Here’s a fun activity, perform a Google search on “Obama focused like a laser on jobs.”
You’ll quickly find that he (or his surrogates) has used the line just as much as his go-to compliment toward other countries. But has he really delivered? There’s a reason the talking point “we’re in a jobless recovery,” continues to make the rounds.
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But fear not, the Obama re-election campaign has put forth the most transparent jobs plan coming from the organized Left in three years. On Thursday, Obama camp blogger Mary Hough promoted the Build This Campaign initiative that is sure to help tackle unemployment and diversify the occupational skills that Generation Y very much needs. Hough writes:
“Hiring an organizer costs $32,000—and each additional organizer means we can register hundreds more voters and speak to hundreds more supporters….As we come up on this weekend’s critical fundraising deadline, will you pitch in $3 or whatever you can afford to bring on even more? It’s organizers, working with volunteers, who will make this the most effective grassroots campaign in history.”
Hough has since shared the wonderful news that 45 organizers were budgeted for Friday, and 23 today.
While the promise of 146 new jobs in this tough economy could be seen as a good thing, a word of warning to you new “organizers” out there. If this is your first job in the “real world,” and you think it will jumpstart your career, keep dreaming. There is nothing real about it. Just because you’re getting paid to sign up voters, hand out flyers, scream at rallies and troll comment boards – don’t kid yourself into thinking that the job market will value this experience after November.
Washington probably will not either. Too many 2008 cycle Obama campaign staffers (read: paid organizers) flooded DC after the election with the hopes of working in the West Wing. Too many went back to their parent’s couches after a couple months. If only we knew how many are now residing in Occupy camps, annoying their commercial neighbors.
As the campaign progresses, it will be interesting to see how many of these “organizers” are hired around the country. If the fundraising keeps up, perhaps the Obama campaign can pat themselves on the back for taking a dent out of the unemployment rate.
