1stlttightwad says: Different plans for job growth...Hmm, ever seen Made by the US Gov on the products you buy?
Quite a one-sided opinion, knowing that the federal government is not in the manufacturing business, but certainly has funded many business incubators in many economic sectors, and created all kinds of jobs in the military-industrial complex as well as road and bridge construction for just two examples.
Personally, I like to see the grassroots movement that is organizing and lobbying for AMERICAN MADE PRODUCTS today, since this will help both our economy and the hardworking middle class:
The Made in America Movement
We are a nonpartisan organization lobbying for American made manufacturers, small business owners, mom & pop stores, local boutiques and service providers. We are dedicated to encouraging consumers to buy American made products; providing our members with resources to expand their use of U.S. made products.
zmonkee says: Sessions said, "He has no effective plan to create better jobs, more hiring or rising wages."
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Considering that over 2.2 million private sector jobs were created in 2012, with last month's 246,000 in many sectors like health care and construction, I'd say sessions is lying out of both sides of his racist mouth, mainly because of his hatred of blacks and President Obama!
We've had 37 months of private sector job creation which sure beats losing 750,000 jobs per month during the Great Recession, and if we didn't have such a big hole to climb out of due to trickle-down economics, today's job creation would appear even brighter.
I'm sorry you are so pessimistic in your attitude, and my suggestion is to stop listening to right-wing propaganda and republicans like sessions!
zmonkee replies: not saying I agree with your comments....but is he incorrect with the above quote? (Sessions said, "yet his plans are focused on growing government - not the economy.)
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You don't have to agree with my comments, but sessions failed to gain Senate confirmation for a judgeship due to racist comments, as FOUR Department of Justice lawyers who had worked with Sessions testified that he had made several racist statements. They testified under oath, so I have to believe sessions is just another southern racist hating blacks!
As far as his ridiculous comment about "growing government," the facts and figures are clearly seen by non-partisan Americans not listening to right-wing propaganda, that George Bush clearly grew our government by leaps and bounds compared to both Clinton and Obama. Take your partisan blinders off, and research the facts for a change!
From Murdoch's Wall Street Journal:
Obama spending binge never happened
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.
FOX_PARROTS_LIE replies: Bruce Bartlett continues:
"They (republicans) would also have us believe that all of the increase in debt resulted solely from higher spending, nothing from lower revenues caused by tax cuts.
Lastly, Republicans continue to insist that tax cuts are highly stimulative, often saying that they add nothing to the debt, when this is obviously ridiculous.
Conversely, they are adamant that tax increases must not be part of any deficit-reduction package because they never reduce deficits and instead are spent. This is also ridiculous, as the experience of the Clinton administration clearly shows. The new C.B.O. data confirm these facts."
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Historically speaking, it certainly appears that Bruce Bartlett has removed the curtain from outlandish republican ideology, and shows they are just a bankrupt party proposing the same trickle down economics today that has never worked in the past - just to enrich the wealthy while enslaving the middle and lower classes.
Hopefully one of the budgets will do something about this?
On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it's ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of last year. 47,791,996 people were on the program in the month of December 2012. The federal government also says that in a given month in 2012, the number of households on food stamps was 22,329,713.
Washington, D.C., with an estimated population of 617,996, had an average of 141,147 participants. Meaning, roughly 23 percent of folks living in D.C. are on food stamps, according to the numbers provided by the federal government. Over the weekend, a top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that the Obama administration is encouraging growth in the food stamps program as a way to stimulate the economy. "Amazingly, the federal government says that the more people we have on food stamps, the more it grows the economy. The Department of Agriculture proudly declares: 'Each $5 in new [food stamp] benefits generates almost twice that amount in economic activity for the community.' Our government is running food stamp promotions at foreign embassies. One worker was given an award for overcoming 'mountain pride' and getting more people to sign up. Where I grew up in Alabama, all honest work, even the hardest, was honored. And pride, self-respect, and a desire to be independent was valued, not a thing to be overcome," said the Senator, who delivered the weekly Republican address. It was also pointed out that cities like Baltimore, which he said have have been "governed by liberal policies for decades," see particularly high numbers of participation in the program. "Despite this fountain of federal funds, 1 in 3 children still live in poverty in our nation's capital. Two in three children live in single parent homes. In nearby Baltimore--another city governed by liberal policies for decades--1 in 3 residents are on food stamps and in 1 in 3 youth live in poverty. Americans are committed to helping our sisters and brothers who are struggling, but we are seeing the damaging human consequences of our broken welfare state," said the Senator. "We spend a trillion dollars each year on federal poverty programs. That's more than the budget for Social Security or Defense. But poverty seems only to increase. Something is wrong."
zmonkee says: Hopefully one of the budgets will do something about this?
