Thom Hartmann: I got the Republican talking points today on the jobs program

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Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future, joins Thom Hartmann. The ink hasn't dried on President Obama's American Jobs Act, but Republican leaders spared no time attacking anything in the bill that may offend their corporate patrons. So, is the President's job creation plan already dead. And speaking of jobs, according to a new report from the House Natural Resources Committee - giant oil corporations that are obsessed with drilling are actually killing American jobs. ExxonMobile, Chevron, Shell, and BP - the same corporations that receive the taxpayer subsidies President Obama is pushing to eliminate - made $546 billion in profits over the last five years. Yet - they laid off more than 11,000 American workers. So if these so-called Job Creators won't create jobs on their own - then it's time they give up some of their corporate welfare so that the actual job creators - working people whose spending creates demand - can do their thing. Come see Thom Hartmann at the FSTV's E-Studio at the Take Back the American Dream Conference sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future on Oct 3-5, noon-3p ET. Register here now http://www.ourfuture.org/conference.

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