.2 percentage points (15.9 percent)]
Iowa - 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of [1.0 percentage points (16.4 percent)]
Ohio - 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of [1.7 percentage points (18.9 percent)]



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This was not the case for states that elected Democrats in 2010. For instance, the unemployment rate in New York actually went up. On average, states that elected Republican governors in 2010 saw their unemployment rates decrease at a faster clip than states that elected Democrats and the unemployment rate at the national level did.

This is yet another example of how the so-called "blue state" model is not working.

*an earlier version of this article incorrectly relied on an analysis that mistook a decline in percentage points for a percent decline.

Unemployment Rate Dropped In Every State That Elected A Republican Gov. In 2010

 

[WJW]

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor——he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation——he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city——he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared...."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.E.

. . .

These "Tea Party" activists are simpletons: they are always bringing up the "founding fathers" and the Constitution - as if any of them ever read the Constitution, much less understand its provisions for the foundation of our government. "We want our country back!" they cry. It’s laughable. They are like the evangelical Christians that misquote the gospels and ask, insipidly: "What would Jesus do?" They are stooges and shills for those who would use them to their own cross-purposes - those who would undermine the very foundations of our democratic institutions. There are some that believe they have the right to take up arms against their lawfully constituted government! They are not patriots, they are not loyal citizens, they are subversives.

 

[TenPenny]

The logical conclusion is that having Obama as pres, with Republicans running the states, is a good thing.

 

[Walter]

The logical conclusion is that having Obama as pres, with Republicans running the states, is a good thing.

The logical conclusion is that all states would do well under a conservative president.

 

[WJW]

No, that's certainly not true - and, surely, you know that. If you want things run your way, you need to convince the electorate of you point of view. And, even then, it will not likely be enacted into law.

 

[TenPenny]

The logical conclusion is that all states would do well under a conservative president.

How can you draw that conclusion from reports that show that those states did well under Obama?

 

[coldstream]

An ascendany of Tea Party policies... regressive libertarianism.. would be the death knell of the American economy.

Essentially they've had a tepid version of that in every President, Republican and Democrat, since Lyndon Johnson, and it has produce a slow evisceration of the American industrial economy.

The truth is there are no real differences now between the two parties on the key issues of Free Trade and monetarism, deregulation, privatization, regressive taxation.. that have destroyed the economic potential of the U.S.. and that of the rest of the developed world.

And i wouldn't trust these 'Unemployment' figures.. they in no way reflect the real distress, the loss of quality jobs, the underemployed, the polarization wealth, the loss of the middle class, the vast expansion of poverty that now characterizes the economy.

And there is nothing on the horizon that will reverse it, short of an inevitable complete economic collapse.

 

[Walter]

How can you draw that conclusion from reports that show that those states did well under Obama?

Because under Reagan all states had turned themselves around by the end of his first term.

 

[L Gilbert]

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor——he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation——he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city——he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared...."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.E.

. . .

These "Tea Party" activists are simpletons: they are always bringing up the "founding fathers" and the Constitution - as if any of them ever read the Constitution, much less understand its provisions for the foundation of our government. "We want our country back!" they cry. It’s laughable. They are like the evangelical Christians that misquote the gospels and ask, insipidly: "What would Jesus do?" They are stooges and shills for those who would use them to their own cross-purposes - those who would undermine the very foundations of our democratic institutions. There are some that believe they have the right to take up arms against their lawfully constituted government! They are not patriots, they are not loyal citizens, they are subversives.

Yeah, those subversives are a nasty lot. People like Galileo Galilei getting the religious world all pissed off, a dude named Wael Ghonim (among a few others) writing stories about Egypt's Mubarek sparked a rebellion, Patrick Henry, John Adams, and george Washington (et al) pissed off the Brits and sparked the American Independence, etc.
Good thing there are some people around that rock the status quo boats.

 

[TenPenny]

Because under Reagan all states had turned themselves around by the end of his first term.

Which has nothing to do with anything in this thread.

You might want to look at the calendar and see what year it is, unless you're living with Alzheimers, in which case you're right where you need to be.

 

[Kreskin]

It appears to be another silly attempt to present statistical hocus pocus. Unemployment rates have fallen in just about every US state.

 

[Locutus]

In related news:

Nine of The Ten Top Business-Friendly States Are Led By GOP Governors…


As if we need any more proof that reckless spending and high taxes impede economic growth, CNBC’s new survey, America’s Top State for Business, is another indictment of progressive economic policy. The survey finds that Texas – for the third time in five years — is the most accommodating state for business. And it’s no mystery why.

We already knew that Texas, which, over the years has instituted a number of free-market economic reforms, leads the nation in net creation of jobs with 410,400 between May 2007 and May 2012. In the meantime, 41 states have yet to reach their pre-recession job levels. California, for instance, has lost 891,200 since the recession started in 2007.

You’ll also notice similarities between states that rank high on the CNBC list — namely that most of the leadership in those states supports economic policies that mirror the national Republican platform.

Here are the top 20 most-friendly business states according to CNBC:

1.Texas
2.Utah
3.Virginia
4.North Carolina
5.North Dakota
6.Nebraska
7.South Dakota
8.Colorado
9.Georgia
10.Wyoming
11.Minnesota
12.Iowa
13.Idaho
14.Indiana
15.Kansas
16.Tennessee
17.Wisconsin
18.Oregon
19.New Hampshire
20.Arkansas

Seven out of the 10 states featured in the top 10 have both Republican governors and legislatures. By contrast, within the bottom dwellers, six of 10 have Democrat monopolies on state government.

