Mitch Daniels hands the president a win [View all]

[kpete]

Mitch Daniels hands the president a win
Daniels: "The late Steve Jobs — what a fitting name he had — created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the president borrowed and blew."


It would be nice if Republicans -- candidates and the rest -- could get their facts straight. Mitch Daniels committed a serious blooper during his response to the State of the Union speech. In doing so, he killed the Republicans' effort to hang Obama with the auto industry bailout.

Paul Krugman picks up on the blooper.

Mr. Daniels tried to wrap his party in the mantle of the late Steve Jobs, whom he portrayed as a great job creator — which is one thing that Jobs definitely wasn’t. And if we ask why Apple has created so few American jobs, we get an insight into what is wrong with the ideology dominating much of our politics. ...Paul Krugman, NYT

................

Although Apple is now America’s biggest U.S. corporation as measured by market value, it employs only 43,000 people in the United States, a tenth as many as General Motors employed when it was the largest American firm.

Apple does, however, indirectly employ around 700,000 people in its various suppliers. Unfortunately, almost none of those people are in America. ...Paul Krugman, NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/krugman-jobs-jobs-and-cars.html?_r=1&hp

http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2012/01/mitch-daniels-hands-the-president-a-win.html