John Boehner and Eric Cantor Respond to Economic Good News By Planning to Kill More Jobs

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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/09/john-boehner-eric-cantor-respond-economic-good-news-planning-kill-jobs.html

John Boehner and Eric Cantor Respond to Economic Good News By Planning to Kill More Jobs
By: Rmuse
Monday, December, 9th, 2013


Many Americans have experienced a mean-spirited person that goes out of their way to minimize a co-worker’s stellar job performance to deflate their feeling of accomplishment, and if it was within their power, they would deliberately sabotage their co-worker and inform management that the person they just singled out for acknowledgment was a drag on the company to get their co-worker demoted or fired. It happens in families with jealous siblings, in team sports, and it has been happening in the United States’ Congress. Leave it to Republicans to take recent good news on the economic front to undermine President Obama’s handling of the economy, sabotage the recovery, and kill more jobs to create the illusion Democrats need to be voted out of Congress.

For five years, Republicans have deliberately obstructed economic recovery and used it to their advantage to take control of the House after the 2010 midterm elections despite the President and Democrats saved and turned the economy around after 8 years of Republican malfeasance. The recent encouraging reports on jobs and economic growth has given Republicans the impetus to undermine the recovery by killing more jobs and preventing future hiring to blame the President and Democrats for the GOP’s handiwork. Republicans are signaling that, as the end of the year looms, they will take extraordinary measures to obstruct the recovery in several ways, and besides being un-American, they are revealing their growing animus toward the American people. Not only do they see a way to slow the recovery, take money out of the economy, and kill more jobs, they see a way to add well over 2 million Americans to the poverty ranks and stay on schedule dismantling the middle class for their libertarian money machine.

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As it stands today, there are a little over five unemployed workers for every open job, so the economy would have to add at least 8 million jobs immediately to reach pre-recession levels, and yet while Republicans have claimed for three years job creation was their highest priority during the 2010 midterm elections, they have opposed every single one of the President’s job creation measures, not created one single job, and taken great pride in killing millions of jobs and saying “so be it.” Their cavalier attitude towards killing jobs is only matched by their apparent glee at preventing job creation and it explains their opposition to extending jobless benefits to prevent 240,000 prospective jobs in the coming year in addition to the 200,000 jobs lost by letting unemployment benefits expire at Christmas.

It was a relative certainty that Republicans would use the recent good news on the economy, both GDP growth and job numbers, as a reason to find new ways to thwart the recovering economy and kill more jobs. That has, after all, been their sole purpose of serving in Congress since they plotted to obstruct President Obama’s economic agenda the day he was inaugurated in January 2009. It was definitely not a surprise that Speaker Boehner parroted the Reagan-GOP-Koch mantra that the key to creating jobs and a robust recovery was “more solutions that get government out of the way.” The only reason there has been a recovery from the Bush-Republican economic devastation was the President Obama’s government stimulus that has led to more than 8 million new jobs over the past 45 months that dwarfs the worst job creation record on record of less than 3 million jobs during 8 years under Bush-Republicans.

What is telling is that Republicans are using a bit of good economic news to send 2.15 million Americans into poverty ranks, kill 200,000 current jobs and another 240,000 over the next year as a result of letting long-term unemployment benefits expire. It is true Republicans have never needed a reason to kill jobs over the past three years they have had control of the House, and it is really little surprise they are using encouraging economic news to kill even more, but that they have the temerity to claim they are doing the long-term unemployed a service by keeping government out of the way just reinforces what most Americans already know; they are “mean-spirited government employees” deliberately sabotaging President Obama’s success, economic recovery, and over 2 million Americans’ hopes of staying out of poverty.

[spanone]

1. obstruction at all costs...this is their mission in life.

[Iliyah]

2. Can't have well rounded, well informed nor well adjusted public, i.e.

good jobs, healthcare, et al., because the corporate master won't be able to control the masses. Yes indeed per the GOP - keep the general public, dumb, poor and unhealthy.

[kardonb]

3. jobs go begging

these people are not joust nasty , they are EVIL INC .!

[blackspade]

4. The GOP hierarchy are traitors

These people are scum.