Hillary Clinton, doing her no-bull, forceful leader number, tells an audience:
Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.
The aggressive tone and inelegant phrasing are meant, one supposes, to convey authenticity, which has never been Mrs. Clinton’s strength as a campaigner. No news there.
But what of the content – such as it is – of the remark? Mrs. Clinton could be forgiven for thinking that corporations and businesses exist solely to provide big paydays for politically connected guest speakers. But then, who does create jobs in the Clinton universe? If, that is, any jobs are being created.
Well, maybe she should look to Texas. Where, as this AEI report shows:
1.32 million new jobs [have been] added since the start of the Great Recession, compared to a net deficit of almost one million jobs for the other 49 states combined … The country, the president, and all of us individually owe a huge debt of gratitude to the state of Texas and to the oil and gas industry for helping support the US economy during and after the Great Recession. Without the energy-driven economic stimulus from the fracking revolution, and without the gusher of jobs in the state of Texas, there’s no question that the Great Recession would have been much worse and lasted much longer, and the jobs picture today would be much bleaker.
But don’t let anyone tell you so.
