The converservative final exam

[flyboy]

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Here are the questions.
1. Name three bills the Republican congress has drafted to create jobs in 2011.
2. Explain how cutting the U. S. budget creates jobs.
3. Explain how paying school children to be janitors will make the U.S. competitive in the world market place.
4. Since Obama renewed the Bush tax cut for the wealthy, how many positions have these "job creators" provided, as an exact number?  Cite your source.
5. Since regaining control of congress, what bills have the republicans drafted to enable 48 million Americans to have access to affordable health care services?
6. Which 3 government regulations would you eliminate and how many new jobs would result from these eliminations, as an exact number?
7. Explain how you would attack a trillion-dollar economic crisis without spending any federal or state money?
8. Explain how less regulation of the lending industry would help avert a financial meltdown as was endured in 2008.

[DougRich]

You've obviously forgotten that creating jobs is only the job of the Congress when Democrats are in charge; ditto the White House.

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3. Explain how paying school children to be janitors will make the U.S. competitive in the world market place.

Oh, you ignirint tird!

Leave it to a Libtard to not understand the idea of developing the Work Ethic.

*spits*

[Observer]

You've obviously forgotten that creating jobs is only the job of the Congress when Democrats are in charge; ditto the White House.

The only jobs the government can create are government jobs. There are already too many of those.

[flyboy]

Oh, you ignirint tird!

Leave it to a Libtard to not understand the idea of developing the Work Ethic.

*spits*

And you were a janitor in your school at age 11?  That's how you got your Work Ethic, right?
Moron.

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You've obviously forgotten that creating jobs is only the job of the Congress when Democrats are in charge; ditto the White House.

Douglas, if you pay attention to every Rep candidate, they are specifically saying that the only thing they are going to do to "create jobs" is to get the government's nose out of private business's asses.

Governments do not "create jobs."  No matter how many times you hear people say it, it's just not true.

[johnhp]

Douglas, if you pay attention to every Rep candidate, they are specifically saying that the only thing they are going to do to "create jobs" is to get the government's nose out of private business's asses.

Governments do not "create jobs."  No matter how many times you hear people say it, it's just not true.

You are prevaricating

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And you were a janitor in your school at age 11?  That's how you got your Work Ethic, right?
Moron.

As a matter of fact, when I was 7, I started to hoe cotton.  I would have killed to have a cush job of a janitor.  When I was 11, I was disking fields with a Massey Ferguson.

Blow me, Liberal Scum!!

[johnhp]

As a matter of fact, when I was 7, I started to ho

Shocking

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Also, I got paid in food and a bed to sleep in.  No work, no food.

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You are prevaricating

Oh, wait.  Are you attempting to troll me, JohnHP?

[johnhp]

Oh, wait.  Are you attempting to troll me, JohnHP?

No, i am calling you a prevaricator

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Dear Stupid Twat:

Economic Policy: In a joint op-ed with the British prime minister, President Obama admits that jobs are created by an innovative private sector. So why is he strangling ours with regulations, rules and taxes?

We would hope it was a candid admission of the truth rather than just boilerplate rhetoric in an op-ed in the Times of London by President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. But there it was: "Governments do not create jobs; bold people and innovative businesses do."

For once, the president is spot on. Businesses create jobs to fill a need, and their incentive is profit. Businesses invest; governments can only spend. Businesses create wealth, as do their employees.

Government consumes wealth and sucks the economic oxygen out of the room. Its employees create paperwork and regulations that restrict economic growth.

There's no better example of this than the Obama administration's failed stimulus.

According to a report by Ohio State University economists Tim Conley and Bill Dupor titled "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Public Sector Jobs Saved, Private Sector Jobs Forestalled," the 2009 stimulus created or saved 450,000 state and local government jobs while destroying or forestalling a million private sector jobs. That's a net loss of half a million jobs.

Jobs aren't created by high taxes, bailouts and subsidies. Nor are they created by the government picking winners and losers or buying car companies and the like.

No. Jobs are created by cutting taxes and regulations and letting the entrepreneurial dogs run.

