Posted on 08/05/2011 7:41:42 PM PDT by flowerplough
The political sphere has been so frustrating lately. The horrific midterm election brought into Congress waves of ultra-Conservative politicians with no real political strategy. Couple that with a never-ending recession, and it’s a political nightmare.
All they can talk about is “job creation” but all they can do is try and pass draconian spending cuts and abortion restrictions. I agree we need job creation and economic stimulus–when almost 10% of Americans are out of work, you bet we need more jobs.
But what does that have to do with spending cuts? Cuts on programs that improve the lives and health of Americans (saving money down the line) and, wait for it, EMPLOY PEOPLE. Lots of people. Mostly women, and many people of color too.
I may not be an economist, but can somebody explain to me how spending cuts and abortion restrictions magically create jobs?
Conservatives love to talk about how lowering taxes for the rich creates jobs via the “trickle down” theory. Do you really think that the richest 10% of our society, when faced with another lovely tax break, says hey, why don’t I go out and create a job today? That is not how business works...
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At the bottom of an eighth-grader's trash can?
This idiot’s vote cancels mine. Galling.
Say, I looked at the site name, and noticed that you can’t spell “Feministing” without “fisting.”
E.G., There are currently 1-2 trillion dollars in US business assets overseas. Why? Because America has the highest corperate tax rate in the entire world. If the rate was cut from 38% to maybe 10-15%, that money would come back. Thats a lot of jobs.
The less money the government sucks out of the economy and funds its unproductive bureaucracy hurts the economy you stupid ignorant $%@&
No, that's all you talk about. Remember two things; your mother was pro-life, and abortion kills future workers.
Cuts on programs that improve the lives and health of Americans (saving money down the line) and, wait for it, EMPLOY PEOPLE. Lots of people. Mostly women, and many people of color too.
Wow, she doesn't bother to hide her anti-white male racism.
Conservatives love to talk about how lowering taxes for the rich creates jobs via the “trickle down” theory. Do you really think that the richest 10% of our society, when faced with another lovely tax break, says hey, why don’t I go out and create a job today? That is not how business works...
Those "lovely" tax breaks enables companies to upgrade capital equipment, and gives companies the ability to compete in America, not sending jobs overseas. Companies in my opinion should not be taxed at all, and I am a white guy who is far from rich. It makes them able to spend what would be tax money on projects which will create a demand for employment.
Take your class warfare BS somewhere else. Or maybe in other words, we'll outsource your worthless screeds.
Exactly.
Better yet, how has ANY government spending created anything but more government jobs?
Miriam, you ignorant slut, neither spending cuts or abortion restrictions have nothing to do with job creation. You really need to buy a vowel before we can take you seriously...
“I may not be an economist, but can somebody explain to me how spending cuts and abortion restrictions magically create jobs?”
Can someone explain to me why people with the dialectical reasoning of 5 year-olds expect to be taken seriously by grown-ups?
“I may not be an economist, but...that is not how business works.”
What gives you the right to talk about something you admit you nothing about? Perhaps you should STFU. Ever consider that? You’re not qualified to state “how business works” by your own admission.
To get the thought process across, we are going to have to layer several bumper stickers over each other.
“Cutting spending” lowers the amount of money government must extract from the private sector. Because government makes no product that people pay for. The government can only take from one class of people and redistribute that money to another class.
“But what does that have to do with spending cuts? Cuts on programs that improve the lives and health of Americans (saving money down the line) and, wait for it, EMPLOY PEOPLE. Lots of people. Mostly women, and many people of color too.
“I may not be an economist, but....cuts on programs that improve the lives and health of Americans (saving money down the line) and, wait for it, EMPLOY PEOPLE.”
Assumption #1 is that these programs improve the lives and health of people. Surely, they do that to some extent. Inarguably, they also perpetuate what is now an entire generation of welfare dependents. Those dependents may never become employable, but they serve nicely as permanent Democrat voters once they see what side of the bread is buttered for them. Those lives are not being improved. They are being enslaved. So if you like slavery, then I guess that is an improvement. Can we put you down as supporting slavery?
Secondly, these programs are almost universally “gamed” by insiders or flat-out defrauded by cheaters. Yes, they employ people. In fact, the latest figures for the programs created by president 0bama and his Congress during 2008 and 2009 show that the average job created cost $278,000. to create. Is there even the slightest glimmer of possibility that someone in the private sector, given that amount of capital, could create a job or two or maybe five doing something or other? What’s the magic achievement out of creating jobs at $278K a crack?
So here is where the neuronic connection comes in: When the government takes that $278K out of private hands it disempowers those private hands from creating jobs by way of running their businesses in healthy ways. The threat of further confiscation of monies deters those private sector job-creators from creating the jobs and expanding their businesses like they would ordinarily like to. Because they are starved for capital. And because they see leechf**ks making as much money as a good worker might make for sitting on their butts.
“.....programs that improve the lives and health of Americans (saving money down the line) and, wait for it, EMPLOY PEOPLE.”
Yes, but in most cases, not productively. They employ people to administer giveaway programs to welfare recipients and various other bloated government bureaucracies that are always less efficient than the equivalent in the private sector.
Once again...if you’re not an economist, then go write about whales or icebergs or organic lettuce, will ya? If you’re not an economist, then do not deign to tell us or anyone else how you think those evil rich people will behave when you stop threatening to take money out of their pockets. Because, you don’t know. They got rich by being sensitive to how people put money into or take money out of their pockets. And they are being sensitive now. You, on the other hand, are just being a useful idiot and repeating crap you yourself admit you...wait for it....know nothing about.
The saddest thing about the author is that there are millions of them out there like he/she/it. Even though they may be dumber than a brick, they can vote and will vote as directed. It’s frightening that these people are cutting their own throats and destroying the futures of their children (provided, of course, that they don’t abort them all).
Stupidest opinions I've seen in months.
The draconian spending cuts amounted to an increase in federal spending by $7 trillion over the next 10 years.
Moron math.
That was crystal clear. You wasted precious space stating the obvious.
but can somebody explain to me how spending cuts and abortion restrictions magically create jobs?
Only if your promise to listen.....
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