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Playful Walrus on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:23:43 AM
H. Rodham Clinton and B. Hussein Obama, according to this report by Steven R. Hurst of the Associated Press, are promising to be Santa Claus again, this time with jobs.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing billions of dollars a year Wednesday to keep jobs from being shipped abroad as she appealed to blue collar workers in Pennsylvania, the next big primary contest where she hopes to trim rival Barack Obama's lead.
That is not the President’s job – to spend money “to keep jobs from being shipped abroad”. You know what sends jobs abroad? Companies find they can get more done for less trouble and expense elsewhere. Why? Federal interference is one reason.
But the former first lady showed no signs of quitting as she focused on job creation and challenges to the U.S. economy at campaign appearances across Pennsylvania, which holds the next primary contest on April 22 with 158 delegates at stake.
The only jobs a President creates are government jobs.
At an economic summit in Pittsburgh on Wednesday organized by her presidential campaign, Clinton was expected to propose the elimination of tax breaks for companies that move jobs to other countries and use the savings to provide $7 billion a year in tax incentives to persuade companies to "insource" jobs in the United States
Bait and rebates… enough already. If you’re going to have business taxes, make them even. Do not give companies “welfare”. But do not punish them, either, unless they commit personal or property crimes. That’s what our government is supposed to be about – protecting us from threats to our property or our selves. It isn’t there to redistribute wealth, or run our lives for us, or make us feel good.
Pennsylvania and other states holding upcoming primaries, including Indiana and Kentucky, have suffered the loss of manufacturing jobs in recent years and have yet to transition to new industries and other ways of expanding their economies.
And the best thing the President can do it to get out of the way and tell people to take care of themselves and not rely on “someone else” to make sure they have a job.
Clinton's plan would offer new tax benefits for research and job development. It would also create "innovation and research clusters" and provide $500 million annually in investments to encourage the creation of high-wage jobs in clean energy.
More bait and rebates. STOP! If a President really had the ability to create high-wage jobs, why not create 100 million high wage jobs, and make is so everyone in the U.S. has a high wage job? Does HRC think only so many people are worthy of high wage jobs, but don't currently have one?
"Senator McCain has been saying I don't understand national security, but he's the one who wants to keep tens of thousands of United States troops in Iraq for as long as 100 years," Obama said.
Another non-sequitur from B. Hussein Obama. That’s okay – the MySpace generation won’t pick up on that. They can barely remember what was said two seconds ago.
"One hundred years in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 may make sense to George Bush and John McCain but it is the wrong thing to do," Obama said, drawing applause at the town-hall session.
And Germany had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, and yet we’re still there.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Obama's remarks showed his "complete lack of preparedness to be commander in chief."
"His attempt to paint McCain's position as something else is nothing but the disingenuous, old-style politics that he claims to reject," Bounds said.
Exactly.
Clinton assaulted McCain as a candidate who would stand back and watch as the U.S. economy spiraled downward and blamed Bush for the nation's deepening financial difficulties.
Better a President stand back and do nothing than make things worse and punish people who have been responsible with their finances. The problem is, the federal government already does too much. If it did nothing, we’d be better off.
She announced support for a plan to create 3 million new jobs to rebuild the U.S. infrastructure.
Obama latched onto the same theme, promising to create jobs by using $60 billion he said would be saved by ending the Iraq war.
These people either have a complete lack of economic understanding, or they think YOU have. I suspect the latter.
Jobs are created by businesses. People get jobs by offering something for which other people are willing to pay – labor, time, expertise, skill, creativity, whatever. The more a business can produce goods and services for which other people will pay, the more jobs it will create.