16 states show job increases under Obama

Rush didn't mention the names of the states.

Red states - that'd be Republican states - have shown some job growth. Democrat states - not so much.

From Investors.com: Recovery? Just 16 States Have Gained Jobs Under Obama

Just 16 states have seen job growth since President Obama took office, according to state employment data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The remaining states have lost a combined 1.4 million jobs since January 2009. Even 34 months after the recession officially ended in June 2009, there are still 11 states that have fewer people working now than at the start of the recovery. Meanwhile, 20 states have unemployment rates at or above 8%, including nine with unemployment at 9% or higher, according to the BLS. At the other end of the spectrum, Texas has been the leader in job creation under Obama, with 240,000 more people working there than when he took office. Since the recovery started in June 2009, Texas has added 474,000 jobs, which accounts for one in four of all the jobs created during the recovery. North Dakota takes the prize for fastest job growth rate, with employment climbing 13% since Obama took office, due largely to the oil boom there. The biggest job loser under Obama is California, which as of April was down 285,000 job vs. January 2009, BLS data show. The data underscore how the lackluster recovery has failed to come close to filling back the job losses from the recession, a poor performance that is sure to weigh on Obama's re-election prospects. The latest IBD/TIPP poll, for example, finds just 35% give Obama a top grade for his handling of the economy, while 43% give him a D or F. Obama has attempted to assuage such concerns by boasting about the "extraordinary progress that we've been able to make," including "4 million jobs created over the last two years." But the nation's workforce is still 5 million smaller than it was at the previous employment peak, set way back in January 2008, BLS data show. At 51 months, it's already the longest jobs recession since the Great Depression, with no end in sight. By this point in the recovery from the 1981-82 recession — which saw unemployment shoot up to 10.8% — the labor force was 6.8 million larger than at the pre-recession jobs peak. Red Vs. Blue States Looked at through the political prism, red states — those likely to vote for Mitt Romney this November — gained jobs, on average, under Obama. Blue states, in contrast, had an average job loss rate of almost 1%. And since the recovery started, red states have had a job growth rate of nearly twice that of blue states

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Here's what he did say:

RUSH: Investors.com with a little editorial: "Recovery? Just 16 States Have Gained Jobs Under Obama." Sixteen of our 57 states. Obama on the campaign trail, 2008, said he had visited all but one of the 57 states. "No, he didn't, you're making it up." No, I'm not making it up, he said it. "Well, why didn't the media make a big deal?" Because they buried it, is why. Obama doesn't commit gaffes. Obama doesn't say stupid things. He does, I mean, but they don't report it.

But the truth is that, "Just 16 states have seen job growth since President Obama took office, according to state employment data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The remaining states have lost a combined 1.4 million jobs since January 2009." There you have a portion of the shrinking labor force, often called the labor force participation rate. "Even 34 months after the recession officially ended in June 2009," and do you believe that? Officially is a statistic. When you have two or more quarters of economic growth, then there's no recession. So the recession has been over, according to the regime, since 2009, and in the 34 months since then, "there are still 11 states that have fewer people working now than at the start of the recovery. Meanwhile, 20 states have unemployment rates at or above 8%, including nine with unemployment at 9% or higher."

So, yeah, let's reelect Obama. This is what he doesn't want discussed. This is why I firmly believe he's happy with everybody talking about some literary agent blurb that said he was born in Kenya. I think he's ecstatic for people to be talking about that. I think he's ecstatic for people to be talking about Reverend Wright. Because, folks, the things that he has proposed to fix our economy have failed miserably, and they continue to fail, and they will continue to fail because he's not going to change them. He wants to be reelected, and there's not one single reason to if you're interested in economic opportunity, if you are interested in economic growth.

If you are interested in finding a career, plus a job, Obama's not for you. None of that is growing. The opportunity for all of that is shrinking, because that opportunity exists in the private sector. And by private sector, I mean the basic economy, where most people go to work. Everything that's not government is the private sector. And the government sector is getting bigger. There are more bureaucracies. There are more entitlements. There are more people being hired. They don't produce anything. In fact, they don't have any money until people are taxed. The government doesn't have a dime 'til it takes it from somebody. The government doesn't produce anything. All government does is destroy wealth or redistribute it. They have to destroy it before they can redistribute it. By destroy it, I mean take it for themselves. Obama doesn't want anybody talking about that.

But if you want the traditional, good old American way of a career and advancement, entrepreneurial activity being rewarded, risk being applauded, Obama's not for you. If you want a country where success is rewarded, not punished, if you want a country where hard work and the resulting success from it are applauded and pointed to as almost the way you'd look at an individual who is an idol, if you want an economy that produces people that end up inspiring others to do great things, Obama's not for you. Because none of that is happening. I shouldn't say none of it, because there are hard workers that work to overcome whatever obstacles that government puts in their way. It's the great thing about this country. Every attempt to take aim at the successful, there are people who find a way around it. They work harder sometimes to stay up, to keep. But most people depend on those people for their opportunity. And there are simply fewer of those opportunities because of these people, and because of Obama. It's not complicated at all. The place where opportunity exists in this country is being shrunken by design and on purpose.