Can Government Create Jobs or Not?

[midnight]

I’m confused by Republicans in Washington, and here’s why: For most of President Obama’s term, they have ignored the millions of jobs the Congressional Budget Office says the 2009 stimulus legislation created and instead argued that the government is incapable of boosting employment. Summing up the larger sentiment, Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2011 said “government spending doesn’t create jobs,” and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) insisted in 2010 that “it’s not the government that’s going to create jobs in this country.”

Fast forward to the present debate over impending budget cuts. Incredibly, the same Republican Party that once insisted the government can’t create jobs is now barnstorming the country telling us the government can, in fact, create jobs—lots of them.

This isn’t an exaggeration. As The Hill newspaper reports, Republican senators—many of whom suggested government can’t create jobs—are hosting town hall meetings to sound the alarm about how proposed defense spending reductions “would cause significant job losses” and therefore hurt the economy.

Ayotte’s rhetorical paroxysms are especially illustrative—and perplexing. In a CNN interview to promote the events, the New Hampshire senator—the same lawmaker who said “it’s not the government that’s going to create jobs”—implored Americans to “think about [the Pentagon cuts] in terms of jobs, 136,000 defense jobs in Virginia. They have to issue layoff notices before the election, so members of Congress need to come together on this.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/can_government_create_jobs_or_not_20120810/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Republican legislators

Don't want to admit that a PROVEN method for the government to create jobs is through infrastructure development and renewal.

If you hire workers to build bridges and roads and renewable energy backbone - they spend the money they earn. . . At restaurants, grocery stores, shoe stores, automobile dealerships, home improvement. The people who take the money from them then engage in b2b spending, as well as expanding hiring. Their employees do as the infrastructure workers do . . . And it snowballs from there.


The Republicans would rather spend money on defense to destroy other countries so their buddies can make a buck.

So they lie to themselves and weak minded people who believe their lies.

[MooseTrax]

2. Be Sure To Vote

The Hoover administration and the banks ruined the economy in this country and dumped it in 1932. That sound a little familiar to you? When Franklin Roosevelt's administration started the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, RFD, Social Security etc. the Republicans couldn't stand the idea but things were in such terrible shape it not only continued but they watched Roosevelt reelected three times. It took eight years and our involvement in the second world war to get things straightened out. Keep the faith.

[midnight]

3. What do you think could straighten out the confusion the Gop has with the govt. using the full

employment act that can't be straightened out right now, but after another election? No more faith based voting for me...