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dvhughes

(50 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:59 AM Oct 2012

Government doesn't create jobs?

Mitt Romney made sure everyone heard him say it nearing the end of the debate the other night that government does not create jobs.
it came at 92:20 of this video (you can scrub)

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50133291n&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CBSNewsTheEarlyShowLeisure+(CBS+News%3A+The+Early+Show%3A+Leisure)

However, this is what bothers me....
Obama then basically agrees with him and denies that government creates jobs. I feel he did this only for political expediency.
95:20 if the same vid.

This is not something that Dems should be repeating for it is something that is patently not true.
What about all of the infrastructure jobs created by the government stimulus? (Which could have been a lot more... ehhh...stimulating)
The government funding of science and tech research?
Not to mention police, firemen, teachers, etc...
There are countless jobs that have been created by government.

I am aware that this philosophy has been simmering since Reagan, but it seems to me to be a growing meme.
I truly fear that this will become yet another accepted myth that is continually repeated as common knowledge.
(Kinda like the rich are incentivized to create jobs by tax cuts.)
But the fact that Obama has already conceded this point, I think it is too late.
It has got to stop.

Sorry about the link there, I don't know what happened. Still works.

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Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
1. And keep in mind that Mitt Romney is a JOB DESTROYER by career
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:05 AM
Oct 2012

He "knows what it takes" to run a business, he says. Over and over and over again. This was the biggest lie he told all night, and he kept telling it. I imagine Obama never took it on because it sounds just like what every other politician always says. But in this case? it's not just political blather, it's a malicious lie; Romney has no idea how to run a business, his "business" was eviscerating people's livelihoods and making them foot the bill. He knows how to kill a business, he knows how to sell a business, he knows how to relocate a business, but he couldn't run a motherfucking lemonade stand.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
2. Romney: "government doesn't create jobs but I'll create 12 million jobs if you elect me President
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:08 AM
Oct 2012

according to my extremely vaguest of the vague 5 point jobs plan."

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
4. a lot of that acceptance of republican principles going around. biden did the same thing on social
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:12 AM
Oct 2012

security, accepting the 'crisis' meme.

if both candidates accept the same frame, we are likely to get basically the same policies.

 

glowing

(12,233 posts)
5. And both men are running for the Ultimate job.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:13 AM
Oct 2012

Plus how many people say, "Oh, he got a job working for the city or some other govt position as a source of pride... Because everyone knows that person will be paid decently and the job has health and benefits. More people wish for the "govt job". Privitizing so much of the contract work has really made the system more costly on one end and made work conditions for workers less profitable in their take home pay with less benefits.

More people wish their was direct hiring by the "govt" so they could get the "perks". There is really an underlying jealousy going on with govt jobs. Unions need to come roaring back and really try getting into the south and finding a way around the right to work laws.

quaker bill

(8,224 posts)
7. I have one, and will be leaving shortly to do it.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:32 AM
Oct 2012

It is curiouis that according to Mitt it does not exist. The paychecks keep coming.

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