WHY BOTHER? John Boehner's PATHETIC 10-Page Jobs Plan

[kpete]

John Boehner's Pathetic 10-Page Jobs Plan
— By Andy Kroll| Fri May. 27, 2011 6:48 AM PDT
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On Thursday, House Republicans finally unveiled their grand plan for tackling America's jobs crisis and creating jobs for the unemployed. It clocks in at a mere 10 pages, in large type, chock full of slick images. What's missing is, well, any legitimate solutions to lowering the nation's 8.6 percent jobless rate. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein wrote, "It looks like the staffer in charge forgot the assignment was due on Thursday rather than Friday, and so cranked the font up to 24 and began dumping clip art to pad out the plan."

The criticism is well deserved. Reading the "House Republican Plan for America's Job Creators" (PDF), http://majorityleader.gov/Jobs/HRP_JOBS.pdf released by the House GOP leadership, is an exercise in wonderment: you wonder what the GOPers actually propose. Several of the "Republican Solutions" are a bit vague. "After a systematic review of our visa system, the Congress should undertake prudent reforms," reads one "solution." Another "solution": "We will work to control the federal deficit to assure investors and entrepreneurs that our nation’s elected leaders are finally getting serious about paying off the debt over time." Details? Apparently, the GOP view was, why bother?

MORE:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/republican-plan-jobs-boehner-cantor

[RandomThoughts]

1. Unless government isn't suppose to do anything, by some views.

But lets stay on topic.

I am due beer and travel money and many experiences.

And if they can't get that right, of coarse it is going to fall apart.



And why do they do.

Scissor
Paper
Pyramid.

Don't you get it.

It is suppose to be

Rock
Paper
Scissors

[OHdem10]

2. If you read each proposal, this is a complete turnover of the country

to BUSINESS. However, it is true to their beliefs.
They believe Business must be FREE to Do AS THEY Wish,
because only business creates jobs.

Lower Business Taxes, Lower Corporate Taxes.
De Regulate --Get Government off the backs of Busines.

Go down the list and you find these are same things
that were used by Republicans to send us into the The
Great Recession.

They are being true to their principle. The Republican
Party is the party of Big Business.

[4dsc]

4. Regurgitating Reaganomics

30 years of failed conservative economics and still some people believe it will actually work if we just give business more tax cuts.

[Snoutport]

11. They are staying true...perhaps the Tea Partiers are just more honest

with the information. At least with them they tell us what they plan to do.

[geckosfeet]

3. Major thuglycan fail.

Klein zeroed in on the fundamental flaw:

The document doesn't admit the existence of a particular unemployment crisis that might require a tailored response. The only problem it admits is, well, Democrats. "For the past four years, Democrats in Washington have enacted policies that undermine these basic concepts which have historically placed America at the forefront of the global marketplace," the document explains on its first page. "As a result, most Americans know someone who has recently lost a job, and small businesses and entrepreneurs lack the confidence needed to invest in our economy. Not since the Great Depression has our nation’s unemployment rate been this high this long."

You don't have to admire the Democratic policy agenda to wonder if someone in Speaker Boehner's office shouldn't have raised his hand and pointed out that George W. Bush was president four years ago and he was a Republican, and perhaps there should be a pro forma mention of Wall Street and the financial crisis somewhere in this narrative. Sadly, the most significant employment crisis in generations has stopped generating new thinking and has become simply another opportunity to bash the other party while pushing your perennial agenda. That's a shame, because with 15 million unemployed and the recovery sputtering slight, we really do need new thinking and a sense of urgency on behalf of both the unemployed and the economy. In fact, we need it now more than ever.

That new thinking isn't coming from the Republican Party. But the Democrats now have a chance to make hay out of the GOP jobs plan, like they did with Rep. Paul Ryan's attack on Medicare. With the economy the most pressing issue for American voters, this this puny plan provides more political ammo for the Ds. Yet if they attack the GOPers on jobs, they'll have to be able to present a strong case that they can do better, and the last election shows how much of a challenge that can be.

John Boehner's Pathetic 10-Page Jobs Plan

The problem is, that when the dems win the house back they will flounder around for two years, lower taxes on the rich, and continue the corporate welfare state.

In other words, the dems do not have much of plan either. At least not one that has been articulated - much less enacted.

[madrchsod]

5. well that was interesting...

[NYC_SKP]

6. More work visas (cheaper than fixing education), and drill baby drill, fewer regulations, more...

INTRODUCTION

Free markets, free enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurship are the foundation for economic growth and job creation in America. For the past four years, Democrats in Washington have enacted policies that undermine these basic concepts which have historically placed America at the forefront of the global marketplace. As a result, most Americans know someone who has recently lost a job, and small businesses and entrepreneurs lack the confidence needed to invest in our economy. Not since the Great Depression has our nation’s unemployment rate been this high this long.

