How will this create jobs?
Every political party ever elected has promised that, why will it work this time?
Two years ago both political parties agreed Healthcare was broken, how will repealing the absurdly small changes effected so far fix it?
I would love a cite that shows abundant regulations were the cause of this latest economic disaster.
pfft!
Well, the auto industry is a good example.
They mandated seat belts in all cars and the auto industry predicted that people would stop buying cars.
Then they implemented the cafe standards and they predicted that people would stop buying cars.
This scenario has played over and over again with safety requirements and fuel efficiency my entire life. The industry position has been bullshit every single time.
The problem in the last 30 years has been a reduction in regulations. You want to know the biggest boon to the trial bar in recent decades? Deregulation with self policing. Turns out that industry is really bad at self policing.
I believe I have heard conservatives say that we should get rid of welfare programs and leave it up to private charity.
I also have trouble understanding why a tax cut will make someone more likely to create a job when there is nothing for that new employee to do.
If these low taxes are supposed to create so many jobs why is it that the only jobs created during the Baby Bush years were associated with the real estate boom?
Cut taxes, boost aggregate demand, boost incomes: woohoo!
Increase deficit, lower government spending, lower aggregate demand, lower incomes: damnit!
Hell we need jobs. If cutting taxes to the wealthy will create them, why don’t we just eliminate taxes to the rich. Then we would have lots and lots of jobs.
This does not represent the vast majority of religious charity. You should go to a soup kitchen sometime and see for yourself.
I used to volunteer at a food bank/soup kitchen and I don’t think I saw anything that would have bothered me if I was an athiest. There was no baptism requirement for the meal, there was no sermon you had to listen to before the meal. There was no prayer before the meal.
If there was a law saying "no proselytizing in soup kitchens, I bet you dollars to donuts that churches would still run soup kitchens.
The proselytizing is secondary, the first order of business is feeding the hungry.
Those Christians in Iraq weren’t Christians, at least not the kind Christ wants.
We tried that in 2001 and 2003 and the only jobs we got were construction worker, mortgage broker and real estate agent and I can make a good argument that tax cuts had little to nothing to do with the creation of those jobs.
From what I heard, the Republican’s Plan is to repeal, repudiate and otherwise advise the Democrats that their deal was utter crap and that that they will do anything they can to null and void it.
So we’re going back to to 2008.
And that sucks.
What neither Party, “political expert”, nor journalist has the guts to tell the American people is the OBVIOUS truth that the hardest economic fixes are simply diametrically opposed. You cannot completely stop government spending and create jobs; you cannot significantly cut taxes and pay down the national debt…and grow the econony. The only hope may be small businesses whose total hiring amounts to peanuts to help the unemployed/underemployed. The mass of jobs have been shipped overseas, and they ain’t coming back.
As for a balanced budget, it sounds nice but Washington DC hates to diet as much as the rest of America. We like living beyond our means (from Washington DC on down to the man on the street). We’ve wallowed in instant gratification, conspicuous consumption, and running with the Jones that America knows no other way! There is no quick and easy way back, and America likes quick and easy!
What Americans want from their politicians is to put the proverbial genie back in the bottle. It starts with every CEO entering into a pact not be greedy. But, they disguise their greed as “free enterprise”, a battleground where avg workers are just pawns to rape and jobs to pillage.
When business can diet and take only its fair share, then our children will have a chance to obtain the American dream vs. being starved out by the American corporate glutton! We need a “glutton free” America!
If Americans wanted to hear the Straight Dope from the candidates, there it is. But, who’s going to stand up and sell the unpalettable truth to America? That’s what I thought… 
The only thing left of American pie is the last slice - and it has a reserveration tomorrow for some destination in Asia.
I skimmed this thread, saw little but nattering and snarking from “both sides of the aisle;” so clicked this link and read. While you can argue Ryan does present specific “answers,” much of his page is spent declaiming the errors of deficits, bailouts, and liberal philosophy. Over and over, typical rhetoric arguing against “liberal ideas” rather than espousing or explaining particular positive ideas.
Here are three specifics that caught my eye.
It contains a quote by Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, complimenting Americans on saving Europe from World Wars, and their subsequent generosity.
He writes:
By this time, I admit I was skimming quickly. But not so quickly as to miss
3. one of his deficit-reduction ideas about seven tenths of the way through the page.
Here I stopped reading. I hope someone else can summarize the last 3 tenths of Ryan’s Plan.
How can you boost income if a person doesn’t have a job to begin with??
There have been job gains under Obama, just not enough yet. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will our economy, it takes time. Now, with Obama trying to get India etc. to buy US products more jobs will come.Giving the rich tax breaks didn’t help under Bush that is one reason Obama won over McCain!
Clinton was elected because it was “the economy Srupid” remember that saying? Under Bush Sr. The economy dropped.Not quite as low as it was under JR’s terms.
Sunday morning Tv proves the Repubs have not learned a thing. They are claiming we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. No increase in taxes. But cutting will balance the budget. The tax cuts to the wealthy create jobs. They still believe that or they have been told by the big money people “don’t screw with out tax breaks”.
It wont. Pence, Rand Paul and DeMint are avoiding the question and lying over and over.
If you think the Repubs have received a message, you are wrong. Same Repubs saying the same damn things.
They’ll balance the budget by massive tax cuts and across the board spending cuts, except for defense, social security and medicare…
No one has yet mentioned the Republican movement to Scrap the Minimum Wage.
Letting the market decide how much low paying jobs are worth will catapult our economy into the stratosphere!
Or so I hear.
I think that instead of juicing up small business’ pocketbook, trashing wage laws’ll result in resurgent labor unions, and widespread class warfare.
Eliminating ‘fiat currency’ first might be a GOP-palatable economic option that produces fewer undesirable side effects.
The unemployed won’t have to worry about tax cuts,but the minimum wage workers will not get any richer,but the rich will not lose, they already have much more than they need, and can control the government as they seem to be doing. Now the Supreme Court has allowed them to give as much as they can to support a politician who can make sure they can be in power and keep their money…to heck with the working man, just tell him you will make life better for him during the campgaign, then forget about it once elected!
Rand Paul the man of high principle has already backtracked on earmarks. He joins the weeper of the house, Boehner in doing that. When do people ever figure out they are being taken for a ride by politicians who will appeal to their small government mantra until they get in, then as always crank up the money machine? The Repubs believe in bigger government.
Rand Paul is a man who is far more pontentially destructive if he is true to his professed ideals than if he is an utter hypocrite.