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GOP shuts down deficit-increasing ‘jobs’ bill.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 25th, 2010 at 10:06 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Ace of Spades HQ sums up wonderfully (if originally profanely) the destruction of that 100 billion dollar (and 30 billion deficit-increasing) waste of tax money* known as a ‘jobs bill:’

Democrats: Give us $30 billion. GOP: Um….no. Democrats: Come on! GOP: Nah. Democrats: How come? GOP: One, I don’t have it; and two, you’re already into me for more than a trillion already. Democrats: So what’s another measly $30 billion? Please? GOP: Man, just [expletive deleted] off. Seriously. Democrats: WHY DO YOU HATE THE POOR! GOP: I don’t hate the poor. I just hate you.

But I would like to remind my readers of one thing: this blow for fiscal sanity?  Brought to you by Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (via Instapundit), much to the consternation of Democratic partisans… which apparently includes the author of the Politico article.  Or possibly Politico was just supposed to be in on the stimulus, somehow? – It’s all kind of murky these days.

Moe Lane

*Note for Democratic politicians and other economic illiterates: just because someone can pay for something without increasing the debt, does not mean that someone should.  And, frankly, after the way that the ‘stimulus’ did precisely nothing for the country the Democrats are not exactly trustworthy on this topic; which is my polite way of saying that in a just universe they’d all be wired up with electric shock collars that would go off whenever the collars detected activity in the “Let’s spend other people’s money!” portion of the brain.

Yes.  Why is it we never fund scientific or engineering projects like that?  That would be useful.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Spartan4Life

    Maybe the idiocy of a bankrupt Federal Government bailing out bankrupt State Governments so a bunch of dead weight government workers could keep their jobs for a few more months has finally soaked into the brains of Ms. Snowe and Ms. Collins.

    Since we already borrow $.40/$1.00 the government spends it is true, yes, we don’t have the money.

  • johnt

    There’s never enough when you’re addicted. The notion that government can and does create jobs is both an historic and economic joke. But it still works on the morons who cry for da fedralguvmint to “do something”.
    A dreadful reminder of the precarious state of the human mind and intelligence. Face it though, the bastards are winning.

  • itsjoanne

    was supposed to be all about jobs, jobs, jobs.

    I guess the Dems are so far to the left they have even lost Collins and Snowe.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    Collins and Snowe are not really ideological at all. They look at what a policy does. If it sucks too badly, they oppose it. If everyone really does get free Snickers Bars from Socialism, they are down with that as well. Right now, the worm has turned and socialism is failing badly. Hence, The Bobsey Twin Senators from maine are casting some pretty smart votes, based on the data at hand.

  • ktsub

    This is how we teach the GOP leaders, they have stuck their neck out, so they deserve positive phone calls today.

  • The_Rebel

    Scott Brown instead of Martha Coakley. Had the election gone the other way, this bill would probably have passed. Brown won’t be with us on every key issue, but I’ll take whatever we can get from Ted Kennedy’s old seat.

  • The_Gadfly

    On the other hand, the polling numbers they have been receiving in their election campaigns might have, at least for a few months.

  • The_Gadfly

    And had it passed, Snowe and Collins would likely have voted with the package rather than against (the LSM PR boost shifting their votes despite what their internal polling might show).

  • Spartan4Life

    Just pissed away….

  • The_Rebel

    n/t

  • acat

    If you’re going to be pedantic… (grin)

    The way this government is going, the amount we pay in interest is going to dwarf the amount borrowed – and that’s really scary.

    Mew

  • earlgrey

    I am still smarting from the financial reform package, and was about to unsubscribe toScott Brown’s mailings over it. I don’t live in MA, though I did contribute to this campaign. More than I’d like to admit.

  • wannabeanncoulter

    Plenty of jobs down in the gulf region mopping up oil. (Personally, I couldn’t take the heat and humidity — but I have a job anyway.)

    Also, Stephen Colbert is staging a Field Trip for the Unemployed, sort of an internship on how to be a farmworker. (Warning: United Farmworkers of America is involved.)

    Detroit is considering shrinking the city (thus saving money on infrastructure maintenance) by plowing under abandoned neighborhoods and let the prairie re-emerge, so there probably will be jobs for those of us who can operate heavy equipment. That leaves me out since I can’t even parallel park and mini-compact.

    And those of you with blogging skills — I hear there’s an opening at the Washington Post! ;-)

  • dusty922

    The FUTA fund (federal unemployment) is required by law to pay for itself. During low unemployment, the fund typically runs a surplus. During high unemployment, the fund typically runs at a loss. However, if the fund runs dry and needs to borrow money, it is required by law that it pay the money back. Therefore, if unemployment benefits were extended again, the FUTA taxes would have to be increased, by law. So ultimately, it is employers and the employed that pay for the unemployed.

    I go back and forth on this issue because I know that in order to qualify for unemployment you have to have lost your job through no fault of your own and you have to have earned wages for over a year prior to being laid off. It’s not the same situation as welfare. Most unemployed Americans have a solid work history prior to this recession. Honestly, I think Republicans are going to lose political ground here because there are millions of Americans unemployed right now, both Democrat and Republican alike. Not extending benefits during these tough times is going to be seen as being cold-hearted to the American public. And, perhaps it is, a little But I do agree with getting rid of the COBRA subsidies and the jobs stimulus. That’s obviously going too far.

  • eastbaylarry

    I can tell you that my opinion is 26 weeks is enough.

    Focus on fixing the economy and the jobs will be there.

  • eastbaylarry

    I can tell you that my opinion is 26 weeks is enough.

    Focus on fixing the economy and the jobs will be there.