Enough is enough. More taxation, regulation, and litigation will not create more jobs. Government takeovers of the economy have failed while the size and the scope of the federal government has exploded. Washington has tied the hands of small business owners and job creators with onerous regulations and backward fiscal policies that have stalled the economy, slowed innovation and destroyed jobs. We need common sense, pro-growth policies to give small businesses and entrepreneurs renewed confidence in our economy and to remove Washington as the roadblock to job creation.

America is at a crossroads and House Republicans are committed to taking every possible step to spur job creation and get our economy back on track so that Americans can do what they do best: create, innovate and lead. The pro-growth agenda detailed below builds on the GOP Pledge to America, our governing agenda focused on job creation and economic growth. It will address our economic challenges, foster innovation and investment, and help job creators without raising taxes on working families and small business owners.

More at their pretty middle-class and union killing website:

http://www.gop.gov/pledge/jobs

[Roy Rolling]

7. The way to create jobs

is more tax cuts for the wealthiest? Why not, it's worked before...not. :sarcasm:

THIS JUST IN: JOHN BOEHNER ANNOUNCES TAX CUTS HAVE JUST BEEN FOUND TO BE THE CURE FOR CANCER. :-)

[DCBob]

8. I would expect the GOP jobs plan to be two words..

reduce taxes.

[SpiralHawk]

9. Hey, you tax-dodging Republicon billionaire blowhards: Where are the jobs?

We Americans want the jobs you promised. Where are they?

Stop dicking around on the golf course with your fatcat cronies. You got your special tax cuts for the rich. Now deliver the jobs your promised.

[lonestarnot]

10. 10 page jobs coloring book.

[R. P. McMurphy]

12. They couldn't even spell check.

Look on page 5 in the last paragraph and you will see the term "moneearned." Also, they didn't bother to space uniformly between bullet points and paragraphs. I guess that in a document that is devoid of actual content, misspelling and formatting errors don't really matter.

[jimlup]

13. They don't expect it to get approved or anything...

They just need something so that they can answer the charge that "they have no jobs plan" when that charge comes. It is true but now they have the ability to obfuscate which is what they do best.

I find it remarkable that the American people tolerate the Republicans as much as they do. If they bothered to actually learn the facts, most Americans would be mad as hell.

[HopeHoops]

14. He must have used a large font if it took 10 pages to write "Hello. Welcome to WalMart."

[Urban Prairie]

15. Plan???

There ain't no plan!!





The "best" (worst) that the Rethugs and their rightwinger ilk WISH that they could do "for" (to) this country is to legislatively implement and then "execute" their "personal responsibility" mantra, through eliminating every single government program and service that aids and/or assists US citizens, and as an "end" result, rapidly speed up population "attrition" by indirectly killing off tens of millions of the disabled, poor, infirm, and elderly in one fell swoop.



They are pro-embryo/fetus sociopaths who do NOT care about anyone's lives but their own. They ALL are, through bigotry, fear, ignorance or purely selfish intent, an ever-menacing threat to the very survival of anyone who is temporarily OR permanently unable to support themselves.

[stevedeshazer]

16. Ten pounds of bullshit in a five pound sack.

Anyone who believes this is dumber than a box of rocks.

This plan is an excellent plan. For a new, smaller Republican minority in 2012.

[Bubba Kush]

17. IOTW, Boehner failed to do his duty.

Boehner needs to resign his seat, go home, and be a fucking bum.

[Urban Prairie]

18. The "condensed" version of the Rethug's "jobs" plan

Permit business to create, then sell and/or lease products and/or services, no matter if exploitative, defective, damaged, corrupted, fraudulent, destructive, inoperable, copyrighted, criminal, poisonous, polluting, infected, and/or life/health threatening-endangering, and w/o the need for any concern of the potential, liability, or possibility of being taxed, penalized, accused-suspected/arrested/convicted/sentenced, imprisoned or sued, b/c the "free market" can/will "police" itself.

Eliminate the FLSA and completely do away with all other regulations, and minimum wage/age restrictions as well.

Import any type of foreign labor for any length of time required, and export any jobs necessary to ensure profit(s) at corporate will.

Freely poison, pollute, and/or permanently damage the ecology and environment, and drain the US of any/all of its natural resources, in the quest for quick capitalist profits, by any means necessary.


Drill, baby, drill!!

[intaglio]

19. Under 2000 words and not spell checked

What an amateurish effort

[onethatcares]

20. basically it boils down to

let's get rid of the federal minimum wage and the benefits that the serfs have gotten used to like paid days off, i.e.; Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, but most of all let's get this country going in a business friendly enviroment.

Toss out those pesky clean water, air regulations, let us rape the land and if things go bad, we can always cover it up.

Dammints, I'm not feeling very Memorial day at this point.:shrug: