Posted on 07/02/2010 2:47:08 PM PDT by Qbert
You get more of what you pay for.
Do they even listen to themselves? He's right. They *do* need to put money into the economy. Since all government money comes from the taxpayers, the ONLY way to "put" money into the economy is to lower taxes.
The fastest way to put money into the economy would be to announce that the corporate tax rate is now zero. That would pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy virtually overnight.
Only 48% of the stimulus is spent, guess they have to save that for fed, state and municipal workers who all vote dem.
“The fastest way to put money into the economy would be to announce that the corporate tax rate is now zero. That would pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy virtually overnight.”
Yep- but that would make too much sense. And the Dims wouldn’t be able to demagogue about how the eeeeeeevil GOP hates the unemployed.
I am for extending the benefits as long as Republicans get something in return like removing the money to Hamas. $200 million.
Reagan penned this crowd perfectly, they're demagogues.
You can't spend your way into prosperity, it's never been done. They should be making it easier for businesses to expand and hire people instead of just taxing, spending and regulating everyone out of existence. Unemployment is only supposed to be a temporary fix.
That may be true but it turned around the Clinton Presidency, which was teetering on irrelevancy, when he started trotting out workers who would go to bed hungry because of the mean old GOP holding up the money.
“Unemployment is only supposed to be a temporary fix.”
Unfortunately, these nitwits are trying to destroy as much of the private sector as they possibly can to try to break even more people and create an even bigger permanent unemployed underclass dependent upon the Dems for the bare necessities. Sad, sad, sad...
The nightly news is no doubt repeating the left's talking points as they usually do but now with the internet and Fox and Limbaugh they're no longer the only game in town. The GOP just needs to be more forceful in explaining their side.
Agreed, since they took over Congress in 2006 unemployment has more than doubled while the deficit has tripled. The GOP needs to hammer on this. Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
When Bush entered office in 2001 there were around 133M people working. When he left in
2009 there were around 135M (down from a 2008/Jan high of slightly less than 138M. During his 8 years there was a GAIN of 1,080,000 jobs.
When Republicans controlled the house and senate ((Jan 95 to Jan.01) the gain over that period was +16,107,000.
When house and senate were split (Jan.01-Jan.03) there were 2,203,000 jobs LOST.
When Republicans controlled house and senate (Jan 03-Jan07) +6,801,000 jobs were GAINED
When Democrats controlled house and senate (Jan 07 to now) -6,497,000 LOST
In the 17 months of Obama -2,979,000 jobs have been lost.
Source for the above is the “total non-farm payroll: all employees (PAYEMS) of the Deptof Labor.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress/Dems-refuse-compromise-to-extend-unemployment-benefits-97625324.html#ixzz0sZAOpXIm
I don’t get this ... don’t they have a majority and didn’t they pass health care without any help from the Republicans? How can they blame this on Republicans when they have the majority and can (and have) do/done anything they want?
“Agreed, since they took over Congress in 2006 unemployment has more than doubled while the deficit has tripled. The GOP needs to hammer on this. Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
I hear ya. All the GOP needs is to explain their side of the story in simple terms that the average person can relate to- instead they keep panicking (Joe Barton, FinReg reform, unemployment benefits, etc.) at the first hint of Dem demagoguery. IMHO, the Washington Examiner article explained what was really happening here 100X better than anything I’ve heard out of the GOP. Why can’t the GOP understand this?
Keynsians believe (and I think they are right) that automatic payments like unemployment maintain demand in tough economic times. In this case the pubbies are right because all they are asking for is that half the Democrap slush fund of 700 BILLION be used to pay for the unemployment rather than piling on debt to our kids.
It was just a couple years ago that the 350 billion they are talking about was greater than our ENTIRE deficit for the year.
That’s mind-boggling...
That data is just screaming for a chart (like the famous chart that compares Obama’s deficits to Bush’s)!
They need to hire experienced people to get the message out. I don't always agree with Gingrich today but he was good at that.
Correct, but then it doesn't buy any influence.
Handing out unemployment checks may slightly help to stimulate the economy but it's only temporary. When the money runs out they have to write more checks while increasing the debt in perpetuity unless they're also taking measures that assist businesses in creating jobs.
Since they're not I liken their check giveaways as a short-term fix similar to the Disclose Act. It's designed to help the democrats stay in power and nothing more. At least the GOP is saying pay for it first.
“They need to hire experienced people to get the message out. I don’t always agree with Gingrich today but he was good at that.”
Great point.
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