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In 300+ Days The GOP Has Created 0 and Killed 4.2 Million Jobs
In the now 300 plus days since Republicans have taken control of the House, GOP policies have zero jobs and destroyed over 4.2 million jobs through spending cuts and legislation.
At the 200 day mark of GOP control, House Republicans had voted to create 0 jobs, and had cast votes that would kill 1.9 million jobs. House Republicans have also pushed through spending cuts that they claimed would create jobs, but they have had the opposite effect.
According to study by the Center For American Progress, an additional 60,000 jobs were when Republicans slashed funding for law enforcement, clean up at nuclear weapons production facilities, and The Federal Buildings Fund of The General Services Administration.
The study found that this was just the tip of the iceberg,
Estimates of the number of jobs directly lost by these cuts run upwards to 60,000. The jobs losses that are a direct result of those actions will have a secondary impact on a wide array of businesses ranging from automobile producers to local restaurants and dry cleaning establishments, causing the disappearance of a significant number of additional jobs.
Similar stories could be told about many other budget cuts made in this bill—cuts that resulted in further job losses—but that would require many more pages and exhaust the patience of most readers. All of the various 250 program reductions in the FY 2011 continuing resolution probably eliminated more 370,000 jobs.
It is not just that Republicans have no interest in creating jobs, but the GOP has a vested electoral interest in killing jobs. As Sen. Bernie Sanders explained yesterday, Republicans are voting against any legislation that might create a job. The Republicans have been pushing spending cuts because they know that cutting spending is the one sure way to make sure that unemployment doesn’t decrease. The Republican Party doesn’t care that millions of their constituents are suffering. They are trying to defeat Barack Obama and win an election.
House Republicans are literally creating unemployment with their policies. Besides their spending cuts, the House GOP voted for three separate bills that would kill 1.9 million jobs, H.R. 1, H.R. 2, and H. Con. Res. 34.When you add in the 2 million jobs that House Republicans are not creating by refusing to vote on the American Jobs Act, and the 370,000 killed by spending cuts the total is 4.27 million jobs that the GOP is either refusing to create or has killed.
Over 20% of nation’s unemployed could be back to work if Republicans would embrace job creation instead of job killing. Republicans are prolonging this recession for political gain. After more than a year of these tactics, this fact is no longer a shock or a surprise. It’s reality.
If House Republicans won’t let the American people find a job, then the only thing to do is make sure that they lose theirs.
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39 Responses to In 300+ Days The GOP Has Created 0 and Killed 4.2 Million Jobs
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Conservative Heart
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 6:57 pm
If you don’t have a job in this economy, BLAME YOURSELF!!
There are plenty of great jobs just waiting for the so-called “99% -Americans” to do. For instance, there are tons of tomatoes and other veggies rotting in Alabama farms. 99ers should go to Alabama and pick fruits for $1 a bucket. At that rate, they only need to pick 100 buckets a day to feed their families.
Or they can find a job at WalMart. Just push those old people currently working there out of the way. They’re old anyway, and won’t put up much resistance.
Or they can flip burgers at McDonald’s for the amazing salary of minimum wage. The Mickey D’s down the block from me is hiring.
If 99ers don’t have a job, BLAME YOURSELF!!
But I can do better than offer career paths and job leads. I am personally showing lazy liberals how I can create jobs. I need another gardener, who I pay $40 every month. I also have some remodeling work in my kitchen that needs to be done. I’ll pay you $50 for the whole day plus 2 cold cans of beer.
See that, liberal hippies? Now that’s a jobs plan Real Americans can get behind!
copiki
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 7:37 pm
I know you are a conserva-troll but this toxic blend of ignorance and arrogance really annoys me. What the Republican christo-fascists really mean when they say these things that you so willingly regurgitate is that they want to turn America into a third world country, so that everyone except the “haves” settles for terrible working and living conditions with barely enough money to make a living for their family, no social safety net to speak of, and no hope of raising themselves out of their situation.
What they want is a world run by corporations, and every time you tell Americans that are standing up for equality and the right to pursue happiness that they should blame themselves for this situation you are not only being a condescending fool, you are also being quite frankly un-American. These minimum (or less than minimum) wage jobs aren’t bad, but telling educated young men and women entering the work force they should pick tomatoes with their engineering degree is an insult. You are either very privileged and enjoy grinding those less fortunate than you are under your heel or you are being willfully ignorant of the plight of many Americans.
