Pro Business is no longer Pro Jobs..

[Junkdrawer]

It used to be the case that being Pro Business meant that you were Pro Jobs. IMHO, that was the core of the "Reagan Democrat" movement. But now that companies rush to export jobs overseas, Democrats need to remind the voters that:

Pro Jobs is Pro Jobs (we need to repair our sagging infrastructure)

Pro Small Business is Pro Jobs (about the only creators of American jobs)

Pro MultiNational Business is Anti Jobs (They only want us for our military - all the other jobs are more cheaply done overseas)

So if you want to see your sons and daughters fight and die to control the world's oil so that "American" foreign business interests are never nationalized, vote Republican.

If you want American jobs, vote Democratic.

[Soul On Ice]

1. I realize that I came

from a left-wing family, but I'll tell you, Pro Business NEVER meant Pro Jobs to anyone I grew up with EVER!

(btw, 'reagan democrat' is an oxymoron; emphasis on the moron!)

[Mikimouse]

3. I agree with that...

Pro-business equates to pro-profit, which essentially means increasing production with fewer workers. The fewer the workers, combined with a decline in job security (large reserve labor force-Marxian theory) leads to increased productivity on the part of workers who know that they are easily replaced. Works great for American corporate interests.

[Junkdrawer]

4. While I agree, here in Pittsburgh, Reaganism was largely...

a matter of "What's good for General Motors is good for the USA". And look where that's got us.

[cryofan]

2. Exactly! And that is why we need anti-corporatism president

like Dennis Kucinich.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. You do realize how idiotically obvious that pro-business was going

to turn out to be anti-jobs? The unions could have told you that it was going to happen. Even Ross Perot knew. (Not that I voted for him). What we must take from this is that Republicans don't think things through. They jump on soundbites that the average Republican can understand, and they never get grilled by their constituents. So we're left with a "gee, I never saw it coming" mentality. Or worse, they find some way to blame a Democrat for something that should have been obvious.

[cthrumatrix]

6. Look at the goodies in the medicare reform bill for corps. it's simple

wealth transfer...we subsidize their health ..todays' WSJ. Not only that...but they can book this as profits ..per a FASB ruling yesterday.

[Junkdrawer]

7. "What we have here is a form of looting."

The 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, George Akerlof as quoted by Al Gor in his MoveOn.org speech.