Economy has worsened for Hispanics under Obama, Romney says
by George Bennett | June 21st, 2012LAKE BUENA VISTA — As presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney prepares to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference here today, his campaign is noting that unemployment has risen for Hispanics since candidate Barack Obama addressed the group in 2008.
Obama addresses the same group Friday. Other notable speakers at the NALEO conference include former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush this afternoon and Sen. Marco Rubio on Friday.
Romney’s focus on the economy comes amid renewed interest in his immigration stance after Obama last week issued a directive halting the deportation threat for an estimated 800,000 younger illegal immigrants whose parents brought them to the U.S. when they were children.
Obama’s policy has been popular with Hispanics while Romney’s hard-line stance on immigration in the Republican primaries was not.
But the Romney camp argues that Latinos care about more than immigration.
Hispanic unemployment stood at 10 percent in January 2009, when Obama was sworn in, compared to an overall national rate of 7.8 percent at the time. In May, overall unemployment was 8.2 percent while the Hispanic jobless rate was 11 percent.
“It’s been four years since President Obama last addressed the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, and it’s clear why the President hasn’t rushed back. President Obama’s failed economic policies have left millions of Hispanics unemployed and in poverty. From Day One, Mitt Romney will enact policies that get our economy moving again for Hispanics and all Americans,” said Romney campaign adviser Alberto Martinez today.
June 21st, 2012 at 11:09 am
Everyone knows that the economy was going downhill before W left office. This was due to both D’s and R’s deregulating the financial industry so the banks and Wall Street could do anything they want. Obama inherited this economy and has attempted to bring it back but hasn’t done enough. The R’s have done everything to stop Obama from doing anything without offering any alternative because they will do anything to get rid of Obama. Romney and the rest of the R’s along with some D’s do nothing but complain. In the case of the R’s, their party platform trumps everything else and they really don’t care about the USA. Romney is a joke and has very poor judgement. The fact that Romney let his poor dog ride on the roof of his car shows more than a little lack of good sense. Besides giving more tax breaks to the rich and corporate America, what else does the GOP stand for? Certainly nothing that will in anyway help the working class. The economy sucks and the GOP has done absolutely NOTHING BUT MAKE IT EVEN WORSE! So please, the GOP can take its stale old propaganda and shove it! Tell us what your going to actually do rather than use the same old tired (Obama is the bad guy) endless drivel while offering no solutions except for more tax breaks for the rich!
June 21st, 2012 at 12:14 pm
So let me get this straight: A Republican President with an entirely Democrat Congress (elected in 2006) is solely to blame for the Recession, but a Democrat President, with a filibuster-proof Democrat Congress for 2 years, is not responsible for a failed recovery because of a GOP House for a year and a half? You’re delusional.
Face it – Dr. Obama and Nurse Nancy’s cure isn’t working, and aside from writing a check to the states to hire more “teachers, cops and firemen” (which is a state & local issue to begin with), they have no other plan to grow the economy.
June 21st, 2012 at 12:23 pm
“A Republican President with an entirely Democrat Congress (elected in 2006) is solely to blame for the Recession”
No.
A Republican President with an entirely REPUBLICAN Congress (2001-2006) (plus Alan Greenspan’s lust for economic bubbles) is solely to blame for the Recession.
But hey… We know that Irish Mike has a long record of lying. It is pathological at this point. Party over country. Enough is enough, VOTE DEMOCRATIC IN NOVEMBER. The only party with any sort of rational plan to combat Republican efforts to eliminate the middle class, eliminate New Deal programs, eliminate unions, subjugate working people, and turn America into an oligarchy (a country controlled exclusively by the wealthy). They’ve had a head start and have been hard at it since Reagan. BUT IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO VOTE THEM OUT AND REPLACE THEM WITH TRUE PUBLIC SERVANTS IN THE DEM PARTY.
June 21st, 2012 at 12:53 pm
First – I always post in my own name, so as not to deceive people with multiple identities. Second – I offer opinion supported by facts, and while we may disagree, calling a difference of opinion a lie is evidence of a closed mind.
I disagree with the Democrat/Obama solution of tax (always “others”) and spend. I think Democrats are deceiving people in believing that we can get more things now, be they teachers, cops and firemen or “strengthening the middle class” (whatever that means) by only taxing “the rich”. The Federal Government ought to set its spending priorities based on its current income ($3.2 trillion), or argue that everyone should pay more (good luck running on that platform).
JFK said a rising tide lifts all boats, and I believe government is an anchor. Every boat needs an anchor for stability, but you can’t deny it slows you down, and as far as I’m concerned, we’re stuck in port, and you’re arguing to increase the size of our anchor.
June 21st, 2012 at 1:23 pm
I think we’ve hit the source of your problem Mike. You don’t know what a fact is.
For starters, if you were at all honest, you would admit that the 30-year “starve the beast” plan of the GOP is aimed at eviscerating the middle class.
We will never get an honest response from you on that topic.
June 21st, 2012 at 4:02 pm
I am sure if we look up “Irish Mike” in the phone book, we will be able to find him! Hah, so much for so called honesty about who he is. The only thing that the GOP knows how to do is give lots and lots of corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks for the rich and corporate America. They also continue to push this “trickle down economics” nonsense which HAS NEVER WORKED!
Although it is off topic, I’d like to mention that Bu$h and his co-conspirators were given seven warnings before 9/11 that Osama was planning an attack on the US using airplanes and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to try to stop it. Republicans are incompetent and Bu$h, Dickey and CondaLIEza should be in jail for this. Romney is just another incompetent!
June 21st, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Irish Mike can be pleased that he is your typical Republican. Firefighters, policemen/women and teachers provide a vital service to this country, a more valuable service than most Republican politicians. It’s the some ole, same ole with Republicans. Firefighters, Police and Teachers are bad, bankers, wall street investors and CEO’s are good. Fortunately we can’t live without the former but the latter, we CAN LIVE WITHOUT!
June 21st, 2012 at 5:24 pm
0 bama’s Achilles heel appears to be himself and his actions. Why don’t his handler’s rein him in?
A cancer will consume all, squelching the nutrient host: then lose it’s foundation for further growth, is that the “plan” here?
June 22nd, 2012 at 6:44 am
The GOP is a cancer that is killing America.
June 22nd, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Fact- Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House from 2007-2011. Fact – Harry Reid has been Majority Leader of the Senate at all times since 2007. Fact- Unemployment is currently 8.2%. Fact – millions of people have dropped out of the workforce since Obama took office; had they not, the unemployment rate would be substantially higher.Fact – 387,000 people filed first time unemployment claims last week (June,2012′ 3 11/2 years after George W. Bush officially left office, and 3 years after the Stimulus).
Opinion (based on facts) – Whatever we’ve been doing since 2007 isn’t working.
June 22nd, 2012 at 11:05 pm
The unemployment rate is so high because W and his crew of criminals deregulated the banks and Wall Street which led to the worst economic disaster since the great depression. Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate and let corporate America do what ever it wants. Privatize everything because government is bad and corporations are good and now corporations are PEOPLE TOO! This is the mantra of the GOP/Teabagger party. Everything for the wealthy and corporate America and throw a few scraps to the peons (working class) every now and than. Destroy the middle class and make America a country ONLY FOR THE RICH! The GOP IS DELUSHIONAL if it thinks it can fool all of the people all of the time! It HAS NEVER FOOLED ME!