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Old 08-08-2012, 03:19 PM   #2189
molson
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Originally Posted by JPhillips View Post
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What does have to do with job creation (that's relevant to a presidential campaign)? What was the basis of say, Joe Biden's early 2010 promise that "some time in the next couple of months, we’re going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month.” Meanwhile, Romney's criticizing Obama for "not creating jobs", which I suppose is only fair when Obama and Biden campaigned on creating jobs (and Romney's also claiming that HE can create jobs as president). But what does a president do to create jobs, and what went wrong for Obama in that regard? All I can tell for sure is both Romney and Obama seem to think "number of jobs created" is a really critical metric, and they'll both increase that number somehow.

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