Of course you already know that teapublican darling, paul ryan, will introduce his ayn rand budget tomorrow, which will cut many things from our safety net like food stamps, so we will have more hungry Americans in the wealthiest nation in the world.
As usual, ryan's 2014 budget also calls for the repeal of the PPACA, which means it's a non-starter in the Senate, and only proves that ryan is not serious or wanting to compromise in the least, and only wants to help the wealthy like all GOPers!
FOX_PARROTS_LIE replies: from 1979 to 2011, CEO pay has increased by 780%, while hardworking middle class Americans have seen a whopping 5.6% increase in their paychecks!
1stlttightwad replies: so you favor the poor, the welfare folks and just how many people do "they" employe? IF you don't FAVOR the wealthy who pays the poor, eh..Income equality, yup, I'm really going to pay the janitor the same as the CEO.
Seems that tightwad missed the entire point of the original post, which didn't hint at equal pay in the least - just that while CEO pay has soared since 1979, middle class pay has been completely flat while the GOP has waged a war on unions and sent millions of jobs overseas increasing unemployment.
Apparently your schooling didn't teach you much math, since an increase of 780% vs. 5.6% is a huge difference, and points to the original poster's point of a growing income inequality rising completely off the charts.
If we cannot increase the pay of our middle and low class workers, while giving the lion's share just to those at the very top, we will continue to create more of a 'class warfare' state as upward mobility continues to decline, and the majority of consumers will not have any disposable income.
"President Obama speaks of his deep concern for struggling Americans," Sessions said, "yet his plans are focused on growing government - not the economy. He has no effective plan to create better jobs, more hiring or rising wages. That's what's missing."
Also....per the stock market doing well, but the economy, mostly middle class and under, still struggling......Had this been Romney-(or any Repbulican in office), all the dems would be outraged saying they are just looking after the wealthy--
I see you must support the ultra-conservative, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, who failed Senate confirmation for a judgeship in 1986 due to racist remarks. At Sessions' confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, four Department of Justice lawyers who had worked with Sessions testified that he had made several racist statements.
Apparently you must also like his statements about the NAACP, as "un-American" and "Communist-inspired" because they "forced civil rights down the throats of people," and his outright dislike of President Obama because of his race.
No, sessions is not correct in either his racist attitude or his right-wing propaganda trying to paint President Obama as more interested in growing government more than creating jobs. The facts are not on his side or yours.
I'm prepared to listen to arguments in favor of shifting Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment to "chained CPI" on the day AFTER all of the following changes are signed into law:
-Capital gains, dividends, and "carried interest" taxed as ordinary income
-Capital gains, dividends, and "carried interest," as well as earnings above the current "cap," subject to the individual's share of FICA tax
-U.S. corporations taxed on ALL income, domestic and foreign, with U.S. tax reduced by the amount of foreign tax actually paid only
-Limits on the tax deductibility of interest payments for corporations, to reduce the current Code's perverse incentives encouraging businesses (and particularly banks and other financial firms) to overleverage themselves
-Elimination of ALL individual and corporate tax expenditures that benefit fewer than 33% of the individuals and corporations who file federal returns
These changes would BEGIN to eliminate the "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the current U.S. Tax Code that has driven the obscene, cancerous growth of income and wealth inequality in the United States over the past 30 years.
If, once we've made these changes, we're still concerned about the future viability of safety-net programs like Social Security and Medicare, we MIGHT want to talk about "entitlement reform." Until that day, the idea of slashing future benefits for seniors living on $22,000 a year so hedge fund gurus and corporate CEOs can earn millions and even billions a year while paying less than 20% in taxes is simply insane!
As was reported by CBS two days ago, the median household income in the USA as continued to drop since 2000. Today it is 7.3% lower than it was in January 2000. That is the major problem with our economy as well as with out government funding.
As the median income continues to drop that means less tax revenue for government at all levels. Less tax revenue means less money to pay for things like national defense, food and drug safety, border protection, education.
