Please remind me - why do we criticize business-people who set up factories and offices in other countries???
We can be PIIGS too! We could rename it to UPIIGS. (U.S, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain). Such a deal.
it is the same stale warmed-over pap the Left is always pushing.
- Infrastructure bank, “invest” in infrastructure (make union jobs)
- “Green” jobs (electric cars, windmills, solar farms, smart grid, etc.)
- “Invest” in “fully funding” “public education”
- Single payer national health care
- “Make Work Pay” (everyone into unions with mandated benefits and Living Wage)
- “Secure” Social Security (by extending FICA taxes on the wealthy to every penny they earn, “just like the rest of us”)
- Raise income taxes on the wealthy (that dropped to #7 ???)
- End Bush’s ILLEGAL FOREIGN WARS and invest all of that money here at home (rerun Bob Casey’s 2006 Senate campaign)
- Slap a per-transaction tax on Wall Street “speculation”
- Strengthen Democracy (i.e. undo Citizens United, public financing of campaigns, immigration amnesty)
Yawn.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Regards,
GtG
PS One definition of a "Conservative" is a person who hasn't had a new idea in one hundred years. The corresponding definition of a "Liberal" is a person who has NEVER had a new idea!
“The Contract also calls for a crackdown on corporations to enforce equal pay for equal work...”
That’s exactly the kind of heavy-handed regulatory action that destroys jobs. If corporations begin to expect such a crackdown, then they’re going to hire fewer people or even cut headcount to reduce the number of employees through which they can be attacked for “not providing equal pay for equal work.” Oppressive labor laws and regulation reduce employment levels (obviously), which is why Europe has had much higher unemployment than America over the last 40 years.
Tax increases on business owners are also a terrible idea that reduces the return on investment in employees and equipment and thus causes a decline in hiring and investment. The only way to substantially increase employment levels is to completely repeal the dreadful Obamacare law and cut way back on other oppressive regulation such as NLRB interventions and idiotic CO2 regulation. Liberals, you can’t have it both ways. If you want those brilliant business people to hire more employees, you have to get your filthy paws out of their lives and let them run their businesses for the benefit of their employees, their communities, and themselves and not for the benefit of your extreme left-wing agenda.
Meaning the RATS know they can roll the Stupid Party by giving up something extreme that has no hope of passing in return for agreement on the remainder of the proposals. We'll of course be called terrorists again for opposing another disastrous bill that the Republicans will claim is the best they could do.
Liberal American Dream?
You mean smoking pot and collecting government checks while doing the “hard work” of writing hippie poetry?
I guess “Communist Manifesto” was already taken...
The median household income was $52,026 in 2010. This means that when government wastes $1 million, it destroys the income of 20 entire households. These Keynesian morons only know how to borrow, tax, inflate and spend. And their theory means that government waste is just as beneficial to the economy as some productive project.
No, thanks...I’ve had enough unicorn dreams and rainbow lies to gag a maggot.
what would the downside be of the autocuts kicking in?
so this is the contract to outsource more jobs overseas act.
You’d think they wouldn’t use practically the same phrase which they tore apart when Newt used it. Nothing like handing your enemy ammo...
“The Contract also calls for a crackdown on corporations to enforce equal pay for equal work,”
Which, in a Union Shop, output is geared to the least productive worker. How to make a country strong. By letting the laziest among us dictate quantity/quality.
By far most insultingly stupid demagogue catch phrase they’ve been resorting to lately has been “We are not broke”. As long as they can find enough desperate people who are willing to swallow that delusion, they win.
Contract to suck the last drop of blood from America, from the bloodsuckers who have already prostrated her.