Boehner's Recipe For Creating Jobs: Do Nothing

Step four: Job monkeys from Mauritius. We import a whole bunch of them.

To paraphrase:

'We'll go back to how things were under Bush, and everyone will be happy!'

The shame is that, the GOP has their base so brainwashed that anything 'liberal' or 'progressive' is evil, and now, according to Glenn Beck, an enemy of God, they will continue to vote against their own interest.

I weep for my country.

Is it my imagination, or wasn't there a time when the opposition party actually considered facts, and used them in their arguements? I mean, spin and hyperbole always has been, and always will be, a part of politics. It's been that way since the Greeks. But didn't we used to agree on what the basic facts were?

can this guy be any more of an idiot? Same stuff that got us in this mess and he thinks it will help things?

Oh, and tax rates are the lowest they've ever been and he seems to think we're over taxed? What a friggin whack job. But, being that he's a republican I should just expect it.

There is a mistaken notion that "everyone" wants a return to full employment. The unemployed are being crushed while employers are whistling Dixie. Just imagine, less benefits to pay when you have a part-time workforce. More money for political donations to you-know-who. No wonder the GOoPers are unsympathetic to the unemployed.

Repeal, repeal, repeal...until there is nothing left of the corrupt admin's debacle to repeal.

The jobs will follow.

This is like the South Park episode with the elves that stole underwear as a business venture. When asked about their business plan, they said:
Step One: Steal underware.
Step Two: They all just shrug their shoulders.
Step Three: PROFIT!

So boner nose is all about doing nothing. Spread the news far and wide my friends a repuke who will do nothing. What a shock I myself am amazed.

I've been a business owner, have worked in 3 corporations, and have provided consulting expertise to dozens of other businesses. Only since retirement have I had much time to observe the political and government scene.

It's always seemed curious to me how many citizens tend to blame or give credit to government vis a vis the economy.

Over the years it has been my experience that the private sector adds payroll positions and/or lets contracts for goods and services when they see demand rising and can envision how to turn that demand into profitable revenue. It really IS that simple. Before we get all "wee wee'd up" about various public initiatives to (so called) "create jobs", it would be helpful to see evidence that anything government does is central to the private sector creating jobs. As long as that notion is afloat, Obama will get a bum rap. There's not much he can do, and there is not much the GOP could do either.

What's behind what Boehner's position, I think, is that business decision makers --- executives, investors, lenders --- get edgy and draw back when they cannot see a pattern of demand growth in the markets they serve. And to the extent they perceive the government will be required to tax and borrow more, they see that as harmful to the medium and longer term economic climate. Meager demand growth, and substantial government "taking"; that's what too many of them see in their crystal balls.. Boehner chooses to use a few "red meat" phrases to "shorthand" this fundamental perception, and to give a Cliff Notes version of what is something of a philosophical question, and in so doing he dumbs down the overriding concern that has us on a collective finance/econ "pause" status. The root cause of that concern, in my opinion, is that we really do not seem to have a clear and articulated idea about government's impact on the economy, and no visible strategy to guide government intervention so it does more good than harm to the economy.

We have people bloviating about "creating jobs" (or, conversely, killing jobs) who have very little experience in doing anything even faintly resembling that. Sadly, we have millions of Joe Sixpacks out there who actually DO have some experience in the world of work and profit generation. But they are not involved at all in formulating government policy. All they can do is observe and comment about how it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to them.

From the get-go I have believed that the best approach to jolting the economy out of its stupor would have been to TEMPORARILY suspend payroll taxes and let people keep more of the money they've earned-- and let their subsequent spending and investing stimulate demand. But nobody asked me.

Dems should make the Bush tax cuts their stimulus.

Don't just let the cuts expire. Keep the cuts, but put requirements around them. The Republicans have this blind faith that if you just throw money at corporations and rich people, they will use the money to invest and build the economy. They did - they built the economy of China, but wrecked US manufacturing.

The Bush tax cuts should be changed so that a corporation needs to build a factory here, expand production lines here, design a new product here. In the US, not China. Add US jobs. Make energy efficient products, clean energy. Stimulate the economy in the right directions.

Initially, keep the Bush tax cuts dollar for dollar, but demand results. Pull back on some of the tax breaks / stimulus when the economy recovers and balance the budget.

Taking this course, the Reps can't claim that they favor lower taxes, while the Dems want to raise them. It will instead be about whether we will demand results for the tax breaks given or just throw more money at the rich and big corporations and trust they will make decisions that benefit the US economy.

I don't know what planet this asshat is from but I say we deport him back there...

Of course someone with an orange spray on tan whould be against a tax on tanning booths! Obviously, Bonehead is trying to appeal to Melanoma-Americans, while attepmting to appear as one of them....

Why do you fail to understand that low taxes for the rich solves every problem? It is the political version of panacea.

By not taxing the rich and ignoring the needs and desires of the suffering middle class and poor the Republicans will make this nation into the banana republic they envision it to be.

The notion that the non-rich should have a say in the way this culture operates is deeply offensive to the Republican Party. If you are not rich enough to buy a legislator please butt out of the political process.

The definition of insanity? Let's do the same thing that got such a disastrous result last time and for no particular reason, expect a different outcome. Or, maybe a disastrous outcome IS the goal of the Rethugs.