GOP Governors Wanting To Be President Have Failed At Job Creation In Their Own States

After losing the 2012 election for the White House, several Republican governors were touted as the hopes for 2016 -- Rick Perry (Texas), Sam Brownback (Kansas), Chris Christie (New Jersey), Scott Walker (Wisconsin), Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), and John Kasich of Ohio. Perry has not been able to get any traction at all, probably due to the criminal case that is still pending against him. Brownback is also out of the running, because the Kansas economy has become a national joke.

The other four still seem to think they have a chance to become president. They shouldn't. They have all done serious economic damage to the states they govern by trying to impose the GOP's "trickle-down" economic theory (the idea that giving more to the rich by cutting their taxes will help everyone). That silly policy has failed on the state level just as badly as it did one the national level.

They claimed their policy would create new jobs, and put millions back to work. But as the chart above shows, they have done a worse job of job creation than in other states, and fall significantly below the national average. One would have thought they would have learned from their disastrous terms as governors, but they haven't. They still support the same GOP economic policies that damaged the nation and their individual states.

None of these men deserve an opportunity to serve as our president. They have learned nothing, and their policies would do nothing but lower the job creation average of the entire nation -- doing to all states what they have done to their own.

The numbers above are from an article by Paul Rosenberg at Salon.com.