On jobs, conservatives are completely full of it
BY RYAN COOPER
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/02/05/on-jobs-conservatives-are-completely-full-of-it/
After the CBO report on Obamacare landed yesterday, finding that Obamacare would reduce labor supply by the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs, conservatives were beside themselves with glee. They blared that Obamacare is a job-killer, abetted by irresponsible mainstream journalists. Politico characteristically declared that facts don’t matter, that the spin is all that matters and the spin is bad. The “Jobless Care Act,” yelled the WSJ editorial page.
Conservatives might have a small point about the labor market. But the real point about this mini-flap is that it reveals once again that their carping about jobs is transparently ridiculous.
We are more than five years into a mass unemployment crisis that Republicans have utterly ignored except to attack the president and the Democrats. They have no policy proposals to increase employment at all, and have blocked every one of the Democrats’ job proposals. When it comes to jobs, they don’t have a leg to stand on.
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In any case, if conservatives want to talk about fixing the labor market, I’m all ears. But until they can get past fixation on supply-side issues to the total exclusion of everything else, they will be utterly worthless when it comes to jobs.
(completely full of it on everything, not just jobs)
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