CNN Political Producer: 'We Know There Are a Lot of Businesses Who Have Been on a Hiring Streak'
Today on the 2:00 pm segment of CNN Newsroom, anchor Randi Kaye spoke with CNN political producer Shannon Travis about criticism directed at President Barack Obama:
TRAVIS: Yes, really, really quickly, billionaire Steve Wynn, you've seen his resorts all over Las Vegas. He's blasting President Obama. I'm going to read this quote from a call, an earnings call yesterday. Quote, "I'm saying it bluntly that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime". Those are from Steve Wynn.
We know there are a lot of businesses who have been on a hiring streak, Randi, but this is what Steve Wynn, billionaire real estate mogul in Las Vegas thinks about the Obama administration.
What hiring streak is Travis talking about? CNN Money.com reported last week that initial unemployment claims remained above the 400,000 mark for the 14th straight week. The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted in its June, 2011 report that there are now 14.1 million Americans out of work. The same agency pegged that number at 11.6 for January, 2009, the month Barack Obama took office.
According to a U.S. Chamber of Congress analysis last week, only 19 percent of small-business executives expect to add to their payrolls in the next year. Twelve percent plan on cutting jobs while 62 percent said they're not planning on hiring.
Some in the mainstream media still want to protect Obama, even if it puts whatever little credibility they have left at stake. The more than 14 million Americans who still can't find work after Obama's $800 billion stimulus would love for CNN to identify those many businesses that are on a hiring streak.
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FEDS...
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:02pm.
I think he's referring the Federal Gu'bment as a business. The IRS will hiring gads of people soon.
And unemployment offices around the country will need to start hiring/stimulating extra help... no he got it right - trust him. You just don't see it, 'cause he's the smartest guy in the room.
Don't forget Goldman Sachs,
Submitted by kg on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:52pm.
Don't forget Goldman Sachs, AIG, GE et al.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Double sheesh!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:53pm.
'A lot of businesses who have been on a hiring streak'??? Well, c'mon now, name names.
There are a few businesses with modest hirings . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:18pm.
1. Unemployment agency staffs
2. Soup kitchen personnel
Boeing, in South Carolina
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:27pm.
Boeing, in South Carolina for one. Oh no. Wait. The feds are trying to prevent that...
A lot of businesses hiring?
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:55pm.
Did he name one?
Naming names
Submitted by Mike Bates on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:58pm.
Maybe he's saving them for tomorrow. Should be a boffo show.
No. He can't speak Chinese.
Submitted by kbTexan on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:13pm.
No. He can't speak Chinese.
Locked in
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:06pm.
His one celled solar powered brain is still locked in on Mickey Ds' recent hiring "spree".
Another "we know that..." Democrat mythmaking moment...
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:06pm.
A guy on the corner said to the cab driver who mentioned it to the clerk at the drive-through who mentioned it to a bartender who mentioned it to his third cousin four times removed who said it to a janitor at CNN who mentioned it while getting coffee this morning. See how Democrat economic analysis works?
CNN is talking about firing
Submitted by jdhawk on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:08pm.
CNN is talking about firing not hiring (note the subtle difference in the spelling - anyone could be confused).
In regard to firing, Cisco announced the shedding of 10,000 jobs and has succeeded in shedding 6500 jobs so far. GE has shed tens of thousands of jobs since the recession began, but has added thousands of jobs overseas. Did I mention they paid no taxes this fiscal year?
duhbama awarded $2 Billion dollars in loans and guarantees to Petrobras, a Brazilian energy company, so that thy could do in Brazil - drill for oil - what the president refuses our own energy companies to do here in the United States. That must be the hiring that CNN is talking about - Brazilian workers. They are the same as American workers, right?
Yeah, it is still another, "Summer of Recovery!"
I think he is a dick, too!
Don't forget about Borders
Submitted by Mustang on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:46pm.
Don't forget about Borders book stores going belly up this week and putting another 11k people out of work.
Borders
Submitted by Mike Bates on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:54pm.
If only they'd sold more copies of The Audacity of Hope, they'd probably be on a hiring streak.
Embraer corporate jet
Submitted by Injest on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 5:35am.
You forgot “Embraer”
Remember Obama wanted to make Brazil a major country we do business with?
Remember Obama and his “corporate jet jihad”, that will kill domestic manufactures?
Well Brazil is a major player in the “corporate jet” business.
Enter “Embraer” one of the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world!
Whole Lotta Companies Hiring....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:08pm.
...Too Many To Count...
