Forum Post: FOCUS on Jobs Bill!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 10, 2011, 1:37 p.m. EST by sbgreer56
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I will be happy to join the protest when they narrow their focus more on taxing the rich like everybody else and passing our President's Job Bill, which the Repubs are blocking because they want to protect their rich lobbyists.
The majority of the spending is on : from wiki " Cutting and suspending $245 billion worth of payroll taxes for qualifying employers and 160 million medium to low income employees."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_jobs_act
This does nothing except put a few more pennies in every employed persons pocket. This part of the bill does not increase employment at all. It also creates "Creating the National Infrastructure Bank (capitalized with $10 billion), originally proposed in 2007, to help fund infrastructure via private and public capital." I don't trust this to help the US infrastructure, I see this as a give away to private capitol. For example the bank and goldman sachs decide to build a road. They then have to get profits on the road so they set up tolls. goldman sachs then gets profits from that. The country should build the roads themselves then let people use it for free(paid through normal tax modes not behind the scenes taxes like toll roads).
It is not about jobs. Jobs are slavery. If we had universal prosperity, we could work or sit under a tree. Choice based on our free will.
I'll take sitting under a tree, along with everyone else. Now that we are all riding in the cart, who's going to pull it.
the only thing that matters right now is CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM, unless you get the big money out of politics, no change whatsoever will occur, this should be the focus of the protests, we need to have honest politicians that work for the public before any thing else can get done, campaign finance reform (ending corporate personhood, kicking the lobbyists out of the Washington) is the perfect starting point. It really is a no brainer that this should be the one thing we can all agree on. Because unless we do this, all those other demands that people have will never be addressed, not in a millions years.
Is it only the republicans protecting their rich lobbyists? Who was Obama's 2008 top campaign fund donor?
Hell look who's funding him now!
I can go for taxing the rich like everyone else. The bottom 50% pay an average tax rate of 2.97% and that should be good enough for the rich as well (who coherently pay an average tax rate of 23%.) I'm all for fairness in the tax system.
The jobs bill is not a jobs bill. It's another stimulus program that is roughly 1/2 the size of the first failed plan. Neither the republicans in the house nor the democrats in the senate believe that it will do anything to create jobs.
Why would we continue trying to push the 2009 stimulus package in 2011. More gov. spending wont help anything at this point.
Obummer's jobs bill is just another bag of temporary gimmicks, just like the last five stimulus packages.
I think you will find that the person who blocked the last vote on the bill was harry reid!
I'm pretty much for anything Harry Reid is against. He's a douche.
"Reid has also been criticized for several potentially self-enriching tactics. In 2005, Reid earmarked a spending bill to provide for building a bridge between Nevada and Arizona that would make land he owned more valuable. Reid called funding for construction of a bridge over the Colorado River, among other projects, "incredibly good news for Nevada" in a news release after passage of the 2005 transportation bill. He owned 160 acres (65 ha) of land several miles from the proposed bridge site in Arizona. The bridge could add value to his real estate investment.[33] A year later it was reported that Reid had used campaign donations to pay for $3,300 in Christmas gifts to the staff at the condominium where he resides;[34] federal election law prohibits candidates from using political donations for personal use. Reid's staff stated that his attorneys had approved use of the funds in this manner, but that he nonetheless would personally reimburse his campaign for the expenses. Those reports notwithstanding, the conservative group Citizens United announced it had filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission to investigate the matter." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid
how true!