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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Newt Gingrich - Didn't Create Jobs

Former Speaker of the House of Representative, Rep. Newt Gingrich senselessly and relentlessly attacking Governor Mitt Romney's job creating record, arguing that Gov. Romney distorted his record when he was CEO of Bain Capital. He argued that Gov. Romney didn't create hundreds of thousands of jobs as he claimed in Iowa and New Hampshire. However, it is ironic that Gingrich would credit himself for jobs created during his tenure as Speaker of the House of Representative while attacking Gov. Romney's record,  when his part in the whole process is almost nonexistent.
Gov. Romney's record is obvious - he was the CEO of a company that turned around 70+%  of the failed companies they helped rescued. These companies went on to create tens of thousand of jobs. It is fitting for Gov. Romney to generalize the number of jobs created considering the success of these companies. He has all the rights to take credit himself for these companies created because many of them turned to Bain Capital for their survival. On the contrary, Gingrich claimed he created 11 million jobs when he was "Speaker of the House", but how can he lay claim on millions of jobs when he didn't in any way directly involved in the creation of these jobs? As speaker, a political office, he may have created the environment where by jobs are created, but it is a joke to claim he created Jobs in millions and disputing Gov. Romney's jobs creation. Those who created these jobs are small companies, big corporations who who got money to take more people in as employees. If Gingrich claimed jobs created in his term, what is it there for President Clinton who had to inked his signature on legislation that were favorable to the private sector?
It is important to compare orange to orange and apple to apple - in that - it is fair to look at these candidates' direct involvement in these so-called job creation processes. In fact, everyone knows that Gingrich presided over the House of Representative that was "shut-down" as a result of stalled negotiations with Democrat Representatives and  Senators. People lost their paychecks, jobs closed their doors and thousands were hurt! All in order to push the President and Democrats to act on policies the GOP - under the leadership of Gingrich - puts forward. Should Americans who were affected by this move blame Gingrich? He cannot take responsibility for the positive things he did as speaker while ignoring the darker side of his leadership. But we all know it is simply ridiculous to hold him responsible for all that! That is why his criticism of Gov. Romney is being met with severe push by from the conservative leaders.
Gov. Romney worked in the real free-market enterprise and is credited for helping companies that had no leg left to stand on and turned to Bain Capital as the last resort, survive. And it is extremely dishonest for the Newt's PAC to misrepresent Gov. Romney's record. For instance, they accused him of a company that laid off thousands as it went bankrupt, but investigators found that the company was bought by Bain Capital as it was on the brink of bankruptcy, and Bain Capital tried to negotiate the terms for workers in order to save the company but Unions chose to go on strike and essentially paralyzing the operation of the company and went bankrupt. Yet, the Gingrich's PAC blames the whole thing on Gov. Romney. This and many other criticisms were found to be false! 
This is petty politics and Gingrich just demonstrate how bitter his his. He exhibited the truest nature of a lose-canon politicians whose temperament is extremely dangerous for America. 

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