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Actually, it looks like it wasn't as bad as you think. In fact, some would say he did a rather impressive job, first at stopping the spectacular volume of job losses, then at creating new jobs. Check this out.
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts went down due to a net loss of it's citizenry of over 221,000 documented by the Census Bureau - not job creation.
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts went down due to a net loss of it's citizenry of over 221,000 documented by the Census Bureau - not job creation.
There's nothing impressive about Romney.
I never said anything about the unemployment rate. As evidenced by the machinations of President Obama's administration, that's a stat that can easily be manipulated. I referenced job creation, in keeping with the subject of the thread. Did you read the article? Here's a particularly relevant segment;
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between January 2003 and December 2006, Massachusetts was one of seventeen states to accelerate its job growth every year (creating more jobs each year than were created the year before), and one of only two states — Illinois being the other — to accelerate its job growth by at least 20,000 jobs each year. Massachusetts was one of the top ten most-improved states (seventh overall) in terms of job creation, going from 49th in the nation in the first year of the Romney Administration to 36th in the nation in the last year.
So, while the state was losing over 221,000 citizens, it was also gaining more jobs each year than the previous one.
I never said anything about the unemployment rate. As evidenced by the machinations of President Obama's administration, that's a stat that can easily be manipulated. I referenced job creation, in keeping with the subject of the thread. Did you read the article? Here's a particularly relevant segment;
So, while the state was losing over 221,000 citizens, it was also gaining more jobs each year than the previous one.
Yes, I read it.
Massachusetts’ employment rate — the percentage of the population actually in jobs — did grow 1.5 percent, but that was fourth-worst in the country, behind the two Hurricane Katrina states and Michigan.
Almost every State in the Union did better and had 5 times the growth. Even Romney himself blames his failure on the Dems while his supporters do what he dare not...trumpet success.
At the end of 2002, just before Romney entered office, there were 338,000 manufacturing jobs in the state. By the time he left, there were 298,000, a drop of 12 percent, according to federal data.
Only an exodus of the citizens helped stem the tide...222,000 folks leaving will do that.
You should call this things liberals would like Romney to not mention.
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