Will Republicans Work to Lower Unemployment?

[Samson]

With just over two years till the presidential elections, economic expansion and a strong job market is critical to Obama and the Democrats. Republicans are promising they will work for economic improvement if elected in the midterm. But is there any real incentive for them to do so? It would seem that they have reason to do the opposite. It is Obama, not congress that will be held responsible if in 2 years we have high unemployment.

Does this mean you've already given up on Congress' Democratic Super Majority and Barak Hussein?



I thought the stimulous was working?

 

[Charles_Main]

In order to balance the budget without raising taxes, the Republicans are going to have to put hundreds of thousands of government employees, not to mention hundreds of thousands of private sector employees dependent on government spending for their jobs,

out of work.

I doubt that will improve the unemployment situation.

Gee, here's an idea: why don't we put 'em to work on some NEW oil rigs and start SHIPPING oil instead of importing it?

And, while we're at it, maybe open some glass and ceramic factories -- and put 'em to work producing and refining and shipping bio-fuels.

Just think, bending and lifting a bunch of dead corn stalks to put 'em through a shredder and then forking the stuff into a fermenting vat might even reduce those FAT FLAT BUTTS deformed from sitting in an office all day back down to their BMI mandates and stop the OBESITY epidemic at the same time it EARNS SOME TAXABLE INCOME AND WAGES for the the poor suckers for doing an HONEST days' work for an HONEST day's pay. Especially since they'd be forced to stop eating all those damned take-out EXPENSIVE office blob fodder at the same time.

OPEN THE FACTORIES and start producing EXPORTABLE GOODS if you want to stop unemployment and economic hand-to-mouth bare subsistence -- and the only way to do that is to GET YOUR MITTS off of INVESTMENT CAPITAL.

Corporations don't create lush funds for lazy butts to wallow in -- THEY CREATE JOBS.

Wow, why didn't we think of all that? Your answer is so "simple". It's as if it came from a "simpleton". Oh, it did.

No actually that would be yours. Again.

 

[Avatar4321]

I think you need more than just Republicans to work, you need the American people to work. That is the only way to lower unemployment.

Working. What a novel concept.

 

[Flopper]

Just about every Republican candidate is promising to reduce government spending. Any serious cuts in government spending is going to result in job cuts over the next two years. You would think they would be concerned about this but think again. The prize is the Presidency not control of Congress. Anything they can do that worsen economic conditions will help the Republican nominee.

Controlling the Presidency is more important than control of Congress. The president can veto any bill congress passes. Through executive orders and implementation regs, the administration can often slow down or nullify the effects of the new laws. Lastly, the president's power to appoint Supreme Court justices can promote agendas long after the president leaves office.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

With just over two years till the presidential elections, economic expansion and a strong job market is critical to Obama and the Democrats. Republicans are promising they will work for economic improvement if elected in the midterm. But is there any real incentive for them to do so? It would seem that they have reason to do the opposite. It is Obama, not congress that will be held responsible if in 2 years we have high unemployment.

To paraphrase Nancy Reagan....Republicans are Doing what they can.

Why do you think Republicans are so-AGAINST unemployment-insurance extensions?

If they can force people to take entry-level jobs (at much-lower-wages)....rather-than the wages/jobs they'd worked-their-entire-lives to attain....corporate-America would LOVE Republicans' efforts (and, dispense with the appropriate campaign-donation$, shortly-after!!!).​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

With just over two years till the presidential elections, economic expansion and a strong job market is critical to Obama and the Democrats. Republicans are promising they will work for economic improvement if elected in the midterm. But is there any real incentive for them to do so? It would seem that they have reason to do the opposite. It is Obama, not congress that will be held responsible if in 2 years we have high unemployment.

Republicans know two things. "Deregulate" and "Cut taxes for the rich". That's it. That's all they know. You want to know what their policies are?

1. Deregulate clean air.

2. Deregulate clean water.

3. Deregulate Wall Street.

4. Cut taxes for everyone making over $250,000 a year.

5. End taxes for everyone making over 5 million a year.

6. End taxes for corporations.

There you go. The Republican plan. I knew it even before they said it.

In other words......


Hey government beaurocrats..... GET OUT OF MY LIFE!

Sorry.....this thread is about Workers.....not business-OWNERS.

