16th August 2010, 3:51 PM
Weltall Wrote:Jobs bills are a very silly idea, though. They are entirely counter-intuitive. A healthy economy produces jobs. A jobs bill can't produce a healthy economy, and legislation can't create jobs out of nothing--except by expanding government, which will increase the economy's decline and lead to more layoffs in the private sector. It's nonsense no matter which party spouts it.
In a global market, there are going to be more and more aspects which will affect us, and be entirely beyond our ability to influence directly. The Fed is only one piece of the puzzle, and there's no realistic way we cut off our national economy from the rest of the world.
Is that the kind of thing Republicans use to cover for the fact that their economic position is to oppose anything that might help the majority of the people, and only do what Wall Street wants? Because it doesn't work, the transparency of how absurd arguing against creating jobs is is quite obvious.
I mean, how do you make the economy healthier? You spend money. What do jobs bills do? They spend money in the economy. Pretty simple. :)
Oh, and as far as the government goes, under government control GM has turned itself around and is going to post its largest earnings ever this year. And this is after the GOP argued so strongly against the GM bailout because "GM is hopeless".
Now even many opponents of that bailout have admitted that they were wrong, considering how extremely well it is going and how the companies have been significantly turned around.