Vicksburg Post Editor Charlie Mitchell:
The Republican Party has rolled out a litany against Musgrove’s term as governor from 2000 until 2004. It’s their standard, moderately distorted stuff: Net loss of 37,000 jobs...Well the facts show differently:
When Musgrove left office the number of total employeed was 1,085 less and the percentage unemployeed was actually better/lower than when he started. This reality is quite a bit different from the 37,000 number they throw around.
Charlie Mitchell points out Republican amnesia in apparently forgetting to "point out that the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might have had something to do with the U.S. economy tanking" including that of Mississippi in the middle of Musgrove's term.
Contrast that with post Musgrove Mississippi after Katrina where billions of federal tax dollars have employeed countless in Mississippi and have bailed out a state government that would have faced major shortfalls.
After the so called responsible Republican stewardship you'd expect far better from a state government led by Republican Haley Barbour.
But that simply isn't the case.
Employment Unemployment Unemployment Rate
1,234,837 76,722 5.8% January 2000 (Musgrove Day 1)
1,233,752 74,350 5.7% January 2004 (Musgrove Final Day)
1,235,366 92,143 6.9% June 2008 (Barbour Present)
Post Musgrove total employment is barely up while the total unemployed has skyrocketed increasing by nearly 18 thousand.
Republicans want you to believe that Ronnie Musgrove was a bad steward of Mississippi's economy, but he did better with far, far less.
1,235,366 92,143 6.9% June 2008 (Barbour Present)
Post Musgrove total employment is barely up while the total unemployed has skyrocketed increasing by nearly 18 thousand.
Republicans want you to believe that Ronnie Musgrove was a bad steward of Mississippi's economy, but he did better with far, far less.