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[hipeter924]

With just over two years till the presidential elections, economic expansion and a strong job market is critical to Obama and the Democrats. Republicans are promising they will work for economic improvement if elected in the midterm. But is there any real incentive for them to do so? It would seem that they have reason to do the opposite. It is Obama, not congress that will be held responsible if in 2 years we have high unemployment.

To paraphrase Nancy Reagan....Republicans are Doing what they can.

Why do you think Republicans are so-AGAINST unemployment-insurance extensions?

If they can force people to take entry-level jobs (at much-lower-wages)....rather-than the wages/jobs they'd worked-their-entire-lives to attain....corporate-America would LOVE Republicans' efforts (and, dispense with the appropriate campaign-donation$, shortly-after!!!).​

Democrats Rake In Record Donations From Corporations

During his State of the Union address, President Obama decried the potential for a crush of corporate money – even foreign money – to enter the American political system in the aftermath of the recent landmark Supreme Court ruling that alters who can contribute to candidates.

President Barack Obama delivers his first State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo.
(Tim Sloan/Pool /Reuters)

But tax forms recently made public show that Democrats have not been immune from collecting corporate funds to help its politicians gain an electoral edge. The Democratic Governors Association vacuumed up $11.6 million in contributions -- mostly from corporations and unions -- during the second half of 2009. For the year, DGA raised $23.1 million, a record.
The contributors included hefty checks from nearly every top lobbying firm in Washington, and from such multi-national giants as Exxon Mobil, which pitched in $50,000. The DGA even accepted funds from the American subsidiaries of companies with foreign ownership. More than $25,000, for instance, came from Diagio, the giant European liquor producer that makes Guiness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and other major brands, which is based in London.
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Republicans used a parallel organization, known as the Republican Governor's Association, to bring in nearly $18 million, also largely from corporate donors, most notably large banks and health insurance companies. The GOP also got a boost from wealthy individual givers, including Texas home-builder Bob Perry, a veteran of the 2004 Swift Boat ad campaign that targeted Democratic presidential hopeful John F. Kerry, who gave $2 million, and the celebrity mogul Donald Trump, who gave $75,000. For the year, the RGA pulled in $30 million -- like the Democratic figure, a record.
The governors associations were established to help the parties get their candidates elected across the country. Because they don't invest in federal candidates they were never subject to the ban on corporate and union contributions that the Supreme Court tossed out last month. They organize under section 527 of the tax code, and are therefore required to disclose the identities of their donors.
Democrats Rake In Record Donations From Corporations - ABC News


That's right your hopey changey Obama and his Democrat demagogues is fed through a straw by corporations and get more money from Corporations than the Republican Pary does. Stop spreading the BS that the Republicans are pro-corporate while you get fed through a straw by the very same corporations you claim to despise. Also known as BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Until consumer demand comes back, what are they supposed to do; spend mo money we don't have?

Ah, yes.....the Catch-22 that Lil' Dumbya NEVER CONSIDERED!!!​

"And you can see right there how simply the words of President George W. Bush started slamming the breaks of the economy.

This, of course, all snowballed."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

So the Democrats "plan" has not worked, they have controlled government totally for two years now......

BZZZZZZZT!!!!!!

You've been listening to Porky Limbaugh, too-much. ​

February 01, 2010​

"Republicans still chafe at being labeled as the party of no; House Republican Conference chairman Mike Pence claimed last Friday that Obama's visit to talk to the GOP caucus had validated their contention that they have legitimate policy ideas of their own. But there is no doubt that the obstructionist strategy helped bolster the beleaguered fiscal-conservative arm of the Republican Party. After eight years of growing the government under the Bush Administration, creating new entitlements and funding bridges to nowhere, their reputation was in shreds. "It was a very dangerous strategy because, if the stimulus worked, the Republicans would have been very vulnerable," says John Feehery, a Republican strategist. "But it didn't work, and that gave the GOP some needed credibility."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

In order to balance the budget without raising taxes, the Republicans are going to have to put hundreds of thousands of government employees, not to mention hundreds of thousands of private sector employees dependent on government spending for their jobs,

out of work.

SWEEEEEET!...When do we get started?

I doubt that will improve the unemployment situation.

Actually, it would free up hundreds of billions, perhaps even trillions, of dollars to be put into productive growth of the real economy.

