Posted on 02/24/2010 10:52:17 AM PST by meandog
Reporting from Washington - The Senate on Wednesday passed a jobs bill that one senator described as "modest," but one that Democrats hope will be the first in a series of attempts to jump-start hiring nationwide. More notable, perhaps, than the bill itself was the fact that 13 Republicans crossed party lines to vote for it. The $15-billion bill passed by a 70-28 tally. The bill would grant employers a "holiday" on their 6.2% Social Security payroll contribution for every new employee hired through the rest of the year, as long as that employee has been out of work for at least 60 days. It would also make it easier for businesses to write off equipment purchases and would extend federal highway and mass-transit funding programs. "For the first time in a long time we have a bill that is supported by both Democrats and Republicans," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said shortly before the vote, but he cautioned, "This is not a magic wand that is going to be waved and all our joblessness will decline." White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the vote proved that bipartisanship in the Senate is "possible." It also marked a victory for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who has seen his chamber paralyzed by partisan warfare. Reid pushed for the vote counting on some GOP support and was rewarded earlier this week when several Republicans, including the newest senator, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, signed on...
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“If the Republican Party can help it, there won’t be a Republican”take over” of Congress.”
I know that some people actually want that so that Obama won’t be able to do a Clinton in 96 and blame the GOP for everything.
first we have to deal about the red state RINO’s before worrying about the R from friggin Massachusetts
Hutchinson hasn’t been tight for decades.
You have apparently never went to ANY gubmint website.(1)
We have 32,000+ in our little Village. It takes me 15 MINUTES to find the link to pay my friggen water bill on its website. And I have the first link to it bookmarked.
(1) No OFFENSE intended.
All gubmint websites suck. I think they're complicated to navigate on purpose.
As for your “yea” vote, Senator Landrieu, the sooner you leave the Senate, the better.
We are trying to make sure she leaves Washington.
No but eliminating it would put more money into the market place making hiring easier.
I want accountablity and transparency on the next “jobs” bill. Any corporation taking this deduction/credit/payback will have to put online in the SAME PLACE as everyone else, just which jobs are opening.
This way the White House cannot spin BULLSTALIN that it “created or saved 453451234534 jobs”.
I.D. JUST which jobs, in which sectors, and give name/rank/serial number!
What exactly are are your objections to this jobs bills? Not in interminably vague euphemistic rhetoric like "It's socialism!", but rather:
1. What does it do that you feel is harmful and why?
2. What does it fail to do that you feel a jobs bill should and why would those missing things create real jobs soon?
Time to call ol’ Sen. Inhofe and tell him I think he is another Ben Nelson. This is why government spending will never go down. Politicians exist to bring home the bacon.
She wasn’t there. She’s in Texas running for Governor. Primary is next week.
Tsk tsk Burr.
Yeah I know. Sometimes I think he’s trying to make his race unnecessarily competitive.
He’s lucky this looks like a good GOP year.
“No but eliminating it would put more money into the market place making hiring easier.”
I hear what your saying, but the biggest problem I have is where to invest... This is true for many of my friends as well. If I could invest it in a small business that would make a profit and pay me a return I would. I would love to have a gain I could pay tax on. I just don’t think availability of money is the problem.
2. Secondly, 90 percent of the jobs in the country IMHO should be a creation of private enterprise with absolutely no help or assistance from government (the almighty fed can have the other 10 percent). I do not believe that corporations should be taxed, only individuals.
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