Remember last year, when the Republican Party ran on job creation? Apparently they’ve already abandoned that pledge. Their proposed budget would cut 700,000 jobs. That’s 700,000 more people on unemployment, and searching for jobs that are already scarce.
A Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to an independent economic analysis set for release Monday.
The report, by Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, offers fresh ammunition to Democrats seeking block the Republican plan, which would terminate dozens of programs and slash federal appropriations by $61 billion over the next seven months.
I would take a chance and pet a snake, but not one of them. They are evils step child.
We should be asking it every day, we should be writing in to every media outlet with letters and emails asking it, we should be shouting it from the rooftops:
“MR. SPEAKER, WHERE ARE THE JOBS?”
We have to cut government jobs to bring our federal budget back into balance. Our government can not justify the cost of all those redundant agencies that are nothing but a jobs program in exchange for votes. Just as America suffers from an obesity epidemic, so does our government suffer from bloated over-employment. The federal budget needs to be balanced. Just raising taxes wil not accomplish that.
So long as there are social safety nets in this society, there is a responsibility to keep those people from starving to death or freezing to death on the streets, after they lay them off from those “redundant jobs.” Now, do you want them doing at least SOMETHING in return for the tax dollars that make up their paychecks, or do you just want to give them the minimum they need to survive, still out of tax dollars? Streamlining the government, making it more efficient? No problem. Just cutting it for the sake of cutting it, and in the process adding 700,000 to the unemployment roles, and eventually the welfare and food stamp rolls? Doesn’t make any sense to me. Additionally, those government workers PAY taxes and buy things out of their government paychecks. They CONTRIBUTE to the economy with the multiplier effect of paying gasoline taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and their demand for goods and services creates (or at least retains) other people’s jobs.
Try seeing that those government workers don’t exist in a vacuum.
Where are the jobs?