Boehner: Cut Over a Million Jobs

[babsbunny]

http://www.hillbillyreport.org/diary/2008/boehner-cut-over-a-million-jobs

by: RDemocrat
Sun Sep 26, 2010 at 11:19:24 AM EDT

Yes the Republicans have released their plan to finish destroying America with much fanfare from the right-wing media. What none of them will tell you however is that if their plans of throwing the rest of the country's wealth away to the very rich comes to fruition it means only one thing for the rest of us. The loss of over a million jobs. Of course when you have crashed the economy and bailed out Wall St., who cares about Main St.?
RDemocrat :: Boehner: Cut Over a Million Jobs
In their never-ending addiction to "starving the beast" Boehner and his ilk would cut spending disasterously in a failed bid to look "fiscally responsible". This would cause many hardships for average Americans, while doing little to bring down our deficit:

[Angry Dragon]

1. Let us hurry forward .....

the cliff can not be much further

End of Story

[KansDem]

3. Perhaps the GOP should change its name...

The "Relemmingcans"

[Initech]

2. Do they want an economic revolution like what's happening in Greece?

[blondeatlast]

6. Of course not--they don't realize that their policies are leading us there, though.

Or worse yet, maybe they do.

[Dappleganger]

4. If this doesn't convince you that Republicans are the Party of the Rich

I don't know what will.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Their modus operandi is to tell voters they'll create jobs while they actually destroying them.

[DesertFlower]

7. sometimes i can't believe what i

read and hear. i feel like i'm living in an alternate universe.

[bluestateguy]

8. I always like this notion that somehow government jobs are not real jobs

As in such workers do not pay taxes, spend their money in the economy, buy consumer goods, and buy houses just like private sector workers do. And that taking all that away will somehow not have the same deleterious effects as getting rid of private sector jobs.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I know people with federal jobs who vote republican

There are lots of them around here. And, they are far out-numbered by others who work for contractors at our local DOE facility. Stupid, stupid people. The contractor employees all make BIG bucks, too. I'd love to see all these government contractors cut off. That would really save money. I worked at that facility for 20 years, and I never saw so much waste and fraud as I did by the contractors.

[Bonhomme Richard]

14. I had a government contractor telling me Obama is a socialist.

Teh stupid.

[Bonhomme Richard]

15. I had a government contractor telling me Obama is a socialist.

Teh stupid.

[gmoney]

11. well, the argument is that gov't jobs don't "produce" stuff

It's only a real job if you make widgets, or sell insurance policies, or churn stocks, or dig ditches.

The right doesn't recognize the need for most of what government does (enforcing regulation compliance, administering social programs, collecting taxes, etc) so why would they consider those to be "real jobs"?

Of course, if they had their way, and Social Security was turned over to Goldman Sachs, for instance, they'd crow about all the jobs THAT would create in the private sector (at 4 times the pay of government workers) and that the resulting pump up of stock prices were a boon to everyone, and would inspire companies to build more plants here, hire American workers, etc.

Then, of course, when the market tanked from all the profit taking, with very few jobs created, and the need for another huge bailout, well, then it would be necessary to prevent total economic collapse due to the "entitlement system" of Social Security.

There's just no winning with these people.

[Confusious]

16. The only real job is cheating the american middle class taxpayer.

For a republican

[gmoney]

9. can we cut military spending just a little sometime, please?

With the money we spend on the military, it's as if we replace every gun, tank, jeep, uniform, battleship, airplane, etc. every year or something. There has to be a way to stop development of new weapons systems, make do with last year's $1000 hammers, and quit outspending the rest of the world 8-to-1 or whatever the ratio is.

But no, let's cut school lunches, education, medical care for the poor, and research into curing disease.

Granted, we can postpone some of these stupid turtle tunnels and other pork projects and save a few bucks while we're at it, but why is the military always exempt from any spending cuts?

Of course, Obama could always take the wars "off the books" the way Bush did, and make the numbers appear to be better than they really are.

[indepat]

12. Pubs (and dems) will never look fiscally responsible as long as the most affluent send a smaller

percentage of their total income to Uncle Sam than do their secretaries for such is grossly inequitable and simply won't get the job done. The United States, with 5% of the world's population, simply cannot spend as much as the rest of the world on the military, police the rest of the world, build an empire, and exert global hegemony without taxing even a smidgen of the vast wealth amassed by the relatively few since the day trickle-down voodoo economics became vogue. :P

[cilla4progress]

13. Ok, I'm wondering...

do ANY economists - much less Nobel-prize-winning economists a la Krugman and Steiglitz, support this "plan" -- or only right-wing Republican politicans?