Please, though, continue regurgitating your talking points to the majority of Americans. When they hear what you and your corporate overlord’s plan for America, I’m sure even more will stand up to join the 99%. I only hope that we can get corporate money out of politics so that we can get back on track to making America the land of opportunity and freedom that it was truly meant to be.
AcidQueen
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Conservative Heart is being satirical. You do know what satire is, right? Or did you get outraged in high school English when the teacher read “A Modest Proposal”, too?
Debbie
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 7:19 am
I got it Conservative Heart…sometimes it takes a satirical view point to make a stronger impact on the absurdity of the situation.
copiki
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 9:59 am
Sry, not familiar with CH, and just got off a “discussion” with certain conservative family members. Was perhaps too hasty. My apologies Conservative Heart.
Keith Bowes
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 11:46 pm
“A Modest Proposal”? Is that anything like “Indecent Proposal”?
Middle Molly
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Hey, copiki, I read about half way through it before I realized it was satire… The problem is that this is the kind of stuff that conservatives actually write! No wonder it takes a little time to separate the satirists from the real conservative thinkers.
Julian
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I love your sarcasm, Conservative Heart. Bravo, you almost sound like you mean what you say! If you’re not making a hilarious joke, though, then I feel bad for your point of view. Of course there are back breaking jobs in the field, and at WalMart, and at McDonald’s, but if those are the only real attainable jobs out there, then we’re screwed as a nation. A nation of minimum-wage workers not really making jack shit and only having the option of working for the mega corporations as a base-level peon is NOT the way I want my America to be. We weren’t like this 20 years ago, and to offer these stale crumbs of opportunity as “good enough” is laughable. I’ll assume you’re joking, though, it gives me hope we can still find humor in these hard times.
Sally
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 7:43 am
His post reminds be of “The Jungle” about the meat-packing industry of 1900, when immigrants were paid squat, housed by ‘the company’ in squalor, had no hope of anything getting better, and were too tired to really care. They worked hard, died young, and passed on nothing to their kids. Then the union movement happened, and the middle class was born. Now the GOP is waging war on women, the middles, and anyone else standing in the way of their next million. When did greed become so very important to so many people on the right? For a party they want to call ‘conservative and Christian,’ they sure act more like entitled rich kids who never set foot in a church nor cracked open the New Testament. Jesus had words for these kind of folks, and it wasn’t “see you in Heaven.”
Cassandra Lettes
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Your so ignorant its funny. And what’s even funnier is that in several years once there agenda that your pushing so heavy for them gets bigger than you, you will be viewing liberal ways much differant. You tea baggers are selfish and only think of personal gain rather than the success as a whole. America will fail and it will be you guys that does it. Big business don’t give a fuck about us, so why should we give a fuck about big business.
Reynardine
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Poe
Ingarose
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 8:23 pm
OK, you said that once to my post “Poe”. What does that mean? Mr. Poe the poet?
As far as Conservative heart is concerned, he used to fool me too. He really sounds like a mean, hateful, tea party Republican, but after a while I began to laugh at his posts, aping the GOP to a tee.
AcidQueen
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Poe’s Law.
Reynardine
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 3:21 pm
A Poe is someone who impersonates a person of another viewpoint so as to lampoon him. The guy who started this was named Poe, but not Edgar Allen.
scwylder
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Cassandra, please! Don’t call people ignorant if you can’t tell the difference between your and you’re, and there and their; how to spell different (and, when used as an adverb, the correct word is “differently”); and basic grammar (“it will be you guys that does it.”). I agree with your basic point, but you need to express it in a way that does not label you as ignorant.
Sam
Nov. 4th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
By saying that it is wrong to care only for self-success, you are implying that one should not hesitate to sacrifice him/herself for the greater good. There is no success more important than that of the individual, for when we become a nation of sacrificial lambs, we become nothing more than cannibals.
Cleveland
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Assuming sarcasm here, what you say does illustrate how little Americans value labor and think capital just appears out of thin air.
Cardboard87
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Lol at Conservative Heart, that was my hearty laugh for the day! They sound just like the dim-witted conservative tools we see on tv. Be careful though; post something like this on a Fox News forum (Or Wall Street Journal, or another conservative outlet), and GOP supporters would be taking your “points” as valid arguments.
liberal hippy
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 1:33 pm
How can you put conservative next to the word heart? It is an oxymoron! Idiot!
liberal hippy
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 1:36 pm
apologizies christian heart I don’t know you and thought you were for real and not joking. Sadly I did believe it because Conservatives are exactly like that.
