The Definition of Insanity: President Obama's 'Jobs Plan'

[The T]

Stop the insanity for God's sake. It's time for real change. Come on 2012!

A "real change"? Back to Bush? Because Bush fixed the mess Clinton had left? Republicans have "new" policies but can't name them?

Would the Founders be insanity deany? Limited Government...MAX liberty? Or is the thought too far above your head?

 

[Oldstyle]

Infrastructure investment (something Reps usually support) and targeted tax breaks for small businesses (what the right call the 'job creators') and employees is the definition of insanity? So now Republicans don't like tax cuts? I'm guessing if Obama came out and said he wanted to lower the corporate tax rate to zero, Reps would complain. There is no pleasing you people. I don't understand why Obama keeps trying.

I agree with you Obama is very tiring. He doesn't know how to fix something he has never done, never studied and would recognize if it was attached to his back side.. This is the man that right after entering office said" I don't have all the facts but the police were wrong.

Really brilliant.

Nice try. I didn't say that Obama is tiring. But it's good to see you totally avoid the points I made. Let's try this again. Obama's jobs plan includes infrastructure spending and tax cuts for businesses and employees. Since the right is opposed to his plan, it begs the question: Since when are Reps against infrastructure and tax cuts (both of which Reps typically support)? Do you think you can answer the question instead of deflecting with criticisms of Obama's judgement on something completely unrelated to the topic at hand? Thanks.

How is this round of "infrastructure" spending going to be any different than the last? Or have you forgotten those repairs to bridges, hospitals and schools that never happened? Those were the "shovel ready" jobs that were SO not shovel ready. They were the jobs that got abandoned when they took too long to implement. Instead we did tons of road resurfacing because that was quick and the Obama Administration was getting beat up over nothing happening.

 

[Oddball]

How is this round of "infrastructure" spending going to be any different than the last? Or have you forgotten those repairs to bridges, hospitals and schools that never happened? Those were the "shovel ready" jobs that were SO not shovel ready. They were the jobs that got abandoned when they took to long to implement. Instead we did tons of road resurfacing because that was quick and the Obama Administration was getting beat up over nothing happening.

Haven't you heard?..."Infrastructure" means bailouts and straight-up payola to state bureaucrat pension funds, AFSCME and NEA.

 

[oreo]

Stop the insanity for God's sake. It's time for real change. Come on 2012!

2012 cannot come soon enough

 

[The T]

how is this round of "infrastructure" spending going to be any different than the last? Or have you forgotten those repairs to bridges, hospitals and schools that never happened? Those were the "shovel ready" jobs that were so not shovel ready. They were the jobs that got abandoned when they took to long to implement. Instead we did tons of road resurfacing because that was quick and the obama administration was getting beat up over nothing happening.

haven't you heard?..."infrastructure" means bailouts and straight-up payola to state bureaucrat pension funds, afscme and nea.

seiu

 

[NGSamson]

Spot-On take from Michael Prell...

The definition of insanity (hat-tip to Albert Einstein) is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

So, what do you call it when a flailing U.S. administration, with a 26% approval rating for its handling of the economy, keeps trotting out the same failed economic policies? Do they honestly expect different results?

The government tried to jumpstart the economy with a fiscal stimulus, which didn’t work. So they tried a second stimulus, which also didn’t work.

They tried QE1, which didn’t work, so they tried QE2, which also didn’t work. Which naturally led them to where they are now: laying the groundwork for a QE3. What do all these Q’s and E’s mean? The long answer is: quantitative easing. The short answer is: invented money. The real answer is: all these Q’s and E’s matter far less than the ability to count to 3. If this idea didn’t work the first time, and if it didn’t work the second time, then why on earth would anyone believe it would work a third time?

The Obama administration has tried everything that doesn’t work — in some cases as many as 10 times — all with the same results. At best, America is stuck in a jobless recovery. At worst, America is stuck in a jobless non-recovery, made deeper and more painful by a government that keeps doing all of the things that are proven to not work — over and over and over.

Like trying to fix America’s debt problem by raising the debt ceiling and incurring even more debt. Which is “a failure of leadership” that “shift the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren,” as Senator Barack Obama noted back in 2006 when he spoke out against raising the debt ceiling. But that didn’t stop Barack Obama, as president, from raising America’s debt ceiling not once, not twice, but three times while in the White House. Why? According to President Obama, “If we don’t come to an agreement [to raise the debt ceiling a third time], we could lose our country’s AAA credit rating.” So, what happened after he came to an agreement to raise the debt ceiling a third time? America immediately lost its AAA credit rating.

