Going back to Obama and ignoring the issue at hand.. Very partisan of you again.
I just want to know how they got a picture of Obama, standing in front of himself. Must be shopped, but it looks real.
Is this comment for real'?? the headline reads Creating New Jobs For Americans Was The # 1 Priority For Congress. Since The Election Other Issues Have Eclipsed That Issue.
Obama and the democratically controlled congress . House and Senate - said the same thing in 2008 .. and they spent $1.5 trillion to do it .. and now Gramps is complaining that the republicans who have a control of the House is supposed to have done something in three months
.. no nothing partisan .. or hypocritical in your snipe.
What did I hear constantly ... that the dems who had a majority in the house and senate and WH .. just couldn't do a thing with the party that said no. Funny, I don't remember any such headlines from Gramps about the dem congress failing .. after three years of control - .. but the repubs with 3 months of house control are now failing to do their job. Gish
In my mind the repubs won out in the last election - n the house, to lower taxes and lower govt costs .. and they were tired of democrat nonsense in many elections - just like the voters tired of repub nonsense in the previous elections.
Not that I think that these repubs will get employment going again - jobs will come back hopefully and it will be a cyclical thing .. if it is to be real employment then private businesses need to lead the effort. The point in the previous two congressional sessions had failed with a Dem president. If they don't do the job, then vote'em out .. and the dems who also don't get the job done too. Nothing partisan in that.
Just so we are clear, my problem with the GOP controlled House isn't that they haven't solved the employment problem that they campaigned on in just 3 months.
My problem with them is that they got elected to work on this problem and they aren't even trying.
Before the election it was jobs, jobs, jobs. Now it is abortion, NPR, Planned Parenthood, Muslim, and how best to further deregulate industries which pollute.
I have previously criticized Pelosi's Democratic Congress for being unable to get much done, and the GOPers in Congress for being unwilling to get much done, but this current crop is even worse, they are busy getting things done which don't need doing, while they ignore the issues that got them elected.
I think I have spread the criticism around pretty fairly, not that you have noticed.
Thats what gramps said, not what i said there for no... Nothing hypocritical in what i said. I am only pointing out the hypocrisy you are using and attempting to justify.
Thanks for that long partisan rant though.
Although the republicans messed up the stimulus by giving most of it away as a tax break which created no jobs, the stimulus still created jobs. As for taking vacation I remembered that Bush was on vacation all the time must be four or five times more than Obama.
The stimulus is a bunch of BS; but prove your statement if it actually created jobs, which it did not. Government can create jobs by getting out of the way and stop take more money from the people/businesses.
If you look at it from the standpoint of businesses, you don't hire because you don't know how you're going to get screwed next: Is the govt. going to raise taxes? How much is Obamacare going to cost? What's going to happen to the value of the dollar with so much mismanagement of the budget and overspending? And how much more are we going to overspend on a war with Libya?
The best thing that could happen is that our representatives and president get their financial house in order and quit screwing with business.
During a recession the only entity capable of action is the government. Private businesses basically batten down the hatches. Right now American companies are sitting on $1.6 trillion savings that they won't spend waiting for a better economy. Spending money is what drives economical activity. The Republicans can't create jobs because they simple don't know how and they don't care since the rich are rich and they give a damn about anybody else.
I hear this shit all the time. If you can't deal with uncertainty then you don't belong in business. Go find yourself a government job.
Those are the realities. There is always uncertainty, but the uncertainty of a tax-and-spend administration that doesn't give two shits about small business is dragging on small business and, in turn, the economy. Not hiring is one way they are dealing with the uncertainty. How's your government job?
After many years of propaganda the conservative have make "Tax and Spend" a very negative phrase. But as strange as it might seem to many there is no better method for driving economical growth that "Tax and Spend". My proof is World War II. Once the voices of conservatives screaming for the reduction of government spending were mute by the need to fight the war the government could finally do what they should have done a decade before which was to "Tax and Spend". The results was spectacular economical growth for decades. Just
I understand that tax-and-spend will spur growth, but bombing brown people to grow your economy doesn't seem like a great long term (or short term) way to go. I don't like tax-and-spend. I do not like the "conservative" version which is borrow-and-spend. I think we should look toward business growth and a free market which has served us well in the past.
The FF has closed the US job market by creating a "..very high progressive tax rate" , de-industrializing the country via de-valuing Chinese currency, sucessfully encouraging US citizens and non-citizens to become government dependent, and telling employers who, what, why, when and where they can hire employees, how much they must pay them and vast amounts of red tape to discourage people from starting up a business in the US. Hoooo rahhh.
Do any of you people believe you should back up your statements with facts. One simple fact is that the American economy was better when the top rate was 95% during the 1950s. The American economy went off the cliff under Bush when the top rate was the lowest since before World War I. It seems that the real economy operates 180 degrees from the make believe economy that you are talking about.
Relax, stew, steamed is our resident troll.
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I seem to remember the 2008 elections where there was a lot of guffaw about getting people back to work too .. How's that Hope and Change do'in for you'? How about bankers and Wall Street?
How about a vacation for the family