Shame on Obama, the Democrats and Republicans: Cut the Crap and Create Jobs!

[Better Believe It]

Cut the Crap and Create Jobs
by Brent Budowsky
July 8, 2011

This is one of the great outrages in political history. Neither party is now proposing a major jobs program. While the Republican Party at the national and state level is doing everything it can to destroy jobs, the Democratic Party is failing to fight for jobs with the intensity that Democrats have historically done. Meanwhile, the Democratic president does photo-ops, Twitter events and mini-jobs programs of the magnitude of school uniform trivia.

It is an outrage, a crime, a sin against decency and a defamation against everything I personally believe that nobody, I repeat nobody, in the high councils of politics gives a damn about those who have been jobless for 99 weeks. This violates my faith as a Christian, where we are supposed to help those in need. It violates my values as a Democrat, where we are supposed to fight for jobs. It violates the most common-sense economics, which proves that help for 99ers provides more stimulus than tax cuts for the wealthy, but since the 99ers would have to spend the money from assistance, to live.

The president's political brain David Plouffe now suggests that voters will not vote based on the jobless rate. This is ridiculous, absurd, delusional and symptomatic of a president far out of touch with the realities of working-class Americans who is clueless in confronting Republicans who believe in firing police, firefighters, teachers and librarians.

The disastrous jobless numbers today will add to the political earthquake of a nation that demands jobs and is outraged by Washington power brokers who show no signs of caring, understanding or acting.

Read the full article at:

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-a-budget/170347-cut-the-crap-and-create-jobs

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Yep. They sold us all that free trade by promising bigger and better jobs

Guess what? They lied. Don't tell anyone tho. They'd rather not know.

[neverforget]

2. I talked about this last night. No one really seemed to care.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1439820

[DJ13]

3. Winning is everything

Neither side wants the other to "win", so they squabble and bitch at each other while the people they're supposed to be working for go jobless, homeless, and hungry (and soon, have less SS for their old age).

[deaniac21]

4. This is what bush has done to us.

[MadMaddie]

5. I disagree with this article

The Democratic party has put 20 jobs bills on the table since the Repug have been the majority and not one was allowed to get to the floor. That is the Republicans wanting America to go into a double dip recesssion. The Republicans own this and we need to make it clear to the country and to them that they own it.

[Fearless]

6. In the least they have no PR department!

[defendandprotect]

7. Obama with 3 new trade agreements -- !! Wonder where the jobs went? 35,000 this month alone!!