Paul
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Mr. Cain, is that you? Wow, and I guess you call yourself a “Christian”, huh?
Amanda
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Guys…he was joking.
AcidQueen
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 9:09 pm
And Conservative Heart hooks a few more folks that have clearly never heard of “satire”.
Ingarose
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 12:08 am
Thank you Acid Queen for clarifying Poe to me as Poe’s law. Never heard of it, but googled it. It is fascinating. One is never too old to learn.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 9:52 pm
I have to ask, how does the GOP plan on getting re-elected with those numbers? Of course that’s continingent on the Dems broadcasting those numbers. Which as we all know might be pretty dicy
DJ
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 11:16 pm
…Ha!
…and I thought China had already stopped buying our long term treasuries, and we were 14 Trillion in debt and running a 1.2 Trillion dollar deficit!
Glad you guys cleared that up. Everything is just 1 parties fault!
Hells bells… now we can just vote right (left, actually), and everything is going to be A-OK!
Ole Ole Olson
Nov. 1st, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Correction: the GOP House has actually *caused* the loss of 370k jobs since they were sworn in.
REPORT: House GOP’s ‘Job Creating’ Spending Cuts Destroyed 370,000 Jobs
thinkprogress.org/economy...
Anne
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 11:50 am
Of course, they haven’t created any jobs, because their objective was to gain enough power so they could fight the cultural wars of the 20th century. Cutting funding for critical programs like education, infrastucture, family planning, and health care are all facets of their plan. I don’t know why anyone thought voting Republican out of pique to stick it to the president would benefit him or her. Some people actually tried to make the same point by staying home, and in both cases, folks are suffering acutely from buyers’ remorse.
Middle Molly
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 5:25 pm
We’ve actually had 20 months of private sector job growth that has generated 2.5 million private sector jobs despite the Repubs obstructionism. Imagine how well we would be doing now if we actually had a government that supported regular people.. vs. the rich guys.
JS
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 6:36 pm
This shouldn’t be news to anyone. Mitch O’Connel told us that the #1 goal of the Republican Party is to defeat Barack O’Bama. There was never any mention of reenergizing the economy or putting people to work. It those things were to happen, their #1 goal wouldn’t be met.
JS
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Excuse me – of course I meant Mitch McConnell
Dave
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Ha, Ha!!! The only jobs Congress can create are government jobs and those we DON’T NEED! Private jobs have been created because the House has not allowed continued liberal out of control spending that has bankrupted us. There are always jobs, but the whiners are protesting. No wonder they don’t have one. They are losers as Obama is a total failure.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Clearly clueless
liberalMidfinger
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Hey tool, we’re spending 24% of our budget on guns and bombs instead of streets, schools or fire-departments.
No wonder morons like you keep repeating all this nonsense about some mysterious “liberal spending” (without ever actually pointing out precisely what spending that would be) while half of Texas is on fire.
It’s Bush’s wars for fun and profit that have brought the country down, on top of Reagans foolish “trickle down” bullcrap.
Enjoy your minimum wage job at McDonalds, failboy.
Rixar13
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 9:20 pm
“In the now 300 plus days since Republicans have taken control of the House, GOP policies have zero jobs and destroyed over 4.2 million jobs through spending cuts and legislation.”
Grrrr
Inez
Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 10:59 pm
99% 99% 99% 99% get out and vote Democratic lines. Push the backs of the 1% to the wall. There are more of us than there are of them………………………………………….Don’t let the “get Our Profits” further kill the middle class. The American dream has turned into a nightmare. Wake up 99%ers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas
Nov. 3rd, 2011 at 2:15 pm
But hey, at least the House Republicans took time this week, to reaffirm the phrase “In God We Trust” as our country’s official motto. That’s gotta be worth something, right? (*sarcasm*)
madmilker
Nov. 9th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
oh! and less US not forget…
Wal*Mart puts less than 5% foreign in all their stores in China…
www.wal-martchina.com/eng...
depriving all those nice people from purchasing foreign made items….
like the ones that are made by Americans….
Elephant or Jack@…
they all turnips.
so is corporate America.