...Too Many to Mention....
...Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,...
...But Wait, There's More....
...Now where's that list? I had it written down on the same paper that BHO's specific deficit reduction and spending cuts was written on....
Missing Paper
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:38pm.
Was it two-ply, real narrow, and on a roll?
UNEXPECTEDLY!!!!!! SURPRIS
Submitted by Diesel on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 10:36am.
Pure bulls**t!!!!
CNN
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:10pm.
Talk is cheap, CNN. Show your evidence or shut up.
We KNOW hiring is rampant...
Submitted by USMC8411 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:29pm.
Now we need to convince YOU of it before the election so that we may continue this economic boom o which this country has never seen before. (Except for the Great Depression)
How's Jenk-off Uighur doing with his newly discovered free time in this booming over employed economy?
Why doesn't o'bama just add 6 to 7 million more government jobs? Wouldn't that put all of the unemployed back to work?
As Joe Bite Me said, it's a 3 letter word. J-O-B-S!!!
I belive it may be those
Submitted by Nothing Left on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:33pm.
I belive it may be those great paying jobs with healtcare exemptions at Mc Donalds
YEAH lots of people are hiring.......
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:38pm.
In Obama land... he needs another million media prison wives, a few million more magic Fairies.... ( Barney is getting kinda old and slow) and of course his wiener/corns to be loud and rude to everyone that disagrees with barry the boy wonder
This is just like Obama's
Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:40pm.
This is just like Obama's comment last week that 80% of Americans favor tax increases. When in doubt, they just make stuff up.
That would be pretty outrageous if he had in fact said it.
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:09pm.
The fact that he didn't puts things in a different light however. What he said was that 80% preferred a compromise package consisting of both tax revenues [e.g. closing loopholes or some hikes] and spending cuts--but weighted toward spending cuts. When in doubt, check your facts. Don't make stuff up.
Jer
HEY JER!!
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:19pm.
Please pull your head out of the Obama Urinal and listen.... TAX REVENUES are TAXES!!!!!!!!! so what he said was in fact 80% prefer HIGHER TAXES!.... Take your own advice DON'T MAKE STUFF UP!
YO JARHEAD, I CAN HEAR YA...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:36pm.
While I'm extracting my head, do me a favor and show me where Obama made said statement. Please. If you can, I'll commence my apology tour.
Jer
Taxes ARE Revenues
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 11:21pm.
The only way a government gets its money is through revenue, the TRUE revenue being through sales taxes. But because you have the IRS which *gasp* stands for Internal Revenue Service, they collect taxes in other ways, which is revenue for them.
They are just trying to put a bogus spin on something that's normally got negative connotations(and it always will) and trying to pretty it up by giving everyone rose colored glasses which is just shy of seeing red when people get taxed even more. It's the same line of bullsh!t that they gave us saying the public doesn't understand how it works, but the public sure as hell knows when they are getting robbed.
The government made more revenue when taxes were down because people were spending more money. Since people aren't spending much money these days, the crooks in DC are getting it in other ways.
It's ALWAYS taxes.
-Jon
CNN must be thinking of China and all those people Soros...
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 5:49pm.
...will be putting to work in Venezuela - if Hugo doesn't kick off and a subsequent revolt doesn't wreck his plans.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
What a tool....
Submitted by Jarhead68 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 6:24pm.
He must be talking about McDonald's and their thousands of minimum-wage jobs. LOL.
McDonalds
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 8:29am.
Yes, but those jobs didn't materialize until after McDonalds got their ObamaCare waiver. I would be willing to bet that a lot of other new jobs out there are similar.
Mc Donlads, Burger King
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 7:10pm.
Lots of corporations are hiring: Mc Donalds, Burger King, Wendy's, all the low pay, long hour jobs that teenager used to do but now their parents, the ones who have been laid off in the last tree years, fight over.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Steve Wynn flies on corporate jets!
Submitted by OxyCon on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 7:22pm.
He's evil!
The Virtual Reality Continues
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:46pm.
Another example of what I'm talking about when I say the MSM tries to create a "virtual reality" world where things are very different from the one we actually live in. If you stayed in your house and watched only the MSM, you'd think the country was well on it's way to a healthy economy because of Obama. Conversely, when a Republican is president, even if the economy is doing okay, you'd think that there were millions and millions of homeless people in soup lines.
I know where he got the count from
Submitted by Mutantone on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 8:09am.
He got the job count from the ones that voted for Obama, you know in the cemetery, in the comic books and the servants for Mrs Obama and the kids.