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PVperson2 says:
Since the republican stance is that tax cuts for the rich and corporations produce jobs, why are we not asking where are those jobs that the cuts were supposed to produce? You can't have it both ways GOP.
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usf89 says:
Vitter is more interested in women of ill repute than the travails of the common American, he is nothing more than a talking head for the Republican machine working for the wealthy elite...his motto is "The let peasants eat cake",Marie Antionette...1789...
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radsenior says:
David Vitter has been drinking too much! Everyone must sacrifice no matter what station in life you are! Our Republic requires it! Our Democracy requires it! Anyone and everyone must share pain and gain. The richest have no real reason to complain, for they are the least needy and no matter their refrain. America has obligations to meet. It can't be done without cutting spending and increasing revenue. It certainly can't be done overnight. President Obama cannot hire US out of the recession! President Obama cannot legislate US out of the recession! Only the Congress can legislate the laws to generate jobs! Only the Congress can control the monies for any projects. All the nay sayers keep trying to pin the recession on the president when in fact it occurred from the previous administration's actions/in-actions and corporate greed. All the actions of the previous Congress(111th Congress) have effected a stoppage of the recession and a definite and positive direction no matter what the GOP/TEA party and the talking heads are saying! The current Congress(112th Congress) has passed no jobs generating legislation! The current Congress has been crippled by fanatics!
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gadfly65 says:
How does he propose that this growth will happen when the income of working people is stagnant while the ultra-rich take more wealth out of circulation?
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afmcalax says:
The BIG LIE for the Republicans is that during the 8 years of Bush the Younger when taxes were low, regulations were non-existent, and business got everything they asked for ... the number of private sector jobs DECREASED. So much for caving to big business. All it did was create huge monopolies that eventually failed while giving Wall Street and CEOs huge bonuses. And the Republicans are ready to do it again!
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web6242a says:
Exactly how many Job creating Bills have the GOP, in the House and Senate put forth in the last 3 years --- you know that Job Stimulating Republican legislation that Obama vetoed --- Oh there was none -- not one bill !!! The GOP are like arsonists who started a fire in a movie theatre, ---- who then yelled Fire Fire, Fire, as everyone runs out. They helped create the very deficit they are now whining about, through total ineptitude!!!! The Bush tax cuts (enacted during wartime) were (along with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars) two primarily GOP enacted policies which emptied the Treasury and contributed immensely to our deficit.No other administration from George Washington through to Clinton was stupid enough to prosecute war while enacting tax cuts. Only an imbecile like Dumbya could conceive of such an economic catastrophe!! we are paying the price of his folly!!! Any fool knows you cannot prosecute two simultaneous wars, and cut taxes at the same time, without causing extreme economic disaster. Whine Republicans whine about the deficit your incompetent policies helped to create!!!!!!
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vielmann says:
Vitter, what bloody growth? You wealthy slobs have managed to rape our system with your taxpayer funded subsidies, tax cuts and banking scams, and you're planning on raping some more. So take your bloody plans for "GROWTH" of your banking accounts at taxpayer expense and stuff 'em down your throat.
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web6242a replies:
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Socialist Govt. subsidies are perfectly fine to the GOP as long as they go to Oil Companies, and wealthy constituents!!! Socialism is only a bad word to them when it helps the poor.
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wyo-kid says:
We need to put more people to work finding and prosecuting the scumbags who make fraudulent Medicare claims. Also the ones on welfare and SS disability that are doing it fraudulently. Eliminate military contract overruns. The Pentagon needs to become much more concerned about getting what they pay for. They need to get more bounce for the buck. Close all tax loop holes and rescind all the Bush tax cuts until the national debt is cut by 75%.
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juryrig says:
This is vintage Newt Gingrich Contract With America Horse Apples. the money always floats to the top. It never trickles down. It is a law of economic physics that the people with power will coral the money. The workers get scraps. ALWAYS
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sandiegopete says:
From 1990 to 2000 we had an average real GDP per capita growth rate of 2.7%. After the Bush tax cuts of 2001 the average real GDP per capita growth rate fell to 0.7% for the period 2001 to 2010. Supply-side economics failed.

There are three things that need to be done to turn our economy around:

First, repeal all of the Bush/Obama tax cuts.
Second: Invest in repairing our nation's decaying infrastructure. We have kicked that can down the road long enough.
Third: Initiate a surtax on all income for any company that is domiciled in the United States but produces goods overseas and sold in the United States. The surtax would be a factor of the value of the foreign produced goods sold in the United States and apply to all U.S. income of those companies. That may discourage some of our companies from moving jobs overseas. If they want to take advantage of the dearth of labor laws in other countries let them pay for it or get out of our markets. I am sure there are many entrepreneurs left in the U.S. who would like to compete on a level playing field with other U.S. producers.
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rightbehind replies:
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I agree the Obama tax cuts for the wealthy need to go and we need to repair our infrastructure. This president has been way too centrist. The "audacity of compromise" would be more fitting for this president. Too late to run a real democrat against him.
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