While jobs are being created in private industry, they seem to be lower paying jobs like those in restaurants and automobile oil changing shops. At the same time Silicon Valley claims it needs to be able to import more H-1B visa workers to perform higher paying jobs because the United States educational system is incapable of producing enough U.S. citizens qualified to do the type of work Silicon Valley needs done.
The Democrats and the Republicans may well have economic plans in the works. I would be very surprised if either party were to provide a plan that would have a realistic chance of reversing the downward trend in median household income. So, the only question is how do they plan to fund our government in the face of a continuing decline in median household income?
One way to increase jobs in the USA would be to follow the Chinese model and not regulate air emissions or workplace safety. That way we could increase manufacturing and as an added bonus we could have the same air quality as Beijing. Beijing air quality seems to be the goal of the fossil fuel industry.
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Quite a one-sided opinion, knowing that the federal government is not in the manufacturing business, but certainly has funded many business incubators in many economic sectors, and created all kinds of jobs in the military-industrial complex as well as road and bridge construction for just two examples.
Personally, I like to see the grassroots movement that is organizing and lobbying for AMERICAN MADE PRODUCTS today, since this will help both our economy and the hardworking middle class:
The Made in America Movement
We are a nonpartisan organization lobbying for American made manufacturers, small business owners, mom & pop stores, local boutiques and service providers. We are dedicated to encouraging consumers to buy American made products; providing our members with resources to expand their use of U.S. made products.
www.themadeinamericamovement.com
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Walmart Plans to Buy American More Often
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/business/walmart-to-offer-more-us-made-goods.html?_r=0
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Considering that over 2.2 million private sector jobs were created in 2012, with last month's 246,000 in many sectors like health care and construction, I'd say sessions is lying out of both sides of his racist mouth, mainly because of his hatred of blacks and President Obama!
We've had 37 months of private sector job creation which sure beats losing 750,000 jobs per month during the Great Recession, and if we didn't have such a big hole to climb out of due to trickle-down economics, today's job creation would appear even brighter.
I'm sorry you are so pessimistic in your attitude, and my suggestion is to stop listening to right-wing propaganda and republicans like sessions!
========================
You don't have to agree with my comments, but sessions failed to gain Senate confirmation for a judgeship due to racist comments, as FOUR Department of Justice lawyers who had worked with Sessions testified that he had made several racist statements. They testified under oath, so I have to believe sessions is just another southern racist hating blacks!
As far as his ridiculous comment about "growing government," the facts and figures are clearly seen by non-partisan Americans not listening to right-wing propaganda, that George Bush clearly grew our government by leaps and bounds compared to both Clinton and Obama. Take your partisan blinders off, and research the facts for a change!
From Murdoch's Wall Street Journal:
Obama spending binge never happened
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor
"They (republicans) would also have us believe that all of the increase in debt resulted solely from higher spending, nothing from lower revenues caused by tax cuts.
Lastly, Republicans continue to insist that tax cuts are highly stimulative, often saying that they add nothing to the debt, when this is obviously ridiculous.
Conversely, they are adamant that tax increases must not be part of any deficit-reduction package because they never reduce deficits and instead are spent. This is also ridiculous, as the experience of the Clinton administration clearly shows. The new C.B.O. data confirm these facts."
=============================
Historically speaking, it certainly appears that Bruce Bartlett has removed the curtain from outlandish republican ideology, and shows they are just a bankrupt party proposing the same trickle down economics today that has never worked in the past - just to enrich the wealthy while enslaving the middle and lower classes.
On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps program, officially known as SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). The numbers reveal, in 2012, the food stamps program was the biggest it's ever been, with an average of 46,609,072 people on the program every month of last year. 47,791,996 people were on the program in the month of December 2012.
The federal government also says that in a given month in 2012, the number of households on food stamps was 22,329,713.
Washington, D.C., with an estimated population of 617,996, had an average of 141,147 participants. Meaning, roughly 23 percent of folks living in D.C. are on food stamps, according to the numbers provided by the federal government.
Over the weekend, a top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, said that the Obama administration is encouraging growth in the food stamps program as a way to stimulate the economy.
"Amazingly, the federal government says that the more people we have on food stamps, the more it grows the economy. The Department of Agriculture proudly declares: 'Each $5 in new [food stamp] benefits generates almost twice that amount in economic activity for the community.' Our government is running food stamp promotions at foreign embassies. One worker was given an award for overcoming 'mountain pride' and getting more people to sign up. Where I grew up in Alabama, all honest work, even the hardest, was honored. And pride, self-respect, and a desire to be independent was valued, not a thing to be overcome," said the Senator, who delivered the weekly Republican address.
