4 Biggest GOP Lies About Jobs
(And Why Obama Must Repudiate Them)
Republicans figure if their big lies are repeated often enough, people will start to believe them.
Cuts in wages and benefits create jobs. Congressional Republicans and their state counterparts repeat this lie incessantly. It also lies behind corporate Americas incessant demand for wage and benefit concessions and corporate and state battles against unions. But its dead wrong. Meager wages and benefits are reducing the spending power of tens of millions of American workers, which is prolonging the jobs recession.
President Obama and Democratic leaders should be standing up for the wages and benefits of ordinary Americans, standing up for unions, and decrying the lie that wage and benefit concessions are necessary to create jobs. The President should be traveling to the Midwest taking aim at Republican governors in the heartland who are hell bent on destroying the purchasing power of American workers. But hes doing nothing of the sort.
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(And Why Obama Must Repudiate Them)
Republicans figure if their big lies are repeated often enough, people will start to believe them.
Cuts in wages and benefits create jobs. Congressional Republicans and their state counterparts repeat this lie incessantly. It also lies behind corporate Americas incessant demand for wage and benefit concessions and corporate and state battles against unions. But its dead wrong. Meager wages and benefits are reducing the spending power of tens of millions of American workers, which is prolonging the jobs recession.
President Obama and Democratic leaders should be standing up for the wages and benefits of ordinary Americans, standing up for unions, and decrying the lie that wage and benefit concessions are necessary to create jobs. The President should be traveling to the Midwest taking aim at Republican governors in the heartland who are hell bent on destroying the purchasing power of American workers. But hes doing nothing of the sort.
4 Biggest GOP Lies About Jobs (And Why Obama Must Repudiate Them) | Economy | AlterNet ... diate_them)/