Heck of a promise there, Mitt ol' boy
Dec. 26th, 2011 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayne"What I can promise you is this -- when you get out of college, if I'm president you'll have a job. If President Obama is reelected, you will not be able to get a job."
— Mitt Romney to a New Hampshire college student
The problem is fairly simple. The best way to grow an economy and add jobs is increased manufacturing, and we don't do that very much any more. We have a jobless recovery: employers found that they could do as much or more with fewer staff, and now they have little incentive to add positions if there's no direct promise of increased sales/profit.
— Mitt Romney to a New Hampshire college student
The problem is fairly simple. The best way to grow an economy and add jobs is increased manufacturing, and we don't do that very much any more. We have a jobless recovery: employers found that they could do as much or more with fewer staff, and now they have little incentive to add positions if there's no direct promise of increased sales/profit.
