Ask a Democrat Any Question, and You’ll Get the Same Answer
Tags: Obama Depression, Tax and Spend Liberalism.
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Job proposals from Democrats could add $300 billion in new federal spending
The cost of a new jobs bill Democrats hope to move early next year runs to nearly $300 billion when major proposals under serious consideration are added up.
Lawmakers are calling for extending aid to the unemployed, infrastructure spending, a hiring tax credit and increased small business loans.
What infrastructure spending? Wasn’t the $787 billion supposed to unleash a horde of “shovel ready” projects? What is left to fix? Or, are we now being told that the first bundle of money wasn’t quite used as advertised? Or is the only thing Democrats can think of is spending?
Do any of you liberals out there really want to defend this? Lets hear it – seriously: defend additional spending on top of the additional spending you’ve already done which was supposed to fix everything right up.
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Do any of you liberals out there really want to defend this? Lets hear it – seriously: defend additional spending on top of the additional spending you’ve already done which was supposed to fix everything right up.
Now wait just a minute! Since the stimulus bill was passed, between 600k and one million jobs have been created or saved!
///sarcasm off///
I’m betting that the same liberal troll pukes will defend their messiah with the same talking points they’ve used since their messiah took office. Hell, they’ll use the same talking points they’ve used since they’ve been allowed to come and pollute this blog. They don’t have it in them to admit they’re wrong; it’s all ego and blind party loyalty to them.
A million jobs “created or saved?” What about the six million lost?
Oh yeah, those lost jobs were all Bush’s fault; the messiah doesn’t deal in the negative…
I am sure that at some point the trolls will get their talking points and come here to give them to us. The truth is, no government has ever successfully and continuously caused their economy to expand. Just look at the former eastern block nations, most are doing better now that they have removed most government controls.
In advance of what the trolls will say, no, FDR did not get us out of the Great Depression with the New Deal. The Great Depression ended mainly because of WWII and the Eisenhower administration afterwards.
Another slush fund for political pay outs. The first stimulus bill was just that – a slush fund for political supporters. It has been shown that states, districts and organizations who supported Obamateur received the majority of the funds that were released.
It was predicted that the first “stimulus” bill would not work and has shown to be a great waste of money and a huge burden to our children when it’s time to pay the piper.
The modern liberal looters never learn from history. They are pathetically destined to repeat it. But hey, it’s an election year.
The “stimulus” bill actually accomplished what it was designed to do, just not what we were TOLD it was designed to do. It wrote a massive blank check to the Executive Branch and most of it is still sitting there, waiting to be doled out at election time to buy votes and retain Leftist power, and to fill the pockets of elites.
No one in the Obama administration has ever run a business or created a job, or had his or her paycheck dependent on performance. OK, I take back the “no one”—-there must be a couple. But his appointees are almost exclusively from the activist/non–profit arena.
If you don’t understand how totally ignorant Obama is about business, look at that speech he made yesterday, where he sneered at small business for becoming more productive in these hard times. (In an attempt to head off the predictable shrill yelping about him being taken “out of context” I will admit that I did not copy the entire speech. But he said what he said.)
Many have figured out how to squeeze more productivity out of fewer workers. And that cost-cutting has become embedded in their operations and in their culture. That may result in good profits, but it’s not translating into hiring and so that’s the question that we have to ask ourselves today: How do we get businesses to start hiring again?
He simply does not understand that business does not exist to support governhment. The primary job of every business is to ensure its survival, and to most people, increasing productivity and making a profit with fewer people is a GOOD thing.
As for his last question, we keep giving him the answer, but it’s a capitalist oriented free-market answer, and he just doesn’t want to hear it.
Cut capital gains taxes, cut corporate taxes, make the Bush tax rate cuts permanent, create a business environment that rewards initiative and success and lets failures drop by the wayside, let people feel they have control over their lives, let people feel upbeat and optimistic and hopeful that they will have the opportunity to succeed.
In less than a year, Oblahblah has plunged us into a dark and moody place, pessimistic and sour, with no light at the end of the tunnel other than a hope he can be dislodged before doing irreparable harm.
He just doesn’t get it—you don’t GET businesses to hire, you LET them create a business atmosphere where it benefits them to hire. He is showing his radical far Left colors again, showing his inner belief that the role of government is to control and coerce.
good video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjmFQ2BLl24&feature=player_embedded#
“In advance of what the trolls will say, no, FDR did not get us out of the Great Depression with the New Deal. The Great Depression ended mainly because of WWII and the Eisenhower administration afterward”
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At the risk of repeating myself (endlessly) Government spending was @ 20% of GDP during the Depression and didn’t rise to 40%+ until 1942. The Depression ended in 1939 four years before the US started spending on WWII.
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The end of protectionist taxation, and several Supreme Court decisions invalidating New Deal insanity (NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph) and finally turning away the dimocrats (Democrats lose 71 Congressional seats during November 1938 elections) that turned around the Depression.
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Leftists teach us in school that government spending from 1929 through 1939 kept the Depression from being worse (laughable) and that “The United States will begin emerging from the Depression as it borrows and spends $1 billion to build its armed forces. From 1939 to 1941, when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, U.S. manufacturing will have shot up a phenomenal 50 percent!” This does not square with the actual spending records at that time; in 1939 through 1941 the only increase in manufacturing came in the textiles industries.
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It was capitalism reinvigorated by a world of consumers allowed to purchase American goods that ended the Great Depression. It was not the myth of more government spending. (/soapbox)
Originally, yes, but a lot of that got removed to make room for your tax cuts. A very large portion of the rest was used to prevent state and local governments from laying people off. Of the entire stimulus, only 4% was devoted to infrastructure, yet that 4% accounted for some 25% or the jobs created, which tells you something about infrastructure.
Given the fact that the unemployment rate has now started to fall, though, I very much doubt a second stimulus will be necessary.