Bush pledges steps to spur jobs, business

[Thor_MN]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/17/bush.radio.reut/index.html

Saturday, January 17, 2004 Posted: 11:16 AM EST (1616 GMT)


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Bush promised new measures to promote jobs and business growth on Saturday and touted his trillion-dollar tax cuts in what amounted to a State of the Union preview.
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The president said he would unveil new economic measures Tuesday, although sources close to The White House have said there are no plans for big new tax cuts.

"We will work to expand opportunities for all Americans to own their own business. We'll press forward on an agenda of economic growth so that everyone who wants to work can find a job," Bush said.

In other words, "you will be independant contractors, responsible for negotiating your rates on your own and for finding and funding your own insurance, benefits, retirement. Who says we aren't the party of responsibility??? We are going to give you plenty of it!!!"

[Philosophy]

1. So that's why we need to import Mexicans

Once every American is a fat cat CEO of their own business, there will be no one left to actually do any real work.

[lovedems]

2. I don't want to own my own business!

What a prick. I am sure that over half of the currently unemployed would just like to find a good paying job with benefits without the headache of owning their business.

What balls touting his trillion dollar tax cut. The only people that has benefited are the wealthy. Evidence of that is all the good news on Wall Street. He needs to take a good hard look at Main Street.

[intheozone]

3. Yea, right. Expanding opportunities to own your own business by

not funding the SBA. SBA has suspended its small business loan program because it is out of money.

In this administration, the deeds never match the words!!

[aquart]

6. Well, they match by being exactly opposite.

Whatever Bush says, he does the opposite. It's very easy to understand him that way.

HE ALWAYS LIES.

[caledesi]

4. "Pledges" - another euphemism from these thugs. It means lie! nt

[Robbien]

8. Yep. Hold on tight to your wallets and jobs

Whenever Bush states that he supports something, the next day we see the funding for that program is cut.

In this SToU he will also be saying he wants healthcare for the uninsured. I suppose that means funding for the uninsured at hospitals and clinics will be whittled down to almost nothing.

[Th1onein]

5. He's getting desperate

Bush knows he's screwed the middle class and he's holding out this carrot for them now.

[54anickel]

7. Here's a bit more. Not everyone is buying it.

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2004/01/17/biz/news03.txt

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But the blueprint was criticized by groups representing smaller manufacturers, who said it amounted to little more than a repackaging of previous initiatives and would still slash funding for the popular Manufacturing Extension Partnership program by two-thirds.

"This is an exercise in public relations and not in serious policy-making," said Alan Tonelson of the U.S. Business & Industry Council, which advocates more restrictive trade policies. "This strategy ignores the globalization-related aspects of the current manufacturing crisis."

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The issue has also divided the manufacturing community. Larger companies, many of which have operations overseas, cast much of the blame on taxes, government regulation, litigation and other domestic cost burdens. Smaller manufacturers tend to focus more on alleged trading abuses and currency manipulation by other countries, particularly China.

The administration's initiative tries to address both sets of concerns. It calls on Congress to make the president's tax cuts permanent, rein in litigation, restructure health care and reduce the regulatory burden. It also promises to help U.S. manufacturers become more competitive in increasingly global markets, and to crack down on unfair trading practices by other countries.

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[Thor_MN]

10. Just like the "economy is booming" it's not hard to have an increase

after you have created a huge drop.

"Last year, the program received $103 million; it is scheduled to drop to about $40 million this year and next.

Administration officials characterized the proposal as a change of heart, noting that they had originally planned to phase out federal funding altogether. But advocates said the reduction will force widespread program cutbacks and staff layoffs."

To *, this means that he increased it by $40 million, because it was supposed to go to zero. It doesn't matter that he slashed it to zero, just that he increased it. Essentially, "F%*# you, get over it, ..., HEY I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING"

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[Malva Zebrina]

9. Musta been drunk when he said this

It will happen as fast as socialized medicine will in this country. Doesn't matter who is suffering under a piss poor policy, what does matter is that the corporations get to pay their CEO's obscene amounts of money, run our lives while not ever being elected or anywhere near that democratic principle, and they also get to con us all--the latest is that we need to invest our hard earned money into the stock market so that we can retire in luxury. Yeah--and we do not get to elect the "specialists" that sit , invited, with the boards of all the maga corporations--such as the one from Wall STreet that sat with the board of Enron--sorry his name escapes me now, but I watched his testimony at the hearings. And--whatever has happened to them all? All those Enron execs who committed a crime and stole money from their investors? Where are they now? They destroyed records for one thing so maybe that is what is taking so long, and no one has a thing to say about it. At least I have not read of a single person that is pursuing this issue with any energy at all.

Our system is broken--and it is broken badly under Bush.

[Gman]

11. Hey Bush! Expand THIS!

[young_at_heart]

12. Like always with these guys.......EMPTY WORDS!

Sounds great in the speech, but after three years, we know the truth.

[JPace]

13. Let me guess......

he wants to move the minimum wage down to
$1.50 an hour, that way we would be
competitive with 3rd world labor.

Cheap Labor Conservatives....
http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/blurbs.htm

[are_we_united_yet]

15. Blah blah blah blah

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Blah?

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[flaminbats]

16. sponsability???

In other words, "you will be independent contractors, responsible for negotiating your rates on your own and for finding and funding your own insurance, benefits, retirement. Who says we aren't the party of responsibility??? We are going to give you plenty of it!!!"

At least Democrats are capable of handling it...

[whathappened]

17. what is the matter

with this coutry , we have lost our site in just 3 short years , we are lostin space in our homes and just don't seem to no what to do about it , why can't people wake up and see this mess w has made and just get rid of him , the freeps even should no what is up by now

[Yavin4]

18. Liberals Are To Blame

Americans are the way they are because of Liberals. That's right Liberals are to blame for the current state of Americans. How? Well, starting with FDR and continuing right on through with Clinton, Liberals fought long and hard to see that all Americans had labor rights, racial and religious rights, gender rights, etc. Our work made the American middle class because we gave power to organized labor.

The result is that Liberalism produced three post-WWII generations that lived in a prosperous nation. OUr hard work saw the creation of the GI bill, opened up colleges and universities to women and racial minorities, saw the creation of the 40 hour work week, lifted the elderly out of poverty with Social Security and Medicare.

It also produced three generations of Americans who have no institutional memory of the past. Americans have been brainwashed by the corporate media to believe that American corporations are the ones who delivered them prosperity, not the tireless work of labor unions and Liberal policy makers that codified protections for labor.

[area51]

19. "Bush pledges steps to spur jobs"

More republinazi lies. Shrub's had 3 fscking years to spur job creation, & he hasn't done a damn thing, just like his dad. We unemployed know who not to vote for, & Shrub'll be fired over the economy just like his dad.