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Shocker: The Obama Jobs Council Hasn’t Met in a Year

Jan. 18, 2013 9:35am Becket Adams

U.S. Jobs Council Was Supposed to Help Sort Out Unemployment, Hasn’t Met in a Year

President Obama Meets With Council On Jobs And Competitiveness In White House (Source: Getty Images, January 17, 2012).

Remember during the 2012 presidential election when a few of us noted with concern the fact that President Barack Obama’s so-called jobs council (aka the “President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness”) wasn’t, well, doing anything?

Well, the election has come and gone and the jobs council still isn’t doing anything. In fact, as of yesterday, it has been an entire year since it has met to discuss long-term unemployment. Yes, an entire year.

“President Barack Obama’s Jobs Council hit a notable milestone on Thursday: one year without an official meeting. The 26-member panel is also set to expire at the end of the month, unless Obama extends its tenure,” POLITICO reports.

The group last met to discuss U.S. unemployment on Jan. 17, 2012.

“A spokesman for Jobs Council chairman Jeffrey Immelt, who’s the CEO of General Electric, referred questions about the panel’s future to the White House,” POLITICO notes.

“A White House spokeswoman had no comment Thursday,” the report adds.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond Friday to a Blaze request for comment.

Final Thought: Perhaps news of the council’s inactivity shouldn’t come as that big of a surprise. Indeed, as noted elsewhere on TheBlaze, the council and the people who run it are not exactly, ahem, orthodox.

Remember when Obama’s jobs council head and the CEO of GE Jeffrey Immelt said that one thing that “actually works” is “state-run Communism” in China?

“Look, I think it’s good for China,” he said, referring to China’s growth rate falling from double digits to about eight percent.

“To a certain extent, Charlie, 11 to 12 percent is unsustainable. You end up getting too much stimulus or a misallocation of resources. They are much better off working on a more consumer-based economy, less dependent on exports, driving technology and innovation harder,” he added. “Really, the one thing that actually works, state run communism may not be your cup of tea, but their government works.”

“They get things done,” CBC News’ Charlie Rose responded.

They get things done — what’s that like?

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Comments (55)

Silversmith
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:41pm
Because his concern with jobs is and has only ever been lip service.

Silversmith

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- omgfolks
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:53pm
  He was only concerned with Jobs when he thought whe was going toneed to look for one, now that he has another four years it can wait. He would much rather spend his time argueing a 200 year fight on guns control and spend moneyon himself for life time security (which he can affords himself) that do anything about jobs in the US
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Telling that no trolls are here spewing forth in defense of dear leader.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:27pm
O- They’ve been meeting alright. Just not to CREATE jobs. The entire obama doctrine is about destroying jobs and then fudging numbers to hide behind.

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Vickie Dhaene
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:13pm
But, But, But, He, He, He goes to bed every night thinking about how to uh, uh, uh, uh, grow more jobs.

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DebateMe
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:12pm
obama cares about jobs only in rhetoric. But the electorate and our media buy into the rhetoric as if it were action. As long as obama says the right things, he gets a pass. That his actions do not match his rhetoric is of no consequence. This is the reality of America today. It makes the propganda of the USSR look like child’s play. And we thought we were so above propoganda…

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- naughtycal
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:18pm
  Was the shocker in the articles title meant to be sarcastic because that’s how I took it.
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:03pm
More fraud, waste and abuse, eh? I want my money back!!!!!!!!!!!

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RamonPreston
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:39am
Being an Obama cabinet member is a fantastic job. You get paid well and Obama never asks for your advice or makes you do anything.

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- Mr Sanders
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:22pm
  That’s Socialism or even Monarchy/Tyranny for ya. They sit on their “laurels”, enjoy tenure, and the citizenry feeds the very machine that evinces designs to optimally oppress it.
  
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:20am
I, for one, am glad they aren’t meeting. They only thing they would accomplish is to screw up the job market even more.

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texastommy
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:19am
I think they are all looking for jobs.

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- barber2
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:30am
  Also called ” Bailing Out !”
  
