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Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
But Mitt has a plan to add millions of jobs!
Just cut more taxes for the wealthy is all it takes.
I say we go to a pure flat income tax with NO deductions.
you can not generate enough funds with a flat tax
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
But Mitt has a plan to add millions of jobs!
Just cut more taxes for the wealthy is all it takes.
I say we go to a pure flat income tax with NO deductions.
you can not generate enough funds with a flat tax
Already debunked, numerous times.. you lying sack of shit bitch
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
Do democrats understand taxing the wealthy still leaves trillion dollar deficits..
I doubt it, I havent met one of you guys that is that smart.
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Do democrats understand taxing the wealthy still leaves trillion dollar deficits..
I doubt it, I havent met one of you guys that is that smart.
So?
Cutting back on food stamps and Medicaid would still leave trillion dollar deficits. Does that mean you oppose those cutbacks?
Ultimately the answer to the economic problem is that people should be paid more to do nothing so they can buy more stuff from fewer and fewer people who do work.
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
There is more than a bit of truth in this complaint.
U.S. governments at various levels employ millions of Americans in jobs that could be eliminated without compromising the ability of those governments to fulfill their legitimate functions. As much as I hate to say it, the DoD budget could be slashed by at least a third without compromising our abilityto defend ourselves. Why are we in Germany, Korea, or Okinawa? Why do we have hundreds of bases in the U.S. and around the world - bases that were thought necessary during the Cold War, but are utterly without value today. The ONLY reason they continue to exist is because the people who work there - military and civilian - cry crocodile tears to their respective Congresspersons any time their need is questioned, and somehow the closures are stopped.
Operation Head Start has been PROVEN to provide nothing more than expensive babysitting to poor children; any conceivable academic advantage is completely evaporated by the end of second grade. Yet it employs tens of thousands of child care workers (or whatever they are called), who would be unemployed if the program were stopped.
So trying to restore fiscal sanity at the Federal level would of necessity result in hundreds of thousands of government workers and military people and government contractors losing their jobs.
But there are two compelling reasons to do it: (1) we are BORROWING the money to pay them, and the American taxpayers will have to pay the direct costs as well as the interest costs over the coming years, and (2) the Federal Government HAS NO RIGHT TO SPEND MONEY on anything other than those functions that are outlined in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), and to pay for those functions at the lowest possible cost.
The concept is "Fiscal Responsibility."
In other countries, where the government has cut its costs significantly (NOTE: "Austerity" in Europe is generally a myth; they are spending as much as ever, but TALKING ABOUT cutting back), the business community responds by making the kinds of investments that result in general prosperity and significant increases in private sector employment.
And let us not forget that PUBLIC SECTOR employment represents a COST to the society which must be repaid with interest, but PRIVATE SECTOR employment is a benefit to society that requires no "repayment."
To mention an axiom that is apropos: "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!" When your government is broke and going broker every day, you do what is necessary to stop borrowing more money.
Government jobs do not add to production........
And your response has nothing to do with the OP. If programs are cut or defunded many women and minorities will be unemployed and that INCLUDES private sector jobs that are within these programs (some of which are not "government" per se) and it will cause the related businesses/jobs to suffer unemployment also. As an example, Planned Parenthood spends millions on condoms, birth control pills and related items. If they are defunded they won't be buying many of these and other things and those industries who make them and provide them will suffer unemployment. See if you can wrap your head around the simple concept of supply and demand.
Government jobs are a drain on the economy. They do not produce tax revenue. The exception would be state and local.
I thought I would add that because i have had this conversation with many empty headed democrats.
Contrary to the notions of austerity economics, three years of budget cuts and government layoffs have only served to weaken the nations recovery. As seen in the latest issue of Prosperity Watch, new research convincingly demonstrates that government layoffs only lead to greater unemployment in difficult economic times. In short, we cant reduce unemployment by increasing the number of the unemployed. For more details, see Prosperity Watch.
