The Teabagger Dilemma?

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Republican 'jobs bills' aren't really jobs bills, according to economists

It might surprise you to remember, what with all their repeal votes and abortion votes and proposals to rename the ocean after Ronald Reagan, not to mention their obstruction of actual jobs bills, but Republicans insist they have a jobs plan that's being blocked by Senate Democrats. The small problem with the Republican jobs plan, though, is that economists say it wouldn't actually create jobs.

The Huffington Post's Erin Mershon writes that Gary Burtless, of the Brookings Institution, says that "A lot of these things are laughable in terms of a jobs plan that would produce noticeable improvements across the country in the availability of employment in the next four or five years." According to Carl Riccadonna of Deutsche Bank:


"They are very narrowly targeted, and it gives the impression that maybe some of this is special interest really pursuing these, not really taking a macro view but a very, very micro focus in what the impact would be," Riccadonna said. For most of the bills in the package, "jobs are a second- or third-order effect, not the main priority."
With most of the Republican "jobs bills" focused on gutting environmental and other regulations,

Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, warned that any potential job creation from environmental deregulation could be offset by health concerns.

"If you increase employment but you have a lot more sick people, you have to ask yourself,'What's the trade-off?'" he said. "The highest level of GDP is not necessarily the highest level of national satisfaction or national health."

Ah, but is it the highest level of corporate profit and CEO pay? Those are the measures the Republicans care about, after all.

Republicans do realize that people want Congress to work on jobs, so they'll be reminding voters of this amazing jobs plan they've passed through the House, trying to pretend it's been as big a focus as repealing the Affordable Care Act or getting all up in our lady parts. Now if only their "jobs plan" would include at least a reasonable pretense of being intended to create jobs.

Posted in the Minneapolis Forum
 
Of course they're not jobs bills. They're a mechanism to put more money in the pockets of the elite. Like Romney.
 
signalmankenneth said:
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Republican 'jobs bills' aren't really jobs bills, according to economists

It might surprise you to remember, what with all their repeal votes and abortion votes and proposals to rename the ocean after Ronald Reagan, not to mention their obstruction of actual jobs bills, but Republicans insist they have a jobs plan that's being blocked by Senate Democrats. The small problem with the Republican jobs plan, though, is that economists say it wouldn't actually create jobs.

The Huffington Post's Erin Mershon writes that Gary Burtless, of the Brookings Institution, says that "A lot of these things are laughable in terms of a jobs plan that would produce noticeable improvements across the country in the availability of employment in the next four or five years." According to Carl Riccadonna of Deutsche Bank:


"They are very narrowly targeted, and it gives the impression that maybe some of this is special interest really pursuing these, not really taking a macro view but a very, very micro focus in what the impact would be," Riccadonna said. For most of the bills in the package, "jobs are a second- or third-order effect, not the main priority."
With most of the Republican "jobs bills" focused on gutting environmental and other regulations,

Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, warned that any potential job creation from environmental deregulation could be offset by health concerns.

"If you increase employment but you have a lot more sick people, you have to ask yourself,'What's the trade-off?'" he said. "The highest level of GDP is not necessarily the highest level of national satisfaction or national health."

Ah, but is it the highest level of corporate profit and CEO pay? Those are the measures the Republicans care about, after all.

Republicans do realize that people want Congress to work on jobs, so they'll be reminding voters of this amazing jobs plan they've passed through the House, trying to pretend it's been as big a focus as repealing the Affordable Care Act or getting all up in our lady parts. Now if only their "jobs plan" would include at least a reasonable pretense of being intended to create jobs.

Posted in the Minneapolis Forum
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the gop thinks that the voters will not notice their tactics

oh well
 
Gatorman said:
The teabaggers created that name and meme for themselves. And for a while seemed to be quite proud of it!!!!!!!!!! I was proud for them!!!!!!!!!
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why do you lie so often? they called themselves the tea party....disgusting liberals like you called them teabaggers.
 
Yurt said:
why do you lie so often? they called themselves the tea party....disgusting liberals like you called them teabaggers.
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You just can't get anything right, can you?

http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the-word-tea-bagger

The grassroots movement didn't always consider "tea bagger" a slur: Early Tea Partiers innocently embraced the term until they discovered its vulgar connotations (see also the 1998 John Waters movie Pecker).
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This is priceless!

Feb. 27, 2009
At the first anti-stimulus "New American Tea Party" rally in Washington D.C., a protestor carries a sign reading "Tea Bag the Liberal Dems before they Tea Bag You!!" The Washington Independent's David Weigel calls it "the best sign I saw."
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lol...

Of course, with representatives like you and others on here, it's been well known that teabaggers aren't the smartest around, huh?
 
Howey said:
You just can't get anything right, can you?

http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the-word-tea-bagger



This is priceless!




lol...

Of course, with representatives like you and others on here, it's been well known that teabaggers aren't the smartest around, huh?
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your link proves absolutely nothing. it doesn't prove they started using the verbiage.

you are truly mentally deficient. so what if allegedly some embraced it, without realizing perverts like yourself, meant the term in a derogatory manner?

you're an embarrassment.
 
what i find truly odd about liberals use of the word teabagger - is that it necessarily means the person using the term is getting tea bagged.

:palm:
 
People have noticed and that's why the repug congress' approval rating is in the teens. We have to realize that the baggers want purity and they are the fundamentalist faith based segment of the population...how else do you explain why they believe the crap that's fed them from the 1%?
 
Yurt said:
your link proves absolutely nothing. it doesn't prove they started using the verbiage.

you are truly mentally deficient. so what if allegedly some embraced it, without realizing perverts like yourself, meant the term in a derogatory manner?

you're an embarrassment.
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No, some embraced the word tea bag to refer to sending a tea bag to your representatives in Congress. MSNBC coined the term "teabagger" to refer to hanging your balls in someones face and as a name for members of the tea party.

Let them mock the tea party as they put representatives into Congress, while the corresponding OWS plan to protest the democratic convention.
 
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