The GOP's 'big plans' to create jobs

[Vypernight]

I've been in a 'discussion' with a coworker on FB (anyone on my FB friends list can see it) about the liberals and conservatives and thier efforts to create jobs.  Actually, I was just responding because I hate the terms Liberal and Conservative.  They are meaningless by themselves but got tossed around and used in a derogtory manner with nothing to back it up.

Anyway, my coworker slammed the libs for not doing anything to create jobs, citing that her cons have.  Well, I Googled, "GOP Jobs," and got this page, which supports the Right, talking about their so-called plans to create jobs.

http://www.gop.gov/policy-news/11/10/27/summary-of-jobs-bills-stalled

HR 872 Deregulate pest control
HR 910 Allow the air to be further polluted
HR 1229 confuses the $%^$ out of me!  It's called, "Putting the Gulf Back to Work," but all it's doing is requring permits to drill.  Now I'm not sure what to think of the permits, but how does requiring them create jobs?

HR 2018 Apparently having clean water destroys jobs.
HR 1315 Remove more annoying regulation to help consumers

And so on and so forth.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like their plans include nothing but, "take away health and safety laws create jobs."  At least the stimulus plans they hate actually worked.

[RavynousHunter]

Of course, we can't let little things like having a viable ecosystem that can sustain our need for fucking food, water, and air get in the way of those poor, oppressed corporations.  Can't you see that, through the magic of "rational self-interest," they'd automatically do everything good, that any and all regulation is pointless because they'd...you know what, fuck it.

They can take their Randian bullshit, shove it up their asses, crawl in a hole, and expire.  I like breathing, you ignorant fucks.  Or, as Hanako has so eloquently put it...

[Fpqxz]

They figure it is cheaper to eliminate regulations willy-nilly rather than either

1) investing in new infrastructure or technologies (which costs money), or

2) reform those parts of the government which clearly need it (e.g. the criminal justice/prison system, the gov't procurement system, the bloated and inefficient Dept. of Defense, agricultural policy & subsidies, etc.) because that would alienate many of their key campaign donors constituents.

Doing the right thing is usually expensive, and often either politically unpopular or politically inexpedient.  So we get the situation we have now.  We have reached an impasse where no reforms or progress of any kind can be made because too many people in key positions benefit from the status quo.

[Lt. Fred]

Presume that millions of jobs could be created like that. Are they worth destroying the world?

[Jedi Knight]

Presume that millions of jobs could be created like that. Are they worth destroying the world?

Maybe. I don't fear for the Earth. The planet will recover from anything we can do to it. Humanity and a lot of other species wouldn't survive, but that's a minor problem in the big perspective.

But if you agree with me that the Earth should be able to support a human population: No!

[Damen]

Sure, keep deregulating! Because who doesn't need water you can light on fire?

[StallChaser]

How much would it improve the economy if slashing regulations saved $5 million immediately, but created $100 million in hospital bills from people getting sick a few years down the road?

Republican answer: $105 million.  +5M to corporations, +100M to hospitals.

[nickiknack]

Don't forget, the Republicans in Congress have blocked mostly every job bill put forth by Democrats sine Obama has been in office, so Obama can be a one-termer. I hope they all rot in fucking hell.

[shykid]

Why are people still fucking stupid enough to believe that dismantling basic health and safety regulations or giving more tax cuts to the wealthy would automatically create jobs?

[erictheblue]

Why are people still fucking stupid enough to believe that dismantling basic health and safety regulations or giving more tax cuts to the wealthy would automatically create jobs?

Because if we don't, Obama will take away our guns, everyone will have to get gay-married, and health care companies will go bankrupt. (/sarcasm)

[Vypernight]

The latest response (which had nothing to do with liberals vs. conservatives) was that liberals want special rights.  I have yet to see these so-called special rights.