That's what Porky Limbaugh says, huh??

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[Mr. Shaman]

I think you need more than just Republicans to work, you need the American people to work. That is the only way to lower unemployment.

Working. What a novel concept.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.....Working, is the way to lower unemployment.

Teabagger-logic. How unique!

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[SuMar]

this is the republican agenda
cut taxes,especially for the wealthy
deregulate all business and industry
push a christian/social con social agenda

Oh yeah..because the rich don't provide jobs..

 

[Mr. Shaman]

this is the republican agenda
cut taxes,especially for the wealthy
deregulate all business and industry
push a christian/social con social agenda

Oh yeah..because the rich don't provide jobs..

So.....where are they?

We've had the present/Bush tax-cuts, for 7+ years, now.

Where ARE the jobs that were promised??

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[fyrenza]

No.

Repugs feel that folks CAN create their own destiny,

that if they work hard, and have a better idea,

they WILL succeed.

If not? They'll fail,

just as the rest of us

And that's something:

i'm ******* WHITE.

WTF are all of MY bene's for that little fluke of fate?

I truly am smarter than most, and here I sit, POOR and needing/wanting some little help.

Yeah, yeah. DON't applaud, just send MONEY!

Make MY misbegotten life better,

show ME some compassion,

and Throw Money at me!!!

I PROMISE to appreciate it, and I MIGHT even try to use it, wisely.

No guarantees, mind you.

Being a home-bound lazy ass sort of suits me, what with my health probs and all.

(Yeah. I actually have a Good Excuse for being like this. Who knew? )

I'll release my medical records to you, IF you'll support me,

in the manner to which I'd most assuredly LIKEEE to become accustomed.

If that doesn't suit you?

How the **** dare you put anyone else's shit on my back?

'Cuz guess what? I HAVE to try to take care of me, and I do, with NO gov monies.

<sigh>

But I'm fairly certain that you don't and/or won't "get" that.

 

[Old Rocks]

From 1993 to 2001, there were tens of millions of jobs added in this nation. Good paying jobs. From 2001 to 2009, the jobs added did not even keep up with those graduating from high school and college.

Yet the dingbat Conservatives believe that this is a record to run on!

 

[fyrenza]

From 1993 to 2001, there were tens of millions of jobs added in this nation. Good paying jobs. From 2001 to 2009, the jobs added did not even keep up with those graduating from high school and college.

Yet the dingbat Conservatives believe that this is a record to run on!

PLEASE don't Neg me, again, asshat,

but could you post some links to your statements?

 

[uscitizen]

Republicans as per usual will work to lower American wages so we can better compete in the world marketplace.

 

[SuMar]

this is the republican agenda
cut taxes,especially for the wealthy
deregulate all business and industry
push a christian/social con social agenda

Oh yeah..because the rich don't provide jobs..

So.....where are they?

We've had the present/Bush tax-cuts, for 7+ years, now.

Where ARE the jobs that were promised??

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Well checking the local job site here, there are plenty.





* Accounting/Finance/Banking
* Casino
* Customer Service/Administrative
* Drivers
* Education
* Engineering
* Healthcare

* Hospitality/Restaurants
* Information Systems/Technology
* Nursing
* Professional/Management
* Retail
* Sales/Marketing/Advertising
* Security

* Social Services
* Trades/Manufacturing/Construction

 

[johnrocks]

Until consumer demand comes back, what are they supposed to do; spend mo money we don't have?

Ah, yes.....the Catch-22 that Lil' Dumbya NEVER CONSIDERED!!!​

"And you can see right there how simply the words of President George W. Bush started slamming the breaks of the economy.

This, of course, all snowballed."

You always bring up that dumbass Bush when quoting me and I always respond by telling you that I no more cared for that idiot as I do for Obama, when is it going to sink in that my lips don't slurp on either "R" or "D" cock?

 

[johnrocks]

In order to balance the budget without raising taxes, the Republicans are going to have to put hundreds of thousands of government employees, not to mention hundreds of thousands of private sector employees dependent on government spending for their jobs,

out of work.

I doubt that will improve the unemployment situation.

Yet as a liberal you probably support cutting the defense budget which would put thousands out of work so what is the difference?

Government's duties isn't to provide jobs for titty suckers.