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- It's amazing the number of idiots I get to call countrymen... They still believe in the fantasy that government spending is what creates jobs... Even though, huge government spending didn't create jobs in the Great Depression, nor has record spending in the current recession created jobs...
Liberals try to blame conservatives for jobs going overseas... They never stop to look at the fact that we have like the second highest corporate income tax among the leading economies of the world...
Instead of wanting to correct this, liberals want higher taxes, more regulation on business. Then they try to blame the very people that would actually fix their mess...
A world turned upside down! - Reply to this comment
- Job losses are exactly what the Republican leadership wants, so they can blame it again on Obama and so ruin his chances at leading this country back health and a place of honor in the world and among the youth of this country.
When are we going to smarten up??? Stolen elections, stolen lives of thousands of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, stolen billions somehow evaporated on Wall Street----who do you think is behind all this? Obama/Biden??? Seriously???? Get real. Let's get this country back on track, and now. - Reply to this comment
- Of course...Trim the fat, except at the trough...
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- Both sides sling mud and keep the masses fighting simply so they can continue on with business as usual.
Encouraging infighting guarantees many politicians their careers. It's pitiful. - Reply to this comment
- Federal Budget 2008 - 2.9 Trillion Dollars Revenue 2.7 Trillion Dollars Deficit 239 Billion Debt $9.985 Trillion, (Senator Obama called raising the Debt from $8.5 Trillion, "A failure in Leadership" - Watch what happens when REAL FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP HAPPENS!)
The actual Revenue from Taxes due to the Economy went down to 2.1 Trillion in 2009, and around the same in 2010.
Now, the President proposes a Budget of $3.7 Trillion Dollars!!!!
His own Deficit Reduction Committee suggested $3.2 Trillion, Senator Rand Paul suggested $3.1 Trillion, the Republicans were trying to go to 2008 at $2.9 Trillion****still leaving a Deficit of $800 Billion instead of the $1,600 Billion or $1.6 Trillion the President is asking for.
The only fix is to raise Revenue by actually increasing Taxes 20% to bring in $2.6 Trillion - promising to pay all towards the Deficit, lower Spending to $3.2 Trillion - and then the Federal Reserve Board would make an independent decision to cover the rest.
Idiots! - Reply to this comment
- GOP and TEA PARTY GOERS don't care about cutting jobs and fundings for the necessities for the poor and dwindling middle class, they and their constituents are rich and don't need these jobs and meager necessities.
These rich companies, owned by the rich, outsource their jobs and then get a tax cut. They are unwilling to re-instate the tax cut implemented under the BUSH. They convinced the IDIOTS and KOOL AID DRINKERS that cutting taxes for the rich would create jobs. WHERE ARE THE JOBS.
The REPUBLICANS started a war that cost close to $1-trillion that started the huge deficit and downward spiral of the economy. And yet they refuse to implement the tax for the rich to help pay for the deficit they started. Their policies of deregulations, sleeping during their watch, no safeguards caused this recession for which the poor and dwindling middle class are suffering from.
LET'S VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT AND RECALL THE REST. PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE PROTESTING OVER THESE INEQUALITIES, WE CAN DO THESE BY VOTE AND RECALL. LEARN AND KNOW THE ISSUES... Don't be mislead and mesmerized by the present day JIM JONES. - Reply to this comment
- slappy, why do you always want to start trouble? he's talking about the loss of government jobs, non-government jobs that receive government funding or subsidies, and private industry that supports those public employees. how does that change my question? his 800,000 figure still includes public employees or government funded employees and a careless assumption that none of those public emplyees could be replaced by a private sector job. Just as an example, couldn't you conceive of say, a security guard employed at a federal building losing his job because of these cuts? But his services will still be required so now the slack is picked up by the private sector and now that security guard is employed by the private contractor rather than the public sector. Yes its a loss of a federal job, but a gain to the private sector and it will have no impact on unemployment because its a wash...What is so hard for you to understand about that?
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- by No_Absolutes
2) he's also assuming none of these jobs would be replaced by private sector jobs which is a crazy assumption.
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Still need to work on your reading comprehension, I see.
He never said he was talking about public-sector jobs. - Reply to this comment
- The CBO says Obamacare will cost 800,000 private sector jobs, but you on't see dems calling to end it, do you.
cutting government spending cuts government jobs, and that means fewer bureaucrats coming out of our paychecks, and more governmen $$ for other programs, like Obama's high speed trains to nowhere built by union workers kicking back dues to the democratic party. - Reply to this comment
- im just curious, if we have this massive deficit but we can't cut the sacred cows of entitlement spending, the president has not ended the wars so we have to continue funding them, where are we going to cut spending? if we can only cut in places where people won't get hurt i'm fine with that...just tell me where those places are.
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