It was also pointed out that cities like Baltimore, which he said have have been "governed by liberal policies for decades," see particularly high numbers of participation in the program.
"Despite this fountain of federal funds, 1 in 3 children still live in poverty in our nation's capital. Two in three children live in single parent homes. In nearby Baltimore--another city governed by liberal policies for decades--1 in 3 residents are on food stamps and in 1 in 3 youth live in poverty. Americans are committed to helping our sisters and brothers who are struggling, but we are seeing the damaging human consequences of our broken welfare state," said the Senator.
"We spend a trillion dollars each year on federal poverty programs. That's more than the budget for Social Security or Defense. But poverty seems only to increase. Something is wrong."
Of course you already know that teapublican darling, paul ryan, will introduce his ayn rand budget tomorrow, which will cut many things from our safety net like food stamps, so we will have more hungry Americans in the wealthiest nation in the world.
As usual, ryan's 2014 budget also calls for the repeal of the PPACA, which means it's a non-starter in the Senate, and only proves that ryan is not serious or wanting to compromise in the least, and only wants to help the wealthy like all GOPers!
1stlttightwad replies: so you favor the poor, the welfare folks and just how many people do "they" employe? IF you don't FAVOR the wealthy who pays the poor, eh..Income equality, yup, I'm really going to pay the janitor the same as the CEO.
Seems that tightwad missed the entire point of the original post, which didn't hint at equal pay in the least - just that while CEO pay has soared since 1979, middle class pay has been completely flat while the GOP has waged a war on unions and sent millions of jobs overseas increasing unemployment.
Apparently your schooling didn't teach you much math, since an increase of 780% vs. 5.6% is a huge difference, and points to the original poster's point of a growing income inequality rising completely off the charts.
If we cannot increase the pay of our middle and low class workers, while giving the lion's share just to those at the very top, we will continue to create more of a 'class warfare' state as upward mobility continues to decline, and the majority of consumers will not have any disposable income.
Also....per the stock market doing well, but the economy, mostly middle class and under, still struggling......Had this been Romney-(or any Repbulican in office), all the dems would be outraged saying they are just looking after the wealthy--
Apparently you must also like his statements about the NAACP, as "un-American" and "Communist-inspired" because they "forced civil rights down the throats of people," and his outright dislike of President Obama because of his race.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor
-Capital gains, dividends, and "carried interest" taxed as ordinary income
-Capital gains, dividends, and "carried interest," as well as earnings above the current "cap," subject to the individual's share of FICA tax
-U.S. corporations taxed on ALL income, domestic and foreign, with U.S. tax reduced by the amount of foreign tax actually paid only
-Limits on the tax deductibility of interest payments for corporations, to reduce the current Code's perverse incentives encouraging businesses (and particularly banks and other financial firms) to overleverage themselves
-Elimination of ALL individual and corporate tax expenditures that benefit fewer than 33% of the individuals and corporations who file federal returns
These changes would BEGIN to eliminate the "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the current U.S. Tax Code that has driven the obscene, cancerous growth of income and wealth inequality in the United States over the past 30 years.
If, once we've made these changes, we're still concerned about the future viability of safety-net programs like Social Security and Medicare, we MIGHT want to talk about "entitlement reform." Until that day, the idea of slashing future benefits for seniors living on $22,000 a year so hedge fund gurus and corporate CEOs can earn millions and even billions a year while paying less than 20% in taxes is simply insane!
As the median income continues to drop that means less tax revenue for government at all levels. Less tax revenue means less money to pay for things like national defense, food and drug safety, border protection, education.
While jobs are being created in private industry, they seem to be lower paying jobs like those in restaurants and automobile oil changing shops. At the same time Silicon Valley claims it needs to be able to import more H-1B visa workers to perform higher paying jobs because the United States educational system is incapable of producing enough U.S. citizens qualified to do the type of work Silicon Valley needs done.
The Democrats and the Republicans may well have economic plans in the works. I would be very surprised if either party were to provide a plan that would have a realistic chance of reversing the downward trend in median household income. So, the only question is how do they plan to fund our government in the face of a continuing decline in median household income?