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- Bah-Zing
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:43am
  I find it very appropriate to the rest of the Presidents current facade, that when I personally checked the “Job Council” that it’s “blog” has nothing further than the August 16th blog.
  So evidently the jobs council has been looking for jobs since August 2012.
  
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spudwhite
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:16am
The TSA is growing and patroling everywhere now, must be hiring hoods from the hood.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Feast_bay&id=8957075

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South Philly Boy
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:11am
I Bet they Still get PAID

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Cavallo
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:05am
He doesn’t care about jobs. Record unemployment didn’t hurt him being reelected. Why would he care now? This is the new normal, this is what the American people VOTED for! High unemployment, anemic economic activity, high regulations, high taxes, poor prospects, and an asinine public fiscal policy.

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TonyFox
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:59am
What do you expect fro this Black SOB.

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- deeberj
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:08am
  His skin color is not pertinent.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:27am
  Agree. It is the utter ” RED” of his Chicago radical policies. Just like ” white ” Bill Ayers…..
  
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- Charfoxt
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 12:31pm
  The race he claims has nothing to do with his myopic and ignorant policies.
  
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NOBALONEY
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:51am
The only claim to fame for the ‘Jobs Council’ was in August 2011 when President Obama, and GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt (to Obama’s left) had a big laugh over the failure of “shovel ready jobs”.

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- Mr Sanders
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 2:27pm
  With Mr. Immelt at the left hand of the King…. whilst sending jobs overseas and bring back products that can harm you. [thank you Mr. Upton] Oh yeah – that’s Progress.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:48am
Who cares anymore? these embiciles are not job creaters they are job destroyers,now lets get back to the important stuff like that new hairdo.Just gives ya that warm fuzzy feeling doesn’t it?

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dustbunnieskill
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:47am
But he promised ? this cant be a true story, Barry has never lied in his Life

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RaydocX
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:47am
no news here…
he ignored the recommendations of his economic response team,
hasn’t SUBMITTED a budget for most of a term,
does not attend security briefings,
did not bother to initiate a response to Benghazi,
did not immediately interrupt his schedule or vacation for various tragedies or to address the ‘fiscal cliff’…

this is business as usual for this pretender. He CAN’T form an opinion or formulate a course of action on his own, dependent apparently totally on his advisors for any action.

Which might be good… what cockamamie plans would he be proposing with the ‘force’ of this team if they had met? THE LESS HE DOES, THE BETTER

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13th Imam
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:23am
“Laser Like Focus On Jobs”

The cause celeb du jour

DEMOCRATS don’t give a crap

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RepubliCorp
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:13am
But he cares about the kids………..

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- barber2
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:29am
  REPUB: Maybe Dear Leader wants to save them the hassle and messiness of working in their future..
  
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- thelongversion
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:56am
  Whose parents are unemployed
  
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djeffcoat
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:10am
And we should be surprised? Everything BHO and his administration do is for appearance sake. I have how the word optics has been redefined. But that is what you can expect from Washington, optics, all talk, no action. Four more years of empty promises on the taxpayers’ dime.

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barber2
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:05am
Who cares. Michele got bangs ! Jobs ?

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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:11am
  Now that is exciting!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:23am
  GONZO: Glad to see your priorities are focused like an Obama Follower…
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:35am
  sar·casm
  /ˈsärˌkazəm/
  Noun
  The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
  Synonyms
  irony
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:03am
  If she could only grow a beard also.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 11:29am
  GONZO: Got it !
  CAB: But TIMEBOMB said she was a beard…
  
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WillG
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:03am
He has more flexibility now. Full throttle on his actual agenda,Destroying our once Great Nation.

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Tigress1
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:52am
Immelt is too busy in China to fool with America. That is probably a good thing.

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HKS
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:44am
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
– Thomas Jefferson

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barber2
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:41am
Quite similar to the Obama Budget Committee ….

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:07am
  LOL
  What budget committee?
  The private sector economy is doing fine.
  We dont have a sending problem.
  
  /sarcasm off
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:18am
  spending problem
  
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Gonzo
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 9:40am
No longer any need for him to look like he give’s a rat’s ass.

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 18, 2013 at 10:57am
  He is a rats ass gonzo. Why whould he give one
  
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