Prosperity Watch Issue 16, No. 2: Government layoffs increase unemployment
Recent trends in the national labor market demonstrate the harm inflicted on the economy by cutting government spending and laying off government employees in the middle of an already challenging economic recovery. Just as with private sector layoffs, government layoffs increase the number of people out of work. And given that there are already nearly three times the number of people looking for work than there are job openings, these public sector layoffs only serve to increase overall unemployment.
As a recent Brooking Institute report shows, several years worth of cuts to government spending across the nationresulting in large-scale layoffs in the public sectorhas contributed to the nations lagging labor market by increasing the pool of workers who need jobs. Taken together, federal, state, and local governments have laid off 642,000 workers in the 36 months since the formal end of the Great Recession in June 2009.
Normally, the public sector accounts for a bit over 9% of the nations total employment, yet these government layoffscoupled with additional spending cutshave held back the number of government workers from keeping up with population growth. If the nation had maintained its average government employment levels over 2000-2007, the American labor market would have 1.7 million more jobs than it does currently today (see following figure) and the national unemployment rate would stand at 7.1% a full point lower than the current rate of 8.2%.
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
Well democrats caused this mess time to clean it up
There is more than a bit of truth in this complaint.
U.S. governments at various levels employ millions of Americans in jobs that could be eliminated without compromising the ability of those governments to fulfill their legitimate functions. As much as I hate to say it, the DoD budget could be slashed by at least a third without compromising our abilityto defend ourselves. Why are we in Germany, Korea, or Okinawa? Why do we have hundreds of bases in the U.S. and around the world - bases that were thought necessary during the Cold War, but are utterly without value today. The ONLY reason they continue to exist is because the people who work there - military and civilian - cry crocodile tears to their respective Congresspersons any time their need is questioned, and somehow the closures are stopped.
Operation Head Start has been PROVEN to provide nothing more than expensive babysitting to poor children; any conceivable academic advantage is completely evaporated by the end of second grade. Yet it employs tens of thousands of child care workers (or whatever they are called), who would be unemployed if the program were stopped.
So trying to restore fiscal sanity at the Federal level would of necessity result in hundreds of thousands of government workers and military people and government contractors losing their jobs.
But there are two compelling reasons to do it: (1) we are BORROWING the money to pay them, and the American taxpayers will have to pay the direct costs as well as the interest costs over the coming years, and (2) the Federal Government HAS NO RIGHT TO SPEND MONEY on anything other than those functions that are outlined in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8), and to pay for those functions at the lowest possible cost.
The concept is "Fiscal Responsibility."
In other countries, where the government has cut its costs significantly (NOTE: "Austerity" in Europe is generally a myth; they are spending as much as ever, but TALKING ABOUT cutting back), the business community responds by making the kinds of investments that result in general prosperity and significant increases in private sector employment.
And let us not forget that PUBLIC SECTOR employment represents a COST to the society which must be repaid with interest, but PRIVATE SECTOR employment is a benefit to society that requires no "repayment."
To mention an axiom that is apropos: "When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!" When your government is broke and going broker every day, you do what is necessary to stop borrowing more money.
Yes, and those that are for all this shouldn't complain when the welfare roles swell to the point of no return which taxpayers will pay for. And related private industries will suffer unemployment too in severe reduction of products for these agencies and programs such as office supplies, computers, office equipment and many items that are specific to each agency or business. So, if Romeny's plan is implimented, don't complain about loss of jobs and increased taxes to pay for the unemployment and other things that result.
They assume correctly that if stability and confidence were restored to the business interests companies will start hiring again.
Democrats believe that unemployment can be solved if we employ a crew to dig a hole and another crew to fill it in.
Unemployment will rise due to the cuts in programs this team (who doesn't need to worry about employment) proposes. This will especially affect women and minorities who are employed in planned parenthood programs, social services, etc. Way to go Mittens!
Jobs
Communities of color suffer from chronic high unemployment and the Great Recession
and subsequent anemic recovery has worsened this situation, particularly among youth
of color. The need for good jobs in key sectors as well as job-training programs, particularly for youth and the long-term unemployed, is more evident than ever.
