Indy Star this morning"Indiana top loser of jobs"

[INdemo]

And our economy is great. According to this article its gonna get worse.
There is no way the Repubs at the State House will allow this article to stand without being challenged...
According to Mitch a couple weeks ago our job growth was fine..

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070331/BUSINESS/703310442

The comments page is probably most interesting..

[Sadie5]

1. Mitch has ruined this state

Among other things he has privitised almost everything from Family Services to the BMV. Now, none of these are running smoothly. Ads are also running daily on TV backed by Lilly to not allow the Government to neogiate drug prices.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Is Indiana the top loser or is Daniels? It's hard to determine.

I guess Governor Mitch Daniels' economic revitalization plan is working. He is a miracle worker.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Please post some of the article (Links don't always remain)

Despite the wave of companies moving to and expanding in Indiana, the state is having a hard time hanging onto jobs, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Preliminary statistics show Indiana lost more jobs in February than any other state except Ohio. About 7,400 non-farm-related positions vanished, compared with 9,700 in Ohio and 6,200 in New Jersey.

Indiana also had the largest percentage job loss in the country, tied with Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, and Vermont, each dropping two-tenths of 1 percent. Indiana was one of only three states to report a decline in employment for the past year, shedding 12,700 jobs.

Most of the losses -- not surprising to economists -- came from the state's struggling manufacturing and construction sectors.

[Delphinus]

6. And Indiana

is one of the hardest states to sell a house. Three years ago, when mine was on the market, we were dead last. I think only Michigan beats us now.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Job losses in Indiana rank 2nd in U.S. -->Ft Wayne Journal Gazette

Indiana lost more jobs in February than any other state except Ohio as its struggling manufacturing sector helped fuel the loss of 7,400 non-farm-related paychecks.

Figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that only Ohio lost more jobs, about 9,700, in February. New Jersey was third with some 6,200 job losses.

Indiana was one of only three states to report a decline in employment for the past year, shedding about 12,700 jobs. Most of those losses came from the state’s struggling manufacturing and construction sectors.

Despite a wave of announcements about companies moving to and expanding in the state, Indiana’s manufacturing-heavy economy continues to hemorrhage jobs, said Philip Powell, faculty chairman of the evening MBA program at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

[indypaul]

5. And the reubs brag

how quickly they can announce the state being carried by
a republican candidate for president on election days.
Is it now possible to convince the voters that doing the
same thing over and over and expecting different results
is a condition called insanity.

[Felix Mala]

7. But the Oracle of Geist Reservoir says everything he's done has

added jobs... Who are you going to believe? The Oracle or those lying statistics?