The Political Freakshow

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Under Fire Over Lack of Job Creation In His State (My Home State!!)

It takes sheer stupidity and utter laziness to come across as uncaring. Amazingly, Deal has done that. Whether it is cutting funds to the Georgia Lottery that helps thousands in the State of Georgia to attend secondary colleges and universities, or lowering the wages of teachers whose wages are already low due to Georgia GOP representatives and senators falling asleep at the wheel.

The GOP is rampant in my home state. The very fact that I am writing this to you is a milestone. I am a moderate liberal in a land of ultra-conservatives. It is amazing how I have managed to live, even exist in a state that believes that everything that President Obama does is a disaster, even if the very thing that they are criticizing was something that they both supported and advocated for.

Just like the GOP in other states, Deal is sending Georgia down a road of destruction. After all, it is now wonder that Georgia is DEAD LAST, read that again, DEAD LAST, in job creation across the country. Hell, even Georgia’s unemployment rate has exceeded the national unemployment rate for over two years running. It truly takes an idiot to mess a state up that bad. However, he has had some help.

When Deal is up for re-election, I will be voting Democrat. I will not be supporting Deal and his shenanigans any longer. The GOP has woken up the beast in me. I will never be silent or silenced.

Gov. Nathan Deal (R-GA), who was once among the 15 most corrupt members of Congress, didn’t much like it when the progressive group, Better Georgia placed an ad in his hometown paper on Tuesday. And, now, apparently, Gov. Deal (R-GA) thinks he can say “liberal” three times, throw in some funny math and make Georgia’s jobs problem disappear.

On Tuesday, Better Georgia, drew the wrath of the Governor’s office when the organization placed this full page ad in the Governor’s hometown paper, The Gainesville Times. Better Georgia challenged the Governor on his abysmal record on job creation and pointed to the sad statistic that Georgia is 51st in the nation, right behind Washington, D.C. when it comes to job creation. (See page 3 of the PDF State of Working in Georgia 2011.)

In the State of the State address, Gov. Deal seemed to understand that Georgia has a jobs problem. After all, he proposed a huge middle-class financed tax break of more than $157 million for big corporations in order to spur job creation. Everyone expected Gov. Deal to offer up this sort of already-failed top-down strategy that ignores the fact that business most often chooses to expand in states that, unlike Georgia, invest public schools and transportation so there will be a ready, reliable workforce.

No one expected the Governor’s office to go completely off the reservation and claim there isn’t a jobs problem in Georgia, but, after calling the nonpartisan Better Georgia “liberal” three times, that’s exactly argument the Governor’s spokesperson, Brian Robinson chose to make. Don’t believe me? See the 11 Alive clip below:

Gov Deal Responds to Better Georgia from Bryan Long on Vimeo.

Seriously? Georgia has exceeded the national unemployment average for more than fifty straight months. How can we expect the Governor to solve our jobs problem if he doesn’t even acknowledge that it exists?  As one commenter said, soon, he will be rubbing Sonny Perdue’s head and making three wishes. I make light, but Georgia’s job situation is anything but. Georgia’s job creation stats are scary for families and offer little hope for recent college graduates. Governor Deal’s  lack of understanding  is downright dangerous. Just ask folks like this Atlanta couple.