"Bobby" Jindal on Mourning Jo: The economy is NOT better off than it was three years ago...

[PCIntern]

I'm considering moving to Mars.

I can't take the lies for another 5 months...

[hobbit709]

1. Partially true.

I know of a lot of people who are not better off.

Some parts of the conomy are doing fine but a lot of the people near the bottom are not. Of course the 1% are doing great.

[HiPointDem]

5. partially? unemployment is still higher than it's been in all but 3 years since 1950, not counting

the present 3+-year stretch.

[uponit7771]

12. The facts support the economy doing better and not worse....the facts

[HiPointDem]

14. yes, 8.1 is better than 10.1.

[WI_DEM]

15. Are the banks on the edge of collapse? are we losing 750,000 jobs per month?

[HiPointDem]

2. sure isn't in louisiana, where h-2b visa holders work 24-hour days.

June 20, 2012 (New York, NY) on Wednesday, members of my organization National Action Network and I met with eight Mexican guestworkers who went on strike on June 4th in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana to expose forced labor at a crawfish plant called CJ’s Seafood.

The workers described shocking conditions. According to strike leader Ana Rosa Diaz supervisors at CJ’s forced them to work up to 24-hour shifts with no overtime pay, locked them in the plant, and threatened to beat them. Ana recounted that CJ’s owners threatened to hurt their families in Mexico if workers organized.


http://www.guestworkeralliance.org/


NEW ORLEANS, LA—Walmart supplier C.J.’s Seafood has subjected 40 Mexican guestworkers on H-2B visas to forced labor, wage and hour violations, and discrimination, according to a worker complaint to the Department of Labor to be filed on Thursday, June 6. The workers will detail their charges and call on Walmart to eliminate forced labor among its seafood suppliers at a press conference at a New Orleans-area Sam’s Club at on June 6.

A group of workers went on strike from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana-based C.J.’s Seafood on June 4, reporting that the employer and supervisors have forced them to work up to 24-hour shifts with no overtime pay, locked them in the plant, threatened them with beatings to make them work faster, and threatened violence against their families back in Mexico after workers contacted law enforcement out of desperation.

http://www.jwj.org/tags/walmart

[bongbong]

7. Invalid data point

Slaves are always worked as hard as they can be, whether it is 1860 Dixie or 2012 Dixie.

[HiPointDem]

8. slaves didn't even work 24-hour days during slave days.

[Gman]

3. You mean they're taking the lid off the box

And letting him out again after he embarrassed himself and the GOP so badly?

Money for monitoring volcanos? Horrors! A few days later the Iceland volcano blows up and he looks like a complete ass.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. UE rate is down

Not where it needs to be of course but its 2% better than it was and jobs have pretty consistently been added and many jobs were saved b/c of the bailouts/stimulus. Many of our so-called "job creators" are reaping healthy profits though creating few jobs. Is Jindal trying to "talk down" the economy too, even in the swing states run by his fellow Republican governors?

[HiPointDem]

6. yeah, it's down from 10%. it's still been over 7.8% for more than 3 years, the longest such

stretch of high UE since the great depression.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country:US&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment+rate+us

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I'm not arguing that things are rosy

but they are arguably better than they were/would have been without the stimulus. At any rate, it should be pretty obvious who is holding the economy back and it ain't President Obama.

[CTyankee]

9. I muted the entire segment and buried myself in the NYT so I didn't even have to look at him.

I got thru Krugman's column and the NYT review of the latest Woody Allen movie "To Rome with Love" (which I am SO going to see).

I find that, as this campaign season moves forward, the mute button is my best friend. I nearly wore it out muting the incessant Linda McMahon commercials in 2010 but it's still going strong...

[BeyondGeography]

11. I was better off three years ago but the clock was ticking

There was a reckoning after '08, but many businesses were in something resembling wait-and-see mode three years ago. They may have given some divisions a chance, and once the pattern continued in 2010 they lowered the boom.

That's what happened to me anyway. I knew the shoe was going to drop and it dropped. Now we're running so lean that if they eliminate my position, half of the revenue in my little group would be threatened. I'm making less, working more but I'm more entrenched than when I was making more and working less. Wouldn't surprise me if I have some company out there in America and if others find the traditional approach to, "are you better off now" irrelevant, especially when you factor in the inevitable crash of home prices, which were not supported by income to begin with. Many people understand that their world has changed fundamentally.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. Jindal, ever the compliant GOP lapdog, follows Rmoney campaign request to...

...downplay improving economic conditions.
If Rmoney campaign asked Scott, I'm sure it approached all the others.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101735869