The Republicans are snickering over the snookering. Or, perhaps they and Obama are snickering together?
The Bush tax cuts did not help create more jobs, but we now get more of them. Deregulation did not produce more jobs, yet the same policies that allowed the current financial mess are still in place. Outsourcing did not produce more jobs, here. Yet, hundreds of billions of dollars of tax cuts to the wealthy will not be spent. It will be invested in the growing economies of Asia. Cutting payroll contributions undermines the solvency of Social Security. Not including the Build America bond program undercuts the ability of states to borrow money to make it through these hard times. This makes it easier to attack state employee unions and their "over-generous" pensions.
It seems our president has not come across a Republican proposal he doesn't like. Maybe he does like them.
The Bush tax cuts did not help create more jobs, but we now get more of them. Deregulation did not produce more jobs, yet the same policies that allowed the current financial mess are still in place. Outsourcing did not produce more jobs, here. Yet, hundreds of billions of dollars of tax cuts to the wealthy will not be spent. It will be invested in the growing economies of Asia. Cutting payroll contributions undermines the solvency of Social Security. Not including the Build America bond program undercuts the ability of states to borrow money to make it through these hard times. This makes it easier to attack state employee unions and their "over-generous" pensions.
It seems our president has not come across a Republican proposal he doesn't like. Maybe he does like them.
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