republicans campained on a promise to create jobs in the last election. what have we got from them. not a single bill dealing with job creation has passed. what they have spent all their time doing is introducing hundreds of bills dealing with abortion,gay marriage and other social issues.
the republican led congress. the worst congress ever.
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Dude, if you are going to quote Rachel Maddow word for word, at least give her credit for the quote.
and the fact that tax revenues and effective rates are at historic lows have no bearing on the debt. republicans insist they will refuse to agree to any revenue increases. they refuse to even end subsidies to oil companies.
you simply can not ask granny to give up her medicare and ss when you at the same time are giving tax breaks to billionairs.
If true, at least they haven't made the situation much worse visa vis the Democrat led congress from 2006-2010:
5 trillion added to the debt
millions of jobs lost
unemployment skyrockets to 9.5 percent unemployment
deficit goes from 300 billion to 1.6 trillion
complete collapse in housing
misery index soars
record number of people on food stamps
record number of people on unemployment
record number of people on welfare
Oh, and another entitlement program.
It's ironic that a guy with the handle "free thinker" gets all his ideas word for word from MSNBC hosts. That's some free thinking he's got going on there. LOL.
thats just silly. politicians can create jobs. any adult with a basic economics education should understand that.
are you trying to say that if the politicians got together and decided to finance a big infrastruture program it would create no jobs?
His statement should have read the government cannot create private sector jobs. However, often when they create public sector jobs it comes at the expense of private sector jobs thereby net net not really creating any jobs at all.
Sure, politicians can tax or borrow money and spend it and "create jobs" that way. But does that create any long term improvement in employment? Taxes come in large part from small business owners (those are the $80,00 to $300,000 a year guys that Democrats like to call "the rich"). The money they pay in taxes is money they can't use to expand their business. When politicians borrow money it leads to higher taxes later on, with the same effect. Politicians can transfer jobs from the private to the public sector, but they can't create new jobs in net.