A very good overview of the recession and how Massachusetts under Deval Patrick’s leadership has fared during this economic crisis from Mass Budget over the weekend. Other candidates in the race for governor have built their campaigns based on willful ignorance of the global economic recession and framing their campaigns in distortions of truth. The best way to face these distortions is to shine light on the actual facts over the past few years. How has Massachusetts fared in comparison to the country or other states for that matter. Charlie Baker has recently compared Massachusetts to other New England states. It’s a false comparison, but if he wants to know, Massachusetts has done better:
Commonwealth is somewhat less bleak than that which we see in most of the rest of the nation. While in Massachusetts we have lost 2.8 percent of the jobs that we started the recession with, that is less than half the rate of job loss of the nation as a whole (5.9 percent) – and a better performance than most other states.
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No one is going to argue that due to the recession jobs have been lost and there is work to be done. The question is who is best to lead the state. Governor Patrick over the past few years under an economic crisis has made difficult decisions that has placed the state on the path to a faster recovery. No matter what Charlie Baker’s campaign ads state, the fact of the matter is that Massachusetts fared much better than the rest of the country and New England (that’s right Charlie).
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9 Comments . Comments are closed.Required Reading in times like this!!!
Thanks for getting this report up on BMG.
(It's a little weird typing this under a Steve Lynch I must say, but in times like this we need a reliable source like the Mass Budget and Policy Center.
$quot;required reading$quot;?
Unfortunately, you just lost a sizeable chunk of voters by throwing around words like that! People wouldn't want to cast their votes based on anything as tedious as facts:)
weigh opinion as equal to facts..............
is what most of us do. I admit it.
Nevertheless it's great to have facts to back up your opinion.
Yes, because ALL Republicans are alike.
Why not compare Charlie to Richard Nixon and demagogue how a return of Charlie Baker will bring Richard Nixon like lies and criminals back in power.
You Democrats have to stop trying to link the new Republicans with the old Republicans... we have learned.
But I understand that "winning" is all you care about.
Massachusetts Republicans
Really do not walk in any kind of fashion with the national GOP. But hey, keeping thinking that. Isn't Senator Coakley doing a wonderful job? Oh, she's not in public office anymore? GOOD!
Coakley's still AG...
...and still will be next term. Yes, I know there is a GOPer running a sticker primary, but that's quite the handicap it would seem.
All The Bigger The Upset
Maybe then the pompous democrats in the legislature will wake up and start doing their jobs for the people of the commonwealth, instead of themselves. This thread will become valid in January.
Or not. :)
Tax rollback
Nice to see Deval stealing a page out of the GOP handbook and calling for sales tax reductions. Desperate times call for desparate measure for sure. Devals embrace of conservative fiscal policy is impressive but I wonder if people beleive him? Where is my real estate rebate check he promised way back when? I guess he is making up for that oversight with this sales tax reduction. John Kerry is kicking himself in the butt for not waiting to buy the new yacht once the sales tax is reduced. Oh wait a minute he doesnt even register that boat in Massachusetts, how silly of me.
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