The top 10 features two Democrat governors — and John Hickenlooper of Colorado, it should be noted, is about as business friendly as any politician can be in today’s Democratic Party. In the top 20, there are only five Democratic governors.

It would be too simplistic to make a snap judgment about states because they happen to have Republican leadership. It is indisputable, however, that most of the top states that occupy the top of the list feature lower tax burdens, little union power, and bureaucratic regimes that are less inclined to get in the way of economic growth.

Here are the bottom 10 states:

40.California
41.New Jersey
42.Louisiana
43.Delaware
44.Connecticut
45.Nevada
46.Mississippi
47.Alaska
48.West Virginia
49.Hawaii
50.Rhode Island

CNBC compiles the list using 51 criteria — developed with the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Competitiveness. It doesn’t only weigh factors that some perceive as ugly capitalistic ventures (deregulation, for instance). The CNBC survey also takes into account quality of life, infrastructure, transportation, education and other issues that are supposedly neglected by Republicans governors who adhere to fiscal conservative policies. Hardly.

(Updated to reflect that there are two, not one, Democratic governors in top ten.)


Republican governors dominate 'America

 

[Tonington]

Because under Reagan all states had turned themselves around by the end of his first term.

Link?

 

[Walter]

Which has nothing to do with anything in this thread.

You might want to look at the calendar and see what year it is, unless you're living with Alzheimers, in which case you're right where you need to be.

The great thing about Alzheimers is that every one you meet is someone new.

Link?

The U.S. Recession of 1980-1982
The U.S. Recession of 1980-1982

 

[Tonington]

The great thing about Alzheimers is that every one you meet is someone new.

The U.S. Recession of 1980-1982
The U.S. Recession of 1980-1982

Do you have Alzheimers, because if you think that is supporting your statement then you must have forgotten what you said...

 

[L Gilbert]

lmao

 

[Bar Sinister]

Just another example of selective use of data. Just for the fun of it let's stick Democrat-controlled California into the mix - unemployment there dropped as well, as it did in Democrat-controlled Washington. In fact over-all unemployment in the US is down from a year ago. If you want to find a really glaring stat you have to go back to the sudden increase in unemployment in 2008 when J.W. Bush was in charge. After peaking in 2009 there has been a slow but steady decline in overall US unemployment.

 

[Praxius]

The logical conclusion is that all states would do well under a conservative president.

Since the global recession, the unemployment in the US and the crap that led up to it all occurred when Bush was in office, that makes a load of sense.

Real logical indeed. :roll:

Bush and his group creates the problem, Obama has the buck passed to him to fix the problem.... and he gets all the blame as well while everybody preaches on about how great the Republicans are, completely forgetting who was in office when the sh*t hit the fan in the first place.

Love how that works.

 

[Walter]

Since the global recession, the unemployment in the US and the crap that led up to it all occurred when Bush was in office, that makes a load of sense.

Real logical indeed. :roll:

Bush and his group creates the problem, Obama has the buck passed to him to fix the problem.... and he gets all the blame as well while everybody preaches on about how great the Republicans are, completely forgetting who was in office when the sh*t hit the fan in the first place.

Love how that works.

Bush was never a conservative and the root of the 2008 debacle is traced all the way back to the 70's and Carter; you can look it up.

Do you have Alzheimers, because if you think that is supporting your statement then you must have forgotten what you said...

Another nice thing about Alzheimers is that you meet new people every time you sit down for breakfast.

 

[JLM]

In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus on fiscal issues, 17 states elected Republican governors. And, according to an Examiner.com analysis, every one of those states saw a drop in their unemployment rates since January of 2011. Since January of 2011, here is how much the unemployment rate declined in each of the 17 states that elected Republican governors in 2010, according to theExaminer:

Kansas - 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8 [percentage points (11.6 percent)]
Maine - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6 [percentage points (7.5 percent)]
Michigan - 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of [2.4 percentage points (22 percent)]
New Mexico - 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of [1.0 percentage points (13 percent)]
Oklahoma - 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of [1.4 percentage points - (22.6 percent)]
Pennsylvania - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of [.6 percentage points (7.5 percent)]
Tennessee - 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of [1.6 percentage points(16.8 percent)]
Wisconsin - 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of [0.9 percentage points (11.9 percent)]
Wyoming - 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of [1.1 percentage points (17.5 percent)]
Alabama - 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of [1.9 percentage points (20.4 percent)]
Georgia - 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of [1.2 percentage points (11.9 percent)]
South Carolina - 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of [1.5 percentage points (14.2 percent)]
South Dakota - 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of [0.7 percentage points (14 percent)]
Florida - 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of [2.3 percentage points (21 percent)]
Nevada - 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of [2.2 percentage points (15.9 percent)]
Iowa - 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of [1.0 percentage points (16.4 percent)]
Ohio - 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of [1.7 percentage points (18.9 percent)]




​

This was not the case for states that elected Democrats in 2010. For instance, the unemployment rate in New York actually went up. On average, states that elected Republican governors in 2010 saw their unemployment rates decrease at a faster clip than states that elected Democrats and the unemployment rate at the national level did.

This is yet another example of how the so-called "blue state" model is not working.

*an earlier version of this article incorrectly relied on an analysis that mistook a decline in percentage points for a percent decline.

Unemployment Rate Dropped In Every State That Elected A Republican Gov. In 2010

That probably makes sense- the Rebubicans may be more about working while Democrats are more about programs! A lot of the Republican States, the interior and mid west are more labour intensive, I think.