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Are you surprised that Arizona's Republican policies pushed their jobless rate up for 3rd straight month?

How soon before AZ Governor Jan Brewer blames it on the President?

http://www.azfamily.com/news/Arizonas-jobless-rate...

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I don't see you offering any evidence that their policies cause unemployment to go up, I just see you assuming that A caused B. It's as if nobody ever believes that the state of the economy can be whatever it is because of natural phenomenon - it always has to be attributed to some governmental policy. If the economy is good, assume that the government is doing its job right, and if the economy is bad, assume that the government did something wrong. After all, we haven't had a "laissez-faire" relationship between government and the private sector in nearly 100 years.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    How did you determine this was caused by republican policy? Which policies caused this? Let me point to three other states with republican governors. Utah, Nebraska, and south Dakota. Those states all have unemployment rates of 3.6% against the national average of 6.1% therefore I should be able,(using your logic) to credit republican policies for that significant difference and blame democratic policy for the high unemployment rate nationally. Don't you agree?

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    You guys are awfully quick to credit the president any time jobless rates fall, regardless of where it is.

    Let me ask you this, if the jobless rate was dropping in AZ, would you credit the Republican policies or Obama? (spoiler alert: we already know you'd credit Obama)

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    It is a statistical outlier.

    Looking at all 50 States plus D.C.:

    More Democrat : Higher unemployment r=0.49 p=0.00023

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    And which policies are doing that, Greasy? Let's hear you explain which policies are causing it, and how they're causing it and what liberal policies would reverse that.

    Offer something more than your usual shallow intellect fare.

  • 7 years ago

    The job losses were experoienced in leisure and hospitals. Not sure what they mean by leisure but possibly the job losses in the hospitals was because of Obamcare.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Arizona has a serious immigration problem. Try looking at a map.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    No surprise. They just don't seem to be their main objective there. America.

  • 7 years ago

    push the illegals out and the rate will level off.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    But....but.....Obama said he was creating millions of new jobs and unemployment was dropping? Who is lying here?

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