Boehner to Call for Bipartisan Action to “Liberate America’s Economy”

[Kadie]

PREVIEW: Speaker Boehner to Call for Bipartisan Action to “Liberate America’s Economy,” Spur Private-Sector Job Growth

Posted by Katie Boyd on September 15, 2011


In an address to the Economic Club of Washington today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) will call for bipartisan action to “Liberate America’s Economy” from the shackles of excessive regulation, higher taxes, and out-of-control spending that are stifling private-sector economic growth and job creation. Here is a preview:


President’s Proposal Offers “Opportunities for Common Ground,” But No Substitute for What’s Needed “To Remove Barriers to Job Creation.”

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“Key to Jump Starting Growth is to Get Government Out of the Way.”

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“Tax Increases…Are Not An Option.”

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No More “‘Short-Term Gimmicks’ That Could Worsen the Environment for Job Creators.”

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“Address the Structural Problems” That Put America “In Danger of More Job-Destroying Downgrades.”

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http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?postid=260188

[Avalux]

1. Vile. He and his fellow Republicans are all vile and traitors to this country. Liberate??? n/t

[Kadie]

3. Liberate sounded odd to me. So I looked it up at dictionary.com for fun...

Pick the one you think works best! :)


lib·er·ate   
verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.

1. to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.

2. to free (a nation or area) from control by a foreign or oppressive government.

3. to free (a group or individual) from social or economic constraints or discrimination, especially arising from traditional role expectations or bias.

4. to disengage; set free from combination, as a gas.

5. Slang . to steal or take over illegally: The soldiers liberated a consignment of cigarettes.


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dictionary.com

[liberal N proud]

2. Woohoo - he wants to work with the President

[maxsolomon]

4. they got nothin'

it's all catch phrases and anecdotes. big corporations provide top staff and set the agenda for our government. the only thing standing in their way is an EPA that's not fully neutered.

tax increases sure as fuck are an option. this government needs more revenue: we've been at war for 10 years and we're in a DEPRESSION created by deregulation THEY APPROVED. they are the epitome of irresponsibility, or they're just fucking stupid.

i despise them on the issues. i despise the way they dress. i despise their haircuts. i have never and will never vote for a republican.

[kiranon]

5. "Liberate the U.S. economy - End corporate personhood."

Makes a great bumper sticker. Glad to see Boehner onboard for changing Supreme Court opinion on corporate personhood. That is how to liberate the economy. But I expect Boehner means end taxes and regulation on corporations so workers can be enslaved. It's time for Congressional compensation to be tied to the minimum wage. But, there is no chance of that happening. We are now in the barter stage of representative democracy - "You want A then give up already legislated XY & Z." It's the Republicans very clever way of undoing prior election results without the bother of another election cycle.

[HappyMe]

6. They can't wait to dump the EPA,

safety & health regulations and on and on.


He's not The Orange Man anymore. He's the Orange Devil.

[BlueDemKev]

7. Boehner wants WHAT?? BIPARTISANSHIP???

Yeah, because he's shown SO MUCH bipartisanship over the years....

We'll work with you just as much as you have worked with us, Bonehead.

[librechik]

10. Bipartisanship is when the dems adapt all the repub ideas AND genuflect

I guess Obama has not been bowing and scraping low enough to his Orange Master

[sinkingfeeling]

8. What barriers to job creation went up since Obama became president? It's the same damn environment

that existed between 2001 and 2009!

[dennis4868]

9. he's calling to do...

the same old bullshit that got us in this mess in the first place...I am sure he is fooling alot of people but not us :-)

[DefenseLawyer]

11. A return to the 90's!

The 1890's. Shouldn't be much trouble getting bipartisan support for that. No taxes, no regulation, no labor laws. If it was good enough for Carnegie and Vanderbuilt then it's good enough for us. Have you seen Vanderbuilt's house? Who wouldn't want a house like that?

[whosinpower]

12. It is the roaring 1920's they yearn for

They forget about the 1930's depression/hangover from it.

[DefenseLawyer]

15. Are you kidding? There was an income tax in the 1920's!

Can't have any of that. No, the Gilded Age, my friend, that's where it's at.

[whosinpower]

20. They use the 1920's as an example

Where tax cuts helped grow the economy.

Except - Bush tax cuts did no such thing.
Obama doubled down on the tax cuts - and they still did no such thing.

I do not believe the rate of taxes is the primary cause of the global malaise we face right now. That is that lowering taxes will increase growth. Nor do I believe that regulations is the primary cause of the global malaise we face right now.

[spanone]

13. lies...there is not a square inch of common ground

[cui bono]

14. We all know what he means by bipartisan.

And anyway, Obama does the bipartisan thing and it isn't working.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Save our corporations!

Our corporations are facing discrimination and are being denied the right to accumulate wealth. Free the economy!

[newspeak]

19. I thought little boots already "liberated" the corporations

isn't that why they increased their profits by 88% while wages for labor has barely seen one percent increase? Didn't he understaff some regulatory departments like USDA and FDA while giving his corporate friends appointments to those agencies? Didn't he give his corporate and greedy friends a tax decrease that has been ongoing for over ten years now and it has not produced jobs, but they have all accumulated more wealth and power? I thought most of his friends are either sitting on the wealth or investing overseas, not in this country that's because they are all great americans, such patriots they'd never want to see a fellow american suffer, right? Or see our infrastructure deteriorate to the point we look like a third world nation, right?

So, Boner wants to do the same damn thing until all of the wealth is distributed to the top and they won't have to worry about those pesky plebes anymore. Especially, if under deregulation, we can contaminate enough of them they'll just die off.

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. The problem is that the money is not being distributed to the working class.

The rich just keep crying poor mouth, but they're not doing their part.

We live in an each man for himself society. This will be a nightmare the day we rely solely on private sector to create jobs. In fact, we are seeing the consequences already. They are HOARDERS! We need a reality show on the subject to get the point across.

[msongs]

17. evidently kissing Boner's butt is not an effective presidential strategy lol nt

[VWolf]

18. Whenever a rupub uses the word "liberate" or "freedom,"

be afraid.

Be very afraid.