The story he told last night of "not being able to find" qualified women was total FICTION then. It sounded like an apocryphal story at the time, like something out of the 1970s or 80s. Wonder how old his advisor on this issue was?

".....The evidence shows that the kind of tax plan Gov. Romney proposes to implement is a job killer......would, if anything, push our economy back into recession and cost Americans jobs.

This issue brief details the following:

■Gov. Romney’s 59-point plan for job creation will do the opposite, costing 360,000 jobs in 2013 alone by our conservative estimate.
■Gov. Romney and his advisor’s insistence on supply-side economics that didn’t work in the past and won’t work now.
■There is broad consensus and economic evidence that now is not the time to implement the spending cuts and deficit-reduction measures the Romney campaign is proposing.

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.... that the plan would actually cost the economy about 360,000 jobs in 2013 alone. The 59 proposals in the Romney jobs plan can be grouped into four basic categories:

■Thirteen of Gov. Romney’s “jobs” proposals in fact offer no change in policy. It would defy the laws of nature for no change to create changes in employment of the magnitude Gov. Romney is promising. (See numbers 1, 2, 10, 17, 19, 23, 24, 33, 37, 49, 50, 51, 52 of his plan.)

■Twenty-six proposals should be expected to yield no discernible impact on job creation based on available economic theory and evidence because they are not really jobs proposals. Gov. Romney, for example, proposes renewing the president’s authority to negotiate trade agreements (number 18), a policy President Barack Obama has shown is not necessary to negotiate trade deals, nor would any new negotiations under a would-be President Romney be completed in any relevant timeframe. Another Romney proposal (number 21) suggests simply renaming some of America’s international trade relationships after Ronald Reagan, which may rally the conservative base but will not create a single job.

■Six proposals would directly eliminate jobs from the U.S. economy. These proposals would create tax incentives that encourage corporations to ship jobs overseas (number 7), and would undermine growth-enhancing investments in education, science, infrastructure, and health (numbers 8, 53, 54, 56, 57).

■Gov. Romney himself admits that cuts to public services and investments on the scale he has proposed as job-creating policies could cause an economic “recession or depression.” Even assuming a gradual phase-in, the expenditure and public service worker cuts can be expected to cost nearly 450,000 jobs in 2013.

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Indeed, the most likely source of tax increases would be to eliminate loopholes and deductions that benefit the middle class, such as the mortgage interest deduction. EPI’s estimate of Gov. Romney’s economic plan, assuming that the cuts are offset to be revenue-neutral, is therefore a more accurate representation of Gov. Romney’s plan and the resulting job-creation figure. That number is an estimated loss of 608,000 jobs in 2013 and an additional loss of 1.3 million in 2014....."



alll and more here:

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/labor/report/2012/10/16/41608/romney-has-no-real-jobs-plan/