CSPAN Repub says: "Poor people need jobs, Poor people don't create jobs."

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) is such an ass.

I suppose he's never heard of self-employment and small family businesses and micro-loans. I know of many poor people in my town who work in small businesses or who are self-employed.

He's babbling on about how great the economy is and how the tax cuts for the rich are important. He says tax cut are necessary to provide jobs for the poor.

They offshore jobs.
They feed the political money machine to get more control.
They evade taxes.

a big class war coming. It ain't gonna be pretty.

and he made no effort to even try to be polite or parse his words carefully.

Unfortunately, there is that 30% of the voting public who completely agree with his viewpoint even if the Republican economic policies hurt them personally.

The Katrina disaster has uncovered deep-seated racism and class issues and brought them to the surface of our national discussion. I find it so very disturbing how the poor are being demonized and spat upon.

And it's not the poor who are firing the first shots. Hell, they're practically unarmed.

Thank God for consumer culture, otherwise there would have been a popular 'peasant's revolt' a long time ago.

Because lets face it, Master Card and Visa are financing most people's standard of living these days.

the rich have wet dreams of concentration camps for the poor, of shoving them into ovens and gas rooms...the final solution.

6 years ago, when clinton was president, I would have thought anyone saying that, even in jest, was looney. Now I firmly believe it.

It's just becoming more visable.

Rich people don't create jobs, because that pesky payroll cuts into the profits.
So do taxes, which is why it's important to make Il Douche's tax cuts permament. It's important to the Yacht builders, too.

How'd this wind up here? It was supposed to be in the Cheney thread?

And if THE GOVERNMENT gives them tax cuts, that's certainly no guarantee they'll use that money to create jobs in the US. They could, of course, but they may not. As you pointed out.

(or to avoid giving up wealth as in the case of taxes).

If that happens to result in creating jobs (i.e. here in the USA), so be it. But it is certainly not a definite consequence of the activities of "rich people".

Then they're laying off their American workers and hiring overseas for even more profit.

They certainly aren't creating any jobs in this country. Ask Rep. Hensarling what country he represents? If it's the United States, then this "trickle down" shit isn't working and never has, If he's representing the people of India, he's doing a fine job.

No one hires someone he doesn't REALLY need, no matter how rich he is.

Supply-side is now, and has always been lipstick on the pig.

head in the f***ing sand; just repeats what his dittomasters tell him

When obviously it's not true. Tax cuts do not create jobs!!!! Where are all the jobs they have created with their massive tax cuts of the last five years? Where?!!!

What creates jobs is DEMAND for products. What creates demand, is more people working who can afford to buy those products. They have the whole thing backwards and the last five years pretty much proves it.

I think what they need is a Katrina jobs program, govt. funded (with money that would have gone to tax-cuts ) to jump-start the economy, much as FDR did decades ago.

Tax cuts indeed do not create jobs.

Where does that tax cut money the rich get go?

Usually to buy a new Escalade, a new Louis Vuitton bag & a Rolex, and a trip to Tahiti.

The problem with these idiots is that they don't understand that what makes an economy strong, vibrant and sustainable is a powerful, sizeable, and consistent middle class.

Not to sound hard hearted, but creating jobs for poor people is not economically sound. Someone poor is still going to be poor if they get a low wage job. They'll just be a little less so, as part of the WORKING POOR! The working poor are not going to be able to drive the economy because the total spendable income is just not high enough to drive the consumption element of the economy, and they don't pay enough in taxes to generate federal revenue.

The rich can't buy enough Escalades or Louis Vuitton bags and Rolex watches to sustain the economy.

So, to this moron from Texas: IT'S THE MIDDLE CLASS, STUPID!
The Professor

There is some White Dem Rep. from MS on now. He didn't rebut the man's comments. Rather, he said that MS didn't have a breakdown of civil society like NOLA. (i.e. "we don't have a lot of blacks here.")

