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Where is the Republican Job plan?
John Boehner, Oct 8, 2010: “Let me be crystal clear, it if isn’t clear already: this speech is about jobs. And this speech is about jobs, because this coming election is about jobs.”
“We can help small businesses get back to creating jobs.”
In this speech, while asking voters to give Republicans control of the House, Congressman Boehner goes on to talk about several things that could be done to create a better atmosphere for business and job growth. However 7 months after winning the election for control of the House and 5 months after taking control of the House Speaker Boehner has jet to even introduce one bill to accomplish this election promise to the American people, not one.
John Boehner has brought many bills to the floor that either has no chance to pass in the Senate (ACA Repeal & Ryan Budget) or for political posturing only but he has not even tried to bring any bill to the floor for a vote that helps businesses to create jobs. Why is that – you’ve got to wonder?
Beverly -
The GOP job plan is in place and being solidified at every opportunity. Give big business everything they want and screw the little guy, then big business will pour money into your campaign and you can get reelected and keep your job! If you are going to focus on jobs, it is best to focus on your own first.
Tomorrow they will focus on jobs for everyone else.
just be the patient dog. tax cuts and medicare will implode in teapublicants house. how they'll dodge these time bombs is yet to be known.
Just a little patience - in the long run, things will work out.
Of, course, in the long run, we'll die of old age too.
Better question is
How's the President's job plan that was passed in December working out??
Double dip here we come...
Heee Haw!!
Maxx, It seems you and the rest of the Republicans/Tea party people are over joyed at the thought of unemployment staying at a high level, just so they will have something to campaign on. No matter how much American people are suffering from being unemployed, if that helps your political party then you are for it. That line of thought is UN-American and you should try to get your party to help instead of hindering. Please don't tell me how cutting taxes are going to create jobs as I have been watching that movie for ten years and it has not helped. It has helped to create the mess we are in.
Seattle,
When “your” party had complete control what did the President do? He sent a trillion dollar stimulus to “jump start the economy” . It failed not because it wasn't enough or anything else he simply didn't know what the h-ll he was doing and the congress went right along with it because they didn't know what the h-ll they were doing either!! The only people the stimulus helped was the unions to shore up their pension funds, shovel ready projects... garbage. Just like the healthcare law ... he spent a year with that piece of sh-- instead of focusing on jobs!!! Do you see a picture forming here or has the fog of liberalism got into your view of reality!! I don't give a da-n about this party or that party, it is people like you that are the problem or the "Un-American" ones not someone like me who has a different point of view then you know it all Liberals!!
Now back to my question
How is the Presidents job plan working out??
Is it going to fail too or is this more change you can believe in?
You tell me miss know it all!!
Very good post Maxx,
What's this article?? Have a little patience?? I can imagine swarms of unemployed hungry Americans in tattered cloths attending mass anti-Obama demonstrations. Something like the huge anti-Vietnam protests of the sixties.
Now that would be something the media couldn't cover up for long. They might call them tea-bagger nuts, till they find out how many used to be registered Democrats.
Question: How many times do you have to fail before you are called an utter failure?? Is this the new standard for America?? No matter how dismal your record, you are always called a winner, and given a little plastic trophy??
Is that how they do it in school nowadays?? Does that same ideology carry over all the way to the Presidency??
Viewed in this light, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Obama for nothing, starts to make sense.
Bev, The Republican plan is to break up unions, lower the minimum wage, dry up student loan money and reduce the teaching profession to a demoralized force of underpaid, aging people all with second jobs.
No doubt urban dwellers will be sent to work on collective farms at some point. That seems to be the vision of the Teapublicans.
Rotten people...Who do they think they are giving student loan forgiveness to teachers and allowing the system to "dry up"? Furthermore, who do they think they are trying to get the teachers, particularly in Wisconsin, to pay more for their own retirement plans than their union dues... Idiots
The President may not be worried about the country slipping into a double dip recession again but I am. A recovery with no job growth, the housing market the lowest it's been since 2002, foreclosures on the rise again. manufacturing non existent, GNP down. Yeah, small growths for the last 7 months but nothing to show the markets and the investors it's time to get back in. Too much uncertainty, way too much risk and with the economy still at a tipping point, the returns are still not in as to when the recovery that the American people will feel will begin
The president doesn't have time to worry about a double dip recession because he is worried about getting re-elected. He also is polishing up his lies and promises. Remember the shovel-ready jobs and the stimulus? Just more of the same hope and change and yes we can BS.
i like the comment about teachers working two jobs. that's the way it was when i started in 1969, but thanks to legalized bargaining income and benefits improved greatly and in turn so did the nations workers. since regan everything has been in a downward spiral 98% losing money and the top 2% quadrupling money???
Our economy has become more about managing financial wealth and less about production of goods. This is a result of the 1980s de-regulation of the financial industry and the government's hands-off approach to economic policy. In simple terms, this recession is structural and not the normal business cycle downturn. I would think we are experiencing a normal business cycle occuring within the overall recession. This happens and President Obama is correct when he says things will get better. However, it's the when that nobody alive can predict. We are Americans and we will make it through this temporary setback.
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The average teacher in Maine retires on $19,000 a year, and is ineligible for Social Security, even if they paid into it from another job. Our Tea Publican governor raised the amount teachers pay towards their benefits, lowered the amount the state pays, then passed these " savings " on to the wealthiest Mainers by raising the cap on the estate tax from 1 million to 2 million. (Heirs do not pay taxes on the first two million they inherit, now.) Talk about redistributing the wealth upwards. (And discouraging bright people from going into education)
http://bangordailynews.com/2011/03/03/politics/lepage-everyone-will-‘share-the-pain’-of-budget-cuts-2/?ref=mostReadBox
Amy,
Our estates our protected up to 1 million. This is for FEDERAL estate tax. Now the state of Maine may also get their fingers in the pie, but that's your problem for living there.
I intend to slowly pass most of my assets to my kids over the years through gifts. these are non-taxable up to ....I believe $20,000 per year, per kid. (I will have to check on the amount)
The liquid assets are easy, just convert to cash and slip each kid a fat envelope (mafia style) every so often. LOL Whatever I do, I promise the IRS will not see a dime of my nest egg. I would burn it first.
The GOP/TEA party are nowhere conservatives - The GOP/TEA party are liberal - The state of the economy is not the fault of the president, but the fault of the 112th Congress. The 112th Congress said they would generate jobs in their efforts to get the economy going. They lied! The 112th Congress said they would work with the president on the economy. They lied! The 112th Congress has failed to fund legislation of the previous Congress in their effort to change the legislation that would make a real difference in America. The US economy is floundering due to the efforts of The 112th Congress. The 112th Congress has passed no meaningful legislation in five months. The 112th Congress is forcing their narrow-minded Social Conservatism on the American public. The 112th Congress is the real "Liberals' in America. They are liberal to and for the richest two percent(2%) of Americans. The 112th Congress is the real "Liberals' in America by failing to enhance tax rates on the richest American who control forty percent(40%) of the wealth in America. President Obama has shown true leadership by standing head-to-head with the "Scorched Earth" GOP/TEA party members and their "Paul Ryan Manifesto".
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