He's delusional if he thinks blacks are going to vote for jobs and against free stuff.
Maybe YOU would like to tell us what that "free stuff" is?
Are you saying that black folks would rather take handouts than work? Seriously? It would appear that Bush is not the only one who doesn't know that blatant and unabashed racism is out of style.
That seems to be what democrats think.. If not, why don't they focus on jobs and skill development?
Is that a serious question ?? Try to recall some recent history:
The American Jobs Act The issue most often cited when the dreaded words âObama Economyâ are uttered is unemployment which is only now beginning to show signs of improvement. It too impacts significantly on revenues as well as the need for government services. Obama has tried to improve the jobs picture through a number of legislative initiatives including a more robust stimulus package but political opposition prevailed On September 8, 2011 President Obama laid out a series of policy proposals known collectively as the
American Jobs Act. The plan included stimulus spending in the form of immediate infrastructure investments, tax credits for working Americans and employers to encourage consumer spending and job growth, and efforts to shore up state and local budgets to prevent further layoffs of teachers, firefighters, police officers, and other public safety officials.
The American Jobs Act never became law, however, because Republicans opposed it from the start, blasting it as another form of âfailed stimulusâ that wouldnât help the economy. (They ignored the fact that the first âfailed stimulus,â the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,wasnât a failure at all.) One month later, the GOPblocked the billin the Senate, preventing the creation of more than a million jobs and the added growth that multiple economists predicted would occur if the bill passed.
The Veterans Jobs Corps: The Los Angelis Time reported: âPresident Obamaâs proposal to create a Veterans Jobs Corps to stem high unemployment among recent military veterans was shelved Wednesday after Republicans in the Senate balked over the five-year $1-billion cost,âŚâŚâ The article went on to say âThe measure had been on Obamaâs to-do list for Congress, a modest set of initiatives aimed at boosting the nationâs sluggish economy that Republicans have largely rejected. The jobs bill would have hired veterans who served in the military since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to work on federal public lands projects and would have established a network of job training centers.â Republican opposition stemmed from refusal to support an
initiative that originated in the White House. The corps, loosely based on the Civilian Conservation Corps created during the Great Depression, would put veterans to work on preserving and restoring federal, state and local lands.
Bill to create Veterans Job Corps fails to advance
Insourcing: In July 2012, Senate Republicans blocked the No.1 item on the president's congressional "to-do-list," refusing to allow a vote on a bill that would give tax breaks for companies that "insource" jobs to the U.S. from overseas while eliminating tax deductions for companies that move jobs abroad. The Bring Jobs Home Act would provide a 20% tax break for the costs of moving jobs back to the United States and would rescind business expense deductions available to companies that are associated with the cost of moving operations overseas. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, had warned Democrats before the vote that his party would want to amend the bill -- possibly with hot-button issues like repealing the health care reform law or extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels.
http://www.law360.com/articles/562536/gop-sens-filibuster-insourcing-tax-credit-bill