Good god. Why do rich whites hate poor people so? It makes me sad for our country. :(

Don't they realize that most of the displaced in NO were working and not just "sitting around" on their duffs & drawing government benefits. A lot of them are still out there in new places desperately looking for work. These people would have no need for public assistance IMO if they could find work that pays more than $5.50/hr. Once again it's classism at work here.

They just keep repeating it to make it true in the freepers minds and for people who don't like the government. Then someone else repeats it and say "See? *Insert name here* said it's true so it must be true!"

rich ASSHOLE REPUBLICANS?

They think if you're poor that you are a failure and therefore not worthy of help.
It's very mean but that's exactly what they think.

that teachers are failures? Perfect republican logic.

They need to get in the streets of America and see all of the new businesses being formed out of necessity.

repairing tires for the NOLA police and emergency workers. The police had no cash, so the two businessmen were taking IOUs and trusting the police to pay them back when they got money. These two men were working under a tree on the grounds of what I'm assuming was their wrecked garage/used tire shop.

They were working hard, unlike *.

part time jobs with to little health benefits etc - that's why even with two or three of such jobs those people are poor.

Supposedly the GOP's Trickle Down Economics would create jobs, which it did - even worse paying jobs, overseas. Thankyouverymuch.

It was at one of those staged social security events. He said something like she was a"real American" for working three jobs.
:grr:

This dude is a real work. Totally kool-aided and programmed to not think...just spew DeLay programmed talking points. The people who live in that asshole's district should sue for lack of services.

Of course, wingnut Steve lofts the dude softballs and quotes of of the Moonie times and just lets this runt babble on about how great the economy is and how tax cuts have to be kept and how the "recovery" has to come out of existing spending...translation: social spending (cause you know this scumbag would vote to INCREASE funding to more killing in Iraq and more corporate mercenary plundering).

Note how this shithead seperates the "recovery" from the rebuilding and had no clue on how any of this affects the defecits and in turn the economy. Clueless...but then his moron doesn't have to face reality...he's bought and paid for by the corporations and can bullshit and lie with a straight face...DeLay must be proud.

Then, in "fairness"...C-SPAN puts on the obligatory Democrat...almost always a DINO. Today: Gene Taylor. When was the last time a CBC member was on? Especially on this topic...

They had CBC members and coverage of the CBC press conferences in the week after Katrina hit, but, since then, they've not made a repeat appearance.

It's to bad so many workers don't benefit from the profits generated by their labor.

has been denounced since the 1970's, but it makes the rich and TPTB feel better when they exploit the poor and working class.

Made me sick.

many of those JOBS to be outsourced... overseas?

Give me a break. :mad:

None of these right wing one liners holds the whole story. They are used to help the wealthy make more money and sucker the working class into helping them.

Because there are so many of us. The poor by necessity spend every dollar, hell every penny that comes their way. Through the sheer numbers alone we spend more than rodney richpiggie, it's not trickle down economics it's raise up economics.
If the poor had been given a fraction of the money rodney got this economy would be booming along and the middle class would be strong and vibrant.
Something rodney doesn't want, or seem to understand that when you have a strong bottom you can build higher. TO THE BARRICADES.

Halliburton question when he was asked.


bastard.

Neither do republicans

HA HA HA HA HA HA

I remember earlier this year when Clinton opened his library and there was this woman who spoke who went broke during Clinton's years. She got help with his walfare program and she was able to help open her own business and get her life together. She stated how now she employee's people who have been in her position to help them out.

Of course you need investment to build infastructure to create supply for the demand or potential demand you may be anticipating, but giving out tax cuts alone will NOT create jobs unless a company believes the demand is there.

I believe strongly in a demand driven economy and a transaction based recovery during hard times. Get extra money into the hands of people who will spend it. In the past this might be tough do to high savings rates and people not spending but that certainly isn't the case today with US society. Get that money to joe average and let him work some trickle up!