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Economy GOP's Job Plan
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:29 AM
It’s been over three months since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and strengthened their caucus in the Senate. The central premise of the GOP midterm campaign was that it could create badly needed jobs—the Republican National Committee drove a bus through the lower 48 states emblazoned with the slogan: “Need a Job? Fire Pelosi!”Now, after focusing its initial legislative efforts on repealing “ObamaCare,” pushing Tea Party-backed dreams like a balanced budget amendment, and fighting to strip regulatory agencies of their authority, the GOP has finally released a job plan…that consists of a balanced budget amendment, the repeal of Obamacare, and several assaults on regulatory authority.
What will the GOP's job plan do? Essentially put the breaks on this:
Job growth has been strong since the beginning of the year, with 768,000 jobs added since January. And Friday's report also showed that 46,000 more jobs were added in February and March than previously thought.Seriously, read the whole Nation article. It is amazing how the GOP gets away with such rubbish as this: "The first part of the plan attempts to attack the federal deficit." It is amazing how the rural folk who keep them in power can't get a fucking clue. Without Obama's deficit spending, this economy would not be recovering at all. It would instead be like the night when all of your cows are black. Do you rural types understand that? Does this get through your thickness? These night cows?
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Charles - you must understand that Obama is black thus everything he has done or will do is bad, bad, bad. The GOP by default is obviously good because they oppose the black man.
Do not forget this simple truism.
Do not forget this simple truism.
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As a formerly rural guy, I have no clue what that line about black cows means. Without Obama's deficit spending, our economy would be bumping into stuff in the dark...?
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I get it about the rural people. I do. I lived there for a long time. But it's not being rural that makes them gullible, it's being uneducated and feeling insecure about that lack of sophistication. The GOP play right into that ("real Americans" vs "elitists," etc). Let's not get upset with people for not wanting to live in a city. That's not the problem so much as the education system that failed them.
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Charles, you are amazingly clueless.
Republicans may do nothing economically for rural America, but Democrats do virtually nothing economically. As far as rural America is concerned, at least Republicans uphold their cultural values.
And by the way, it's not rural America that's hurting economically anyway.
Republicans may do nothing economically for rural America, but Democrats do virtually nothing economically. As far as rural America is concerned, at least Republicans uphold their cultural values.
And by the way, it's not rural America that's hurting economically anyway.
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