“The late Steve Jobs — what a fitting name he had — created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the president borrowed and blew.”
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels — the guy every republican who is having buyers remorse with regard to the current crop of candidates in the GOP goat rodeo would like to see run for President — in his State of the Union rebuttal for the GOP the other day .
And which is, of course, a huge fucking lie.
Apple directly employs just 43,000 people in the entire United States — which is what Microsoft employs locally here in the Puget Sound region.
And although Apple is indirectly responsible for the employment of around 700,000 people who work for its various suppliers — almost every one of those people are employed in China and elsewhere around the Asian side of the Pacific Rim.
While the government bailout money used for the U.S. auto industry, for instance {and that Daniels opposed}, managed to bring the unemployment rate in the state of Michigan alone down from a soul crushing 14+ percent to a merely awful 9 percent.
But then, Daniels isn’t just a liar, because its important to recall that it was Mitch Daniels, in his position as George W. Bush’s Director of Management and Budget, who with his economic initiatives and his support for the elimination of regulations on the banking industry was as responsible as any single person in America for the catastrophic economic conditions we are all currently living through and have been for the past 4+ years.
So if lying about how Apple “creates” jobs in America when they actually don’t, and how Barack Obama wasted billions on the auto industry bailout {a bailout that actually helped} keeps the public eye off of Daniels’ and the republican’s guilt in fucking up our country, well, then I guess what he said the other day makes total fucking sense.
