Posted on 07/12/2009 3:08:26 PM PDT by Maelstorm
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) continued his assault on President Obama's stimulus package on Sunday, calling the economic legislation a "flop."
Cantor, appearing on Fox News Sunday, said the $787 billion legislation is not working. In particular, he said small businesses aren't hiring.
The Virginia Republican has been a leading critic of Obama and the stimulus package in the last week. He delivered the Republican weekly radio and internet address on Saturday, saying that Obama's economic policies aren't working.
Obama has stepped up his defense of the stimulus and his economic policies. He dedicated his Saturday radio and internet address to the economy and he penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday on the topic as well.
On Sunday, Cantor, who whipped the entire House GOP caucus to vote against the stimulus, said the package didn't focus enough on preserving and creating jobs. He suggested that the GOP alternative provided more incentives for businesses to hire people, such as giving businesses a tax break.
Cantor also said that the economic crisis is providing an opportunity for "the Republican Party to demonstrate that it can and will lead again."
Is it me or are the Republicans finding their voice, i.e. their balls?
This is what happens when you promise to punish the productive. They will quit producing.
There are many disgruntled tax payers with their own individual methods to ‘starve the beast’. The looting must stop!
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are.
- Ayn Rand
long term tax cuts, respect for the rule of law in contracts, and confidence in the administration and intergrity of banking/investment system would lead businesses to hire
I don’t see we have any of those for the next 3.5 years
Tax Cheat Tim Geithner? ygbsm
Ya know what else is a flop? All of a Eric Cantor’s appearances. Seriously work behind the scenes— let’s stay off the Sunday Morning Talk Shows this guy. For example, Demint, Pence, even Ryan all come off much better than Cantor.
Didn’t Cantor vote for this originally?
She replied ... they do not need to pay anything for your money use when they can borrow from the FED. for nothing. It is all for profit for the bank when they make loans to borrowers.
To bad for people living on interest. == possibly meaning no income for them: unless things change rather quickly.. !!!
Never mind, I should read before I post.
It isn’t so much a matter of giving private business incentives as a matter of NOT scaring the hell out of private business with disincentives. As soon as a business grows to more than a handful of employees, it is faced with a bewiderning and ever increasing number of fees, forms, and filing requirements. Outstretched hands appear from everywhere, and the business is soon hiring people just for compliance. Believe me, I know.
Many of the new Obama initiatives or even non-legislated pronouncements would scare the hell out of me if I were still in business. Health care complexities, hiring “fairness” requirements, the push for card check... everywhere you look, there are disincentives. There are laws and “action groups” whose sole purpose seems to be to hammer down any economic nail that sticks up. Take for example the Ricci case. Even though he won, eventually, it also shows that no one knows what is required in the name of fairness, but it iw clear that it is going to always be potentially expensive whenever the question is raised.
Obama is not only spreading the wealth around; he’s continuing in the grand olde Clinton tradition of corrupting the judiciary so no one knows what the rules are.
“Cantor also said that the economic crisis is providing an opportunity for “the Republican Party to demonstrate that it can and will lead again.”
But they will need someone with a just little bit more charisma to do it...sorry, Eric, but unless you get one hell of an image makeover, you are NOT the one...focus on being the Newt style mover and stay behind the scenes...
This is the same technique used by the Michiganders to convince Government Motors to open their new "green" car factory there. Probably just a coincidence.
The more the “stimulus” doesn’t work, the more money the psychotic libs will throw at the problem in order to “prove” that it will work. The question is, who will sink first, Obama and the libs, or the country? I’m betting on the former.
Well, they only seem to notice that they are Republicans when they are not in power. Why did they spend like Dems when they were in control? I’m not buying their born-again conservatism. Most pols are crooks.
“These men (in government), in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers.”
~ H.L. Mencken
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