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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 12/20/2010 - 4:00pm.
By GREGORY MYSKO
"Where do Jobs come from Mommy?" Republicans and most Democrats in Congress have no clue. The same goes for blowhard pundits on CNN, Fox News, and CNBC and other "news" stations. None of them can articulate a solid answer. "Jobs" is just a metaphor for taxes and deregulation.
Did you ever get the idea that whenever politicians and pundits talk about creating jobs, they have no idea what jobs really are? There are millions of Americans officially unemployed and many more not counted in the official statistics. The most important priority for these people is the opportunity to go back to work; to have a job. To them, this is reality.
Jobs ain't here no more. At least well-paid middle class jobs are evaporating. The trend of manufacturing jobs leaving the US started during the illustrious Reign of Reagan and it has been accelerating ever since.
This was followed in more recent years with information technology, engineering and back office positions outsourcing. The former workers ended up standing in state unemployment lines. They wait for the Republicans to deliver tax cuts so they can have jobs again.
To understand the Republican perception of "jobs", we need to go deep inside the subconscious of the mythical Republican mindset to synchronize our thoughts with congressional Republicans and Fox News to visualize their reality on jobs and tax cuts. Here is an excerpt from GOP fantasyland:
America is a very prosperous nation today because of the Bush tax cuts enacted wisely by a Republican-controlled Congress and George W. Bush back in 2002. Otherwise, if we kept the sky-high tax rates that were in effect under Bill Clinton, which would have occurred if Al Gore was allowed to steal the election in 2000, then the United States would be an economic ruin today. Did we mention deregulation?
The Bush tax cuts kept increasing numbers of Americans working. New factories opened every month employing more and more Americans with generous salaries. Young workers just starting out in life got a hitch on their ride to the American Dream. Everyone spent their money in local stores buying American made products that kept other Americans working. Those people bought new cars, appliances and furniture made in USA. This is in addition to buying American made shoes and clothing. The money spent kept propelling the prosperity higher every year. And it was all due to the Bush tax cuts, thank you. And deregulation.
The official 9.8 percent unemployed are made up of lazy people who just don't want to work and want the government to give them $278 a week forever. Republicans rightly stood fast in Congress opposing extensions of unemployment funding. Why waste this money on losers when it could be invested in wealth creating tax cuts? The cycle of American prosperity needs to be kept going and not threatened by irresponsible Democrats who think only of the middle class and not deregulation.
It is true that Bush tax cut savings were invested in manufacturing facilities in China and India which gave those countries much needed jobs. Workers there earn as much in a day as minimum wage American workers demand for an hour. So what is fair? More deregulation.
Back to earth-centered reality, please. American corporations, both large and small, were outsourcing work at a high-speed rate since 2002 when the beautiful Bush tax cuts were enacted and financial regulations vanished. That trend has not stopped today. More American facilities are shutting down every month and moving to China and elsewhere. Other than a little blurb in the back pages of the business section, it rarely gets reported, if at all.
By GREGORY MYSKO
"Where do Jobs come from Mommy?" Republicans and most Democrats in Congress have no clue. The same goes for blowhard pundits on CNN, Fox News, and CNBC and other "news" stations. None of them can articulate a solid answer. "Jobs" is just a metaphor for taxes and deregulation.
Did you ever get the idea that whenever politicians and pundits talk about creating jobs, they have no idea what jobs really are? There are millions of Americans officially unemployed and many more not counted in the official statistics. The most important priority for these people is the opportunity to go back to work; to have a job. To them, this is reality.
Jobs ain't here no more. At least well-paid middle class jobs are evaporating. The trend of manufacturing jobs leaving the US started during the illustrious Reign of Reagan and it has been accelerating ever since.
This was followed in more recent years with information technology, engineering and back office positions outsourcing. The former workers ended up standing in state unemployment lines. They wait for the Republicans to deliver tax cuts so they can have jobs again.
To understand the Republican perception of "jobs", we need to go deep inside the subconscious of the mythical Republican mindset to synchronize our thoughts with congressional Republicans and Fox News to visualize their reality on jobs and tax cuts. Here is an excerpt from GOP fantasyland:
America is a very prosperous nation today because of the Bush tax cuts enacted wisely by a Republican-controlled Congress and George W. Bush back in 2002. Otherwise, if we kept the sky-high tax rates that were in effect under Bill Clinton, which would have occurred if Al Gore was allowed to steal the election in 2000, then the United States would be an economic ruin today. Did we mention deregulation?
The Bush tax cuts kept increasing numbers of Americans working. New factories opened every month employing more and more Americans with generous salaries. Young workers just starting out in life got a hitch on their ride to the American Dream. Everyone spent their money in local stores buying American made products that kept other Americans working. Those people bought new cars, appliances and furniture made in USA. This is in addition to buying American made shoes and clothing. The money spent kept propelling the prosperity higher every year. And it was all due to the Bush tax cuts, thank you. And deregulation.
The official 9.8 percent unemployed are made up of lazy people who just don't want to work and want the government to give them $278 a week forever. Republicans rightly stood fast in Congress opposing extensions of unemployment funding. Why waste this money on losers when it could be invested in wealth creating tax cuts? The cycle of American prosperity needs to be kept going and not threatened by irresponsible Democrats who think only of the middle class and not deregulation.
It is true that Bush tax cut savings were invested in manufacturing facilities in China and India which gave those countries much needed jobs. Workers there earn as much in a day as minimum wage American workers demand for an hour. So what is fair? More deregulation.
Back to earth-centered reality, please. American corporations, both large and small, were outsourcing work at a high-speed rate since 2002 when the beautiful Bush tax cuts were enacted and financial regulations vanished. That trend has not stopped today. More American facilities are shutting down every month and moving to China and elsewhere. Other than a little blurb in the back pages of the business section, it rarely gets reported, if at all.
