Romney Promises an Unemployment rate of 6%

[WI_DEM]

Mitt Romney told Mark Halperin that if he's elected president "we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower."

However, just a few weeks ago, as NBC News reported, Romney said that anything "over 4% is not cause for celebration."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/23/romney_promises_unemployment_rate_of_6.html

Considering that Obama has gotten the Unemployment rate down from a high of 10.2% to about 8.1% it is probable if the recovery holds the Unemployment rate would eventually drop to about 6%.

[JoePhilly]

1. Mitt's already changing his numbers. They weren't the right height.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Give him time and he'll be back to his other numbers.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. But no pony? No deal.

He has to do better than that.

[rfranklin]

3. We he promise to commit seppuku if he fails?

No, I didn't think so.


Seppuku is the ritual suicide by disembowelment.

[cthulu2016]

5. re: "anything over 4%"

One really does have to start wondering whether Romney is dumb.

4% is below the "full employment" rate in our current economy, meaning that4% unemployment would be inflationary.

That may be good or not good but I doubt Rmoney would say that an inflationary unemployment rate is desirable.

[dkf]

11. 5% was achieved through a real estate driven bubble economy

I don't think we would like to go through that again.

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Let me finish ...

Romney's statement:

Mitt Romney told Mark Halperin that if he's elected president "we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower ... before my policies take affect and sky-rocket the unemployment rate right back to 10.2%, or higher. The markets require high unemployment to force wages even lower."

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Will it really take a 2 or 3 million people to park his cars, mow his lawns, and

dust the furniture in his many houses.

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[JoePhilly]

23. He can use a few humdred people to pull the ropes, that raise and lower

his car elevators.

[Life Long Dem]

8. Yeah

Now that we got the car out of the ditch, it's the wrong time to hand it over to them to do the same thing again come our turn again.

[Politicalboi]

10. Do slave workers count

It will be that low because there will be NO more unemployment benefits. Either work for $3.00 an hour or get nothing. I can see it now.

[Hutzpa]

12. Is That It??

did he say how he plan to achieve this? especially knowing that he speaks from both side of his
mouth it is a must to find out how he plans to achieve 6% unemployment.

[Zanzoobar]

13. Don't forget one thing. Plenty of body bags.

[Initech]

14. On airport CNN that story was immediately followed with:

"HP to cut work force by 7% - up to 25,000 jobs are going to be cut."

Hey our brainless media - I'm getting mixed signals here.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. At $1.75 an hour.

[SunsetDreams]

16. Romney Pledges 6% Unemployment – Exactly What CBO Already Projects

Mitt Romney, who often chides President Obama for presiding over unenployment rates above 8%, told TIME that he would get that number down to 6% as president.

Oddly enough, that’s almost exactly where the Congressional Budget Office predicts unemployment will be at the end of the next presidential term. While hardly the most reliable number this far out, CBO’s latest report sees unemployment dropping to the low-sixes in 2016 en route to about 5.5% unemployment by the end of 2017.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-pledges-6-unemployment-exactly-what-cbo-already

[CakeGrrl]

17. Did he say HOW? Or just throw out pretty numbers to sound good?

What will it take for people to learn to NOT fall for this b.s.?

[Arkana]

18. No no no, Mittens.

You said anything over 4% was unacceptable. Nice try.

[cbdo2007]

19. Repubes always told me "it's not the President's job to create jobs" when Obama and Gore ran...

[littlewolf]

22. that was then ... this is now .... of course /S nt

[SoutherDem]

20. How and by When?

I ANY news organization asking Romney any real questions?

[HopeHoops]

21. Where - in China?

[EC]

24. Yeah,

Many states are already there, so it won't be too much longer. He projects where it is already heading and says that he's going to get it there....pretty safe bet.

[LiberalEsto]

25. ...so he can have the fun of laying them off by the thousands

What other possible reason would rMoney have for wanting 6% unemploymenty?