Romney Press Conference On Economic Stimulus Vetoes (6/24/06)

Romney Said It Was "Silly" To Suggest Job Growth Turn Around The Day He Got Elected Governor


Transcript: "You guys are bright enough to look at the numbers. I came in and the jobs had been just falling right off a cliff, I came in and they kept falling for 11 months. And then we turned around and we're coming back and that's progress. And if you are going to suggest to me that somehow the day I got elected, somehow jobs should have immediately turned around, well that would be silly. It takes awhile to get things turned around. We were in a recession, we were losing jobs every month. We've turned around and since the turnaround we've added 50,000 jobs. That's progress. And there will be some people who try and say, 'well Governor, net-net, you've only added a few thousand jobs since you've been in.' Yeah but I helped stop, I didn't do it alone, the economy is a big part of that, the private sector's what drives that -- up and down -- But we were in free fall for three years. And the last year that I happened to be here, and then we turned it around, as a state, private sector, government sector, turned it around. And now we're adding jobs. We wanna keep that going, to the extent we can. We're the, you know, we're one part of that equation, but not the whole equation. A lot of it is outside of our control, it's federal, it's international, it's private sector. But I'm very pleased that over the last a 2, 2 and a half, years we've seen pretty consistent job growth. 50,000 new jobs created, some great companies, we just had, last week, Samsonite announced their headquarters moving here. Companies outside Massachusetts moving in to Massachusetts. That kind of commitment, that kind of decision, says something about what they feel about the future of our state."

[Romney Press Conference On Economic Stimulus Vetoes, 6/24/06; MA Archives, GO11 10 Tape No. 13]

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[kindlethumper]

Thanks be to any and all Dietie(s) that Willard Romney will be gone after this Tuesday.

[holdem300]

Obama had TWO years where the house was democrat controlled and the Senate was democrat controlled. He didnt have to ask republicans FOR ANYTHING because he could bypass them anytime he wanted, and you know what he did. Obamacare, which the surpreme court ruled was the largest TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY.

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[TheTruthHurts9999]

Thankyou Mitt Romney for your endorsement and validation of Obama on the jobs front.

[manchrisss]

He just doesn't know it yet.

[Kandimann]

Why isn't this an Obama commercial?