Posted on 02/04/2010 5:35:00 PM PST by mdittmar
Senate leaders plan to pass a jobs bill next week featuring tax breaks for employers that hire unemployed workers, a rare bipartisan effort in an election-year Congress sharply divided along political lines.
"We want to work with the Republicans and it appears to me, on the jobs program, they want to work with us," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters. "We do believe very emphatically that we will be having a bipartisan bill."
The Senate will start work on the bill Monday, Reid said. If the bill is passed by the end of next week, when the Senate takes a President's Day break, it would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory.
Passage of a bipartisan bill would contrast sharply with the way Congress has done business for the past year, reflecting the Democrats' diminished power since Republican Scott Brown scored a stunning victory last month in a special Senate election in Massachusetts. With Brown seated Thursday, Senate Democrats no longer have a filibuster-proof majority in the body, meaning they need at least some Republican support to pass legislation.
Democrats believe a jobs bill that includes tax breaks Republicans support is a good way to break the ice, while also reflecting Obama's renewed emphasis on creating jobs. Also, lawmakers worried about re-election in the midst of double-digit unemployment want to be seen as helping the 7 million Americans who have lost their jobs in the recession.
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Unemployment should be addressed by 1) construction of the border fence, with a completion date no later than May 1 (that’ll have the bonus of pissing off the idiot commies); 2) rounding up all illegals and deporting them (after processing them as criminals, and locking them up while checking for forensic matches with evidence from unsolved crimes); 3) eliminating the so-called stimulus, TARP, and government (taxpayer) support for ACORN, PBS, NPR, and all the so-called community organizations and so-called art associations; 4) dropping all retail excise on gasoline and diesel, replacing it with taxes on all hydrocarbon imports and exports; 5) opening up coastal regions and the ANWR to drilling; 6) flattening the income tax while dropping it to a low level, while adding a small federal sales tax (we spend more than we make, due to criminal activities, people like Raum who avoid taxes, and chargin’ it) and eliminating most deductions; 7) restoring incentives to productive lives by eliminating all racist and sexist preferences in hiring (so-called affirmative action, known to intelligent people for what they are, quotas), race-norming, and the stupid federal requirements for preferential treatment to so-called minority-owned businesses and union shops.
The problem with Scott Brown’s victory is that it is allowing the Dems to pivot to the center well before the midterm election, and pass “Centrist” bills.
CALL IT WHAT IT IS!! IT IS SIMPLY A SECOND STIMULUS PACKAGE!!
3 posted on Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:39:30 PM by originalbuckeye
"The other thing I'll point out is we now have...we are working on a...we're told not to call it another stimulus bill. We're calling it a jobs bill."....
Congressman Brad Sherman (D - CA)
OK. Thing is. Giving tax breaks to employers so they hire people is well....STUPID! I am an employer and I need sales so I need more people to do jobs. I am not going to hire someone at $10 and hour and find them something to do until sales pick up so I can get my tax break next year. It is just insane! Find a way to give the American people confidence that things are going to get better and let the economy grow by getting out of the way!
No pork, please.
I see it more in the vein of write offs given for charitable contributions. So what if the effect is minimal. I’m looking for one good reason why I should object to this. You haven’t provided it. And screaming “get out of the way”? Please. One of the few things conservatives DO approve of the government doing is providing tax relief. That is something I’m perfectly fine with them passing.
I recognize this will not suddenly send unemployment even down 1% but anytime a Democratic Congress takes it into their head to pass ANY tax cut I don’t see why I should object. Unless of course they tag something else to it which they probably will. As far as I can tell though people are just reflexively opposing this for political reasons or because it’s not good enough. Well I oppose political considerations as a factor and as for the “not good enough” who says we stop pushing? Accept this and then push for more.
Now here is an article that elaborates on the package and of course suggests it is more then a proposal to offer new tax breaks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/us/politics/05dems.html
Suggested attachments include health care coverge for unemployed workers and highway repairs. THESE are good reasons to oppose the bill.
JUST ANOTHER SPENDING BILL!!!! NO JOBS!!!!!
The Democrat Majority and the Obama Administration will not consider any “solution” to any problem that does not further empower the government.
There, I explained EVERYTHING in 22 words.
Tell me now! What is it that people do not understand?
note to the spinelessrepublicans....NO COMPROMISE!
NO! The Republicans need to give more than an “appearance” that they want to completely politically defeat the liberal, socialist, Marxist Democrat Party. They need to proceed with the destruction, and none deserves it more than the Democrats.
Before this defeat is complete there will come into being another pro-American political party to replace the Democrats.
Bipartisanship with Marxists is the last thing America needs.
this is part of thedemhole strategy...put together another pork-filled payoff to their unions, send money to their districts, etc., and call it a “jobs’ bill. then if it passes, it’s a win for them, they’ve paid off the SEIU again and the mediawhores rave and praise the “jobs” bill until November. If the wusspublicans hold together and defeat it, then Obama, the demholes and their mediawhores get to scream “THE REPUBLICANS BLOCKED THE JOBS BILL” every day until November.
I would read the bill...very closely...they are going to piece mill the health care bill....as Pelosi said we will get it through.....”even if we have to pole vault”
It won’t matter if unemployment is >9% by November.
As Nixon said, elections are won or lost on unemployment rates more than any other economic metric.
Let the RATS have this ridiculous jobs bill, but drag the process out as much as feasible.
Instead of just telling us about all the jobs they have created or saved, the administration and the press need to find actual living people who are working because of the stimulus package. Tell and show us what they were doing before the stimulus, what job they are doing now and how much they are making. Don’t forget to tell us if their salary is being paid with US Taxpayers’ money! If so, that isn’t really a job created, it is a temporary handout!
No, Zero doesn’t have to do that. All he has to say is ‘we created or saved xxxxx# of jobs’ and his Media Minions will dutifully report it as fact. If we had an independent Media in this country we would not be in this situation.
Dont have to have a jobs bill anymore....Unemplyment down to %9.7!!!
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