Budget talks: This is getting nasty

"Ask not what you can do for your country, blame somebody else."

 

I ask again,

what do the teabaggers and the rest of the Republicans suggest we do to cut unemployment by, I oh dunno, let's say half.

Anything?

Or do they only complain complain complain about the other guys?

 

Boehner could introduce a jobs bill, right?

 

Both sides only complain about the other guys. And that's a big part of the problem.

Actually coming up with real solutions requires politicians to risk the cushy, powerful, perk-laden jobs they have spent a lifetime and broken countless others' careers to earn. Because the real solutions that are necessary will require pissing off this powerful interest group or that wealthy sugar daddy whose money your campaign needs (Koch Brothers for Republicans, George Soros for Democrats, etc.).

 

I asked a similar question earlier -- more broadly about the economy in general -- and got two responses: One, from a democrat (repeated by others) was stimulus emphasizing infrastructure investment. The other, from conservatives was, basically, nothing. As a government, just get out of the way and let the free market sort it out.

I'm sure if the GOP were in power, they'd propose stimulus and the GOP cheerleaders on here would be for it and coming up with reasons why it's different from when Obama did the same.

 

Do you have an idea other than to complain about how government functions (or fails to)?

What policy would you advocate?

 

Interesting take on Obama. He is what he always was:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/get-over-it-this-is-who-obama-is/242600/

And no, by that I don't mean a Kenyan communist black power agitator or whatever else the tea party tries to portray him as.

 

Dow futures off 283.

Weeeeeeeee.

 

Yes, when Obama doesn't get his way, it's because he's "pragmatic" and "sought compromise".

Please.

I hope the Yankees aren't as "pragmatic" tonight against the Red Sox as they were yesterday afternoon.

 

The Republicans passed a budget. They presented a debt plan. They passed a balanced budget Amendment.

And, Inky, your response flies in the face of all your claims to not be a by the book, liberal, Democrat (gun rights, the loan exception).

What would a "jobs bill" entail exactly?

I swear, it's like a Hollywood script where the movie ends with the earnest politician getting his "jobs bill" passed and everyone lives happily ever after.

Any job "created" by a "jobs bill" will dry up as soon as the funding or the incentives to create it dry up.

Far better for Government to help create a job friendly environment.

Let me buy my fucking strawberry ice cream.

 

A job-friendly environment would include low taxes and low interest rates. Interest rates are already at the zero-bound. Are you seriously proposing further tax cuts, especially after the failures of the Bush cuts, both in its origination and in its extension?

If not, what do you propose?

 

How does one create a "jobs-friendly" environment?