Posted on 10/10/2011 3:40:28 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) tells MSNBC regulations create jobs because a business will have to hire people to help them comply with the new requirement.
"I think the answer is no," Ellison said when asked if he believes regulations kill jobs. "And here is why: When we talked about increasing fuel efficiency standards, the industry responded, and they need engineers and designers and manufacturers, and they need actually more people to help respond to the new requirement."
"I believe if the government says, look, we have got to reduce our carbon footprint, you will kick into gear a whole number of people that know how to do that or have ideas about that, and that will be a job engine. I understand what you mean, because if anything adds a cost to a business, you could assume that that will diminish that business's ability to hire.
But I don't think that's actually right. I think what businesses want is customers and what -- if they are selling product, if they have a product to sell they will do well even if they have some new regulations to meet," the Congressman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
...For bureaucrats.
Let’s regulate islam.
i hear lawyers say this all the time....
There’s stupid and there’s REALLY stupid. So let’s legislate that all devices be powered by a perpetual motion machine. It will create JOBS, dammit, because think of all the administrators it will take to acheive something... impossible.
dims have to be among the dimmest bulbs in any room..........
Well, most Congresscritters are lawyers and when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Beat me to it.
Ditto that.
This idiot doesn’t understand that the Bastiat Broken window parable was meant to be a parody.
US Government regulations do create jobs...in the People’s Republic of China.
Foolish Mr. Ellison; he believes that businesses are somehow permanently welded in place and don’t move. But, as an Islamic inner-city type, I should not be surprised as I doubt there is much actual business in his district. Most of it moved out under the lash of his predecessors.
EPA: Regulations would require 230,000 new employees, $21 billion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2783899/posts
New EPA regulations will cause 183,000 jobs to be lost - study
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2783727/posts
That is a special kind of stupid.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) should have left his mouth closed and left a little doubt as to his STUPIDITY.
Democrats promote jobs that cost money. Republicans promote jobs that make money. Only one is sustainable and helps improve the economy.
ML/NJ
Jobs for a few crooked democrat cronies.
No jobs for the other 99%!
(P.S. Thanks for using my pic! I am glad others have found it, Photobucket gives me trouble alot and I can't log in 8 times out of 10)
“Let’s regulate islam.”
... and dims.
LLS
“Paging John Semmens...paging John Semmens...please go to the nearest white courtesy phone.”
(Voice message from Erasmus:) “John, my good fellow, Keith Ellison has just raised the stakes on you.”
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