It is a JOBS BILL.

[ColbertWatcher]

It is not a "stimulus" bill to benefit an abstract. It is a way to get jobs in communities all across the country. To put people to work so we can eat, so we can have a place to live, so we can take care of our health and the health of our children.

Not to "increase wealth." Not to prop up the stock market. Not to manipulate some obscure ratio between two numbers understood only by accountants and bankers.

It is for jobs.

So we can end this ...



... and this ...


... and this ...



... and this.

[wryter2000]

1. Yup

You nailed me on this one earlier, and I couldn't edit my post. It's a jobs bill.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Someone else came up with that, but ...

... I don't think enough people understanding the difference between what the GOP is doing and reality.

[LSparkle]

2. All Dems ought to start referring to it that way n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

5. I agree.

I wish I could remember who started it and give them credit.

[seafan]

12. It was Thom Hartmann. He should fill the new 10 pm time slot at MSNBC.

This man is a walking encyclopedia of historical facts, with a true progressive's heart and mind.

Hartmann: "Call it the JOBS BILL. Harry Reid, make 'em filibuster! Roll back the Reagan tax cuts."

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Excellent, I didn't know! Thank you. n/t

[Raine1967]

3. Thank you!

:applause: You put it more eloquently than almost anyone.

(except Maybe our President -- but that is just a maybe!)


;-)

[ColbertWatcher]

6. LOL!

You're welcome!

[Blue_In_AK]

7. K&R

[EFerrari]

8. CW -- I can't find the FBF thread. Is one up or going up?

:hi:

[ColbertWatcher]

13. It's up. Should be on my journal! n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

9. Why don't they start calling it the JOBS Bill? nt

[ColbertWatcher]

15. I don't know. And here I thought they read DU or listened to Air America! n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. :-) You know, part of the reason Repukes were so successful getting through their

destructive bills, is they named them deceptively so they sounded helpful to the middle class.

We Democrats don't even do that with bills that help the middle class, and we NEED to do that. We need to give bills names that show that they are for the middle class.

[ColbertWatcher]

23. You are so correct. Clean Air Act my ass. n/t

[SidneyCarton]

10. Consider the love shown.

We seem to be on similar wavelengths today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8173888&mesg_id=8173888

K&R

[ColbertWatcher]

18. Maybe we should ask the GOP what they see when they walk around their neighborhoods? n/t

[SidneyCarton]

20. It's easier to ignore people when one is cruising gated communities in limousines.

The "rabble" are kept out of view.

[ColbertWatcher]

24. I'd love to hear one of them say that. n/t

[liberalmuse]

11. Beautiful! Now we need to get this to Congress.

I wrote a rather nasty letter to McCain earlier today. I do NOT like that man.

[ColbertWatcher]

19. We need to get the word out that the GOP are blocking a JOBS BILL. n/t

[readmoreoften]

17. How would a jobs bill end a strike?

Will a stimulus bill make corporations less likely to shaft their workers? I don't think so.

[ColbertWatcher]

22. The bill needs to be passed.

The GOP won't support it because of how they're framing it. They won't win when a framing that is not their is used.

The GOP always lose to reality.

[mdmc]

21. too bad we threw all that bailout money at the banks

now no-one thinks that anything will work.
Just throwin money away..

[ColbertWatcher]

25. That's exactly what they GOP are saying: throwing money around.

Well, why not throw some money to make jobs?

[mdmc]

26. that would be helpful

the GOP would prefer to give the cash to corporations, outsource the work, and keep the money.

[alsame]

27. Chris Kofinas on MSNBC just now called it a "Job Creation and

Job Saving Bill"!

[ColbertWatcher]

29. Excellent!

Do you remember which show?

I'd like to start a "Chris Kofinas" appreciation thread!

[chill_wind]

28. Excellent, CW. K & R. n/t

[glitch]

30. It's mainly a jobs bill but it's also a stimulus bill.

Things like food stamps do help stimulate the economy as well as keep children from starving to death.

[ColbertWatcher]

31. If someone has food stamps ...

... they go to the store, where an employee helps them with their purchase.

The store gets reimbursed for the food stamps by the government.

But, putting the money into the people's hands creates jobs.

[glitch]

32. Stores selling wares (even if it's wares that require govt reimbursement) keeps jobs.

It all adds up and food stamps are an obvious twofer.

edit: actually more than a twofer, the multiplier is significant for "social" programs.

[ColbertWatcher]

33. Agreed.

I just think it's important to keep the focus on who this is effecting.

The GOP framing ignores the involvement of people in this whole mess and by saying "jobs" we can remind people whose plan benefits them and whose plan hurts them.

[glitch]

34. Sure, specifying jobs is good marketing.

And social programs get no respect from the people we're trying to market to, that's a given.
But all perception aside, let's give reality a nod now and then.

[ColbertWatcher]

35. Reality!?

http://www.wikiality.com/Reality

[glitch]

37. Lol. He strikes me into awe. :) nt

[David Zephyr]

36. Great thread! Great pics!

K&R.

[ColbertWatcher]

38. Thank you! n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

39. here's a K and R for ya

We nee

erica working and productive again.

[ColbertWatcher]

42. Thank you! n/t

[lunatica]

40. A Rebuilding America Jobs Bill for Generations to come.

Specifically to benefit all Americans for many decades into the future

[ColbertWatcher]

43. Yup! It's everything the GOP hates! n/t

[Jennicut]

41. Kickin

Damn right its a jobs bill.

[ColbertWatcher]

44. Thank you.

And people have to understand that the GOP are voting against a JOBS BILL.