House Republicans Blatantly Lie To America By Claiming They’ve Passed Dozens of Jobs Bills

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House Republicans Blatantly Lie To America By Claiming They’ve Passed Dozens of Jobs Bills
By: Justin Baragona
Saturday, January, 18th, 2014, 12:10 pm


On Saturday morning, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) was chosen by the Republicans to make their weekly address. As the GOP has been struggling with a serious image problem lately due to their refusal to pass an extension of unemployment benefits for those who have been out of work for a long time, the party knew it needed to try to redirect the conversation. In his address, Stutzman urged President Obama to ask the Senate to pass all of the House -approved ‘jobs bills,’ as they would bring millions of jobs to the American people.

The thing is, there are no jobs bills waiting for approval by the Senate. The new tactic by House Republicans is to call every single bill that they pass a ‘jobs bill.’ An anti-abortion bill? Yep, jobs bill. Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that will put billions of dollars in the pockets of the Koch brothers? Yep, jobs bill. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has actually put together a list of bills that have passed the House that he feels are ‘jobs bills.’ There is just one little problem. They aren’t going to create any new jobs!

In Boehner’s mind, repealing Obamacare, slashing regulations, gutting social programs and eliminating federal agencies is somehow going to create more jobs. One bill that Stutzman pointed to in his address, the SKILLS Act, is something the Boehner and Republicans have hyped up as important to job creation. However, the likelihood is that it would actually create a net negative in jobs. While the GOP can tout it as important to helping people train for new jobs, what it really does is eliminates many existing federal programs, putting government employees out of work.

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The fact is, Congress is now in recess for a week and did not do anything about the long-term unemployed. When they get back to Washington, the number of people that will be without unemployment benefits will have increased. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has already provided offsetting cuts to provide funding for the benefits to stay intact for a year, even though this should be considered emergency spending. Still, Republicans in both the House and Senate are finding ways not to support the extension. Seeing the image problem, as the GOP is coming across as heartless and lacking empathy, Boehner has done everything he can to pivot to the message that the Republicans are focused on jobs.

But, they clearly aren’t focused on jobs. They are only focused on obstruction or pushing through anything that undermines the President and Democrats. Just because you call a bill a ‘jobs bill’ doesn’t make it so. If you aren’t willing to have anyone actually study and scrutinize a bill to see if they will actually create a net positive in employment, you cannot in good faith call it a ‘jobs bill.’ Period.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Obama claims that his three "free" trade bills were jobs bills

They were three of the four "jobs" bills he championed a few years back.

The Republicans suck worse, but... Let's start electing champions of the 99%, Ok?

[gtar100]

2. They can do that because they know the media won't question them on it.

I suspect even if they knew this, they still wouldn't report it.

[Faux pas]

3. I just don't understand the lying.

I guess it's because they're all pathological? I have a brother who'll lie about anything whether he needs to or not. There's gotta be some law against it, this is crazy.

[Mass]

4. Double sided claims. It is true that most of the House bills are not job bills, but

there are a handful of bills passed by overwhelming majority that the Senate is sitting on.

There are also a few bills, like the SKILLS Act, that should be taken by the Senate, fixed and sent back to the House. Training needs reforming. It is possible and likely that the House bill does not that, but the Senate is also doing nothing concerning this.

Now, if Reid would stop considering us as prop for an election and actually doing something to help (going in recess after two weeks of work is not what I call seeing the urgency of the problems. It is not for Boehner and it is not for Reid).

I have reached the point where I am unable to see the difference between both sides. They do not care and when they do, they are too disconnected from real people.

[dickthegrouch]

5. And new jobs at minimum wage are worse than useless

No job should be counted as a job if it still means the worker has to rely on other assistance to make ends meet.