This is the slowest recovery since the 1930s, if it can be called that (see chart above), as businesses beset by the highest corporate tax burden in the world, the looming job-killing presence of ObamaCare and cap-and-trade by regulation sit on the sidelines, fearing the future.

Obama and Cameron say in the op-ed that they "know that our nations are self-reliant and infused with the entrepreneurial spirit" and have "proud traditions of out-investing and out-building the rest of the world." But it's no longer true — at least on this side of the pond.

As Julie Borowski of FreedomWorks points out, a record number of Americans — 1-in-6 — are dependent on government anti-poverty programs. Nearly half of Americans, 47%, pay no income tax at all. More people than ever are riding the wagon rather than pulling it.

The innovative entrepreneurial spirit of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and the Wright brothers gave us the incandescent light bulb, the automotive assembly line and the airplane. Government is banning Edison's invention and forcing us to buy mercury-filled imposters in the name of saving energy.

http://news.investors.com/Article/573386/201105251834/Government-Doesnt-Create-Jobs.htm

[johnhp]

Dear Stupid Twat:

An editorial?  Are you really that fucking moronic?  i guess you are.


You are a prevaricator.

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The Liberal Response:

Governments Don't Create Jobs; Only the Private Sector Creates Jobs.' Really?

I hear variations of the quote above almost every day, which usually go unchallenged. How can that be since it is so obviously wrong? It reminds me of the old Richard Pryor line: “Who are you going to believe: me or your own lying eyes?

Local governments hire policemen, fire fighters, and school teachers. State governments hire the employees that drive us crazy down at the Division of Motor Vehicles. The Federal government hires employees to work for the Social Security Administration and TSA employees who drive us crazy at the airport, but not as much so lately. All these jobs are created by government, and everybody knows it.

The eminent scholar, Thomas Sowell, appeared on CNBC’s Kudlow Report recently. He also agreed with the title statement, but, as usual, he spoke more clearly than most. He clarified that the title quote referred to net jobs rather than gross jobs. In other words—in my recollection of his words—he was saying that had government workers not been hired by government they would likely have a job in the private sector.

Sowell’s clarification didn’t take much time, even in the context of TV interviews where you must have your say quickly or not at all. Non-economist viewers—i.e. normal people—hearing him could get his point, understand it to be reasonable, and go away without wondering what planet that economist is from.

Many of the more strident proponents of the governments-can’t-create jobs view, however, use it to argue against monetary and fiscal stimulus as unnecessary even during a deep recession since the private sector is likely to absorb the unemployed anyway. The Classical or pre-Keynesian economists generally agreed with that view, and the mechanism they expected to facilitate the employment of the unemployed was declining wages during a recession. At some wage rate, all willing and able workers could be absorbed into private employment. Thus, by definition, those that remained unemployed must be unemployed voluntary since they have the option of working for less pay.

While it may be possible to deflate our way out of a recession, the painful experience of the Great Depression and the publication in 1936, of Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, shifted the emphasis away from letting nature run its course toward more government responsibility for maintaining full employment. This shift was codified by the Employment Act of 1946 and, later, the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.

The unequivocal denials that governments can create jobs no doubt stems in part from distaste for “Keynesian” economics, which is associated, rightly or wrongly, with large and activist governments. To me, the “fear of Keynes” is overdone. It makes sense to me to rely on Classical prescriptions most of the time, but to treat Keynes as a guidebook for policy during occasional deep recessions.

My main point, however, has to do with economic rhetoric. Public pronouncements that governments can’t create jobs are so obviously incorrect, as usually stated, that they undermine confidence in economics and economists. Economists know the difference between gross and net; so, they should say so out loud. They could all do worse than to use Thomas Sowell as their inspiration in that regard. He’s a master.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2010/11/17/governments-dont-create-jobs-only-the-private-sector-creates-jobs-really/

Now, if we can ALL get jobs working for the SSA, TSA or the DMV, everything would be absolutely tits.

I intentionally omitted teachers, policemen and firemen because those are NOT federal jobs...and for that matter, neither is the DMV.