The president’s “laser-like focus on jobs” keeps leading him back to tax hikes, even though we’ve repeatedly seen that higher taxes kill jobs and lower taxes spur job growth. Exhibit A: America in its recent past. Exhibit B: Canada in its more recent past. Exhibit C: Texas, now. Exhibit D: Common sense that tells us that if you want less of something, you tax it more, and if you want more of something, you tax it less.

The president also tried to encourage job creation by insulting and demonizing job creators — not once, not twice, but six times in one speech alone — as greedy fat-cats who fly in hateful corporate jets.

I’m no Einstein or Harvard law professor. But, unlike President Obama, I have created jobs. And Rule #1 about job creators is: Do not speak ill of job creators. At the very least, try not to hold several nationally televised addresses from the White House to demonize job creators when you want them to save your presidency. This helpful Rule #1 operates under the same basic principle that says: Don’t punch a girl in the face if you want her phone number, and don’t call half the country “hostage takers” who “cling to guns or religion” or send your vice president out to call them “terrorists” if you want them to re-elect you.

I’m not saying the president is insane. I’m just saying that he keeps doing the same failed things — over and over and over again — and expecting different results.



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Love how he has that fat fuck Dick Trumpka with him. What a fag.

 

[bripat9643]

If this idea didn’t work the first time, and if it didn’t work the second time, then why on earth would anyone believe it would work a third time?

We threw a bucket of water at a burning house.
We then threw another bucket of water at a burning house.

And now you're saying water is not the answer.

We aren't throwing water on the fire. We're throwing gasoline.

 

[bripat9643]

I'm inclined to agree... If anything, half the water in the pool evaporated, and he pumped more water in, and is now complaining that the deep end got deeper and the shallow end is continuing to evaporate.

Where did the water he "pumped in" come from, Einstien?

 

[The T]

I'm inclined to agree... If anything, half the water in the pool evaporated, and he pumped more water in, and is now complaining that the deep end got deeper and the shallow end is continuing to evaporate.

Where did the water he "pumped in" come from, Einstien?

Better yet? He has to address the "evaporation"...where did it go?

 

[Cuyo]

I'm inclined to agree... If anything, half the water in the pool evaporated, and he pumped more water in, and is now complaining that the deep end got deeper and the shallow end is continuing to evaporate.

Where did the water he "pumped in" come from, Einstien?

Better yet? He has to address the "evaporation"...where did it go?

Your complete ignorance to the concept of economic contraction is not surprising to me.

 

[The T]

Where did the water he "pumped in" come from, Einstien?

Better yet? He has to address the "evaporation"...where did it go?

Your complete ignorance to the concept of economic contraction is not surprising to me.

I understand the premise just fine. This is no time for you to save yer ass at my expense ratboy.

 

[Fyght]

Just wait until Republicans take back the white house in 2012, the economy will be roaring in three months.

 

[Cuyo]

Better yet? He has to address the "evaporation"...where did it go?

Your complete ignorance to the concept of economic contraction is not surprising to me.

I understand the premise just fine. This is no time for you to save yer ass at my expense ratboy.

Really? Cause based upon your earlier response...

I don't think ya do.

 

[The T]

Just wait until Republicans take back the white house in 2012, the economy will be roaring in three months.

It will really roar when Obama capitulates and doesn't run at all by taking the LBJ tact...

 

[Moonglow]

Infrastructure investment (something Reps usually support) and targeted tax breaks for small businesses (what the right call the 'job creators') and employees is the definition of insanity? So now Republicans don't like tax cuts? I'm guessing if Obama came out and said he wanted to lower the corporate tax rate to zero, Reps would complain. There is no pleasing you people. I don't understand why Obama keeps trying.

some people are not quitters. I admire that in a man or woman.
All the bad mouthed responders are quitters.

 

[hellofromwarsaw]

The Pubs and their pals in banking and business will stop holding things up? Oh boy, another boom and bust the taxpayers will pay for...

 

[asterism]

Clearly, helping American business is above his pay grade

Clearly, trying to help American business is not in the right's interest. Case in point: the right is already opposing Obama's jobs plan, which includes tax breaks for business.

What tax breaks are those?

The ones he passed in the ARRA were so esoteric that nobody qualified for them. The IRS didn't even publish statistics about participation, they results were that dismal.

 

[Moonglow]

Just wait until Republicans take back the white house in 2012, the economy will be roaring in three months.

dream on

 

[hellofromwarsaw]

Really, it'll accelerate after the election, no matter who wins, but if Obama wins it'll be a little slower, and the corruption and fraud will be less, and there won't be a bubble and bust!! and everyone will get affordable guaranteed health care and a more stable gd future. Pubs suq tyvm.

 

[Moonglow]

Just wait until Republicans take back the white house in 2012, the economy will be roaring in three months.

It will really roar when Obama capitulates and doesn't run at all by taking the LBJ tact...

Don't cream ur jeans when he doesn't