Democrats Admit They Are Completely Baffled on How to Create Jobs

Democrats admit they don’t know what to do next to create jobs…
The Senate Republican Conference released this today:

Shot:

Senator Chuck Grassley: “‘Do they have a jobs agenda?’ the Iowa Republican asked. ‘Tell me what it is.’” (Steven Dennis & Jackie Kucinich, “Democrats Retreat to Beef Up Agenda,” Roll Call, 02/09/11)

Chaser:

“‘I don’t know what we’ll do next,’ said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.). The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate on Tuesday conceded that his party faces a dilemma as it tries to come up with a legislative agenda to create jobs …” (Alexander Bolton, “Dems face dilemma on jobs plan,” The Hill, 02/09/11)

Meanwhile… Republicans believe Congress should make it easier and cheaper to create jobs:

Instead of focusing on the American people’s priorities — namely, jobs and reducing government spending — Democrats are continuing to endanger job creation by defending their budget-busting health care legislation and planning even more unnecessary spending. Senate Republicans are committed to reducing the cost of health care, cutting spending, and creating an environment where businesses can grow and create jobs.

#1 February 9, 2011 at 4:13 pm
P. Aaron commented:

Democrats are completely Baffled…Period!
#2 February 9, 2011 at 4:21 pm
kansas commented:

How Government Can Create Jobs:

Get out of the way!!!!!!!
#3 February 9, 2011 at 4:21 pm
mike191 commented:

When your world view is stuck on outdated Fabian Socialist economics, the baffling is obvious.
#4 February 9, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Male Silverback commented:

Dang Kansas, you beat me to it. Nevertheless, that is exactly how the government can effect the creation of jobs.
#5 February 9, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Bill Mitchell commented:

The biggest problem with Socialism is that it doesn’t work. Calling Socialism “progressive” may be the greatest oxymoron in the history of earth.
#6 February 9, 2011 at 4:28 pm
John Fembup commented:

“Democrats Admit They Are Completely Baffled on How to Create Jobs”

Well, yeah, because government cannot create jobs, it can only destroy jobs. And that’s because government has NO resources except what it takes from productive people in the economy. Taking those resources might be used to “create” jobs somewhere, but at the cost of destroying jobs elsewhere, in productive sectors. Of course government takes its slice, which means that the result, when gvernment does it, is always less than the economy started with. In other words, government destroys jobs.

The right solution is for government to stop destroying jobs. That is, get out of the way – as much as possible.
#7 February 9, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Khan Krum commented:

Somebody better tell the Black Eyed Peas because they were imploring their Obamessiah to do just this (and indoctrinate the children [more]) during the half-time show at the Super Bowl. I think that this is going to break Will.i.am’s little communist heart.
#8 February 9, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Granny commented:

Here’s the list of cuts that will be included in the Continuing Resolution (national budget) next week. This is being called the “first round” of cuts -

http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=259
#9 February 9, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Hedgehog commented:

Communists don’t create jobs. They create poverty, misery, destruction and death. Except for themselves and those they find useful.
Democrats are Communists. No wonder they can’t figure out how to create jobs. it is not part of their agenda.
#10 February 9, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Spider commented:

Roll the tape from Senator Skelator’s debate with Linda McMahon…

How do you create a job?

“…. the government blah, regulations, blah, stimulus blah, blah, blah…”
#12 February 9, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Truck Driver Divorce commented:

OOOhh!
Ooh!
OOOOHHHH!! Pick me! I know! I know how the Democrats can create jobs!

Massive tax cuts!
Massive spending cuts!
Massive deregulation!
#13 February 9, 2011 at 4:55 pm
nohype commented:

The basis of economics is that people respond to incentives. If you increase regulations or taxes, you give businesses the incentive to shrink, not expand. If you reduce regulation or taxes, you give businesses an incentive to expand. It is unfortunate that so many of the Democrats, including the president, seem not to grasp this simple principle that incentives matter.
#14 February 9, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate on Tuesday conceded that his party faces a dilemma as it tries to come up with a legislative agenda to create jobs…

Hint: Stop legislating.

Piling on law after law and regulation after regulation doesn’t promote the creation of jobs.
#15 February 9, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Scott commented:

Lawyers, Poly Sci majors and bored housewives don’t have a clue about creating jobs…You’re kidding right???
#16 February 9, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Stuart commented:

Do democrats have enough math savy to understand the definition of an inverse relationship.
Democrats/ bureaucrats decrease jobs increase. Democrats /bureaucrats increase, jobs decrease.
It’s really pretty simple
#17 February 9, 2011 at 5:20 pm
kay commented:

“Democrats Admit They Are Completely Baffled on How to Create Jobs”

the NEA and the education system strikes again, this time its seen peculating at the top of the latte machine
#18 February 9, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Lance commented:

Everything the government does or spends is being charged to your account.
Every dollar is taken from business and workers.
Every regulatory expense eventually comes out of the consumers pocket.

They’re not idiots who can’t figure out how to create a job. They are demolitionist who know exactly what they’re doing.
#19 February 9, 2011 at 5:34 pm
MikeMose commented:

This disqualifies the Democratic Party as a viable political party in every state, and national election for all time!

This shows the complete failure that is the left!
#20 February 9, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Byzantine Bob commented:

Khank Krum (a la Comment #7)…

- What about that “boom, boom pow”…?

Surely you don’t deny that Those Powerful U’ns singing lyrics to those who are “so two-thousand and late” rather than being [Like Their Collective Black-Eed, Peaish Selves] “two-thousand and eight” – when it is, in fact, 2011- are both relevant, important, AND, above all… BOOM, BOOM, POW!!!
#21 February 9, 2011 at 5:44 pm
FGT commented:

Lance is correct, They don’t want jobs created.

As Barack Hussein’s science czar John Holdren says…

“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States”
#22 February 9, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Will.i.am commented:

“Obama, let’s get these kids educated / Create jobs so the country stays stimulated.”
#23 February 9, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Obama Worshipping Imbecile commented:

#12

100% Correct!

But, Dems are not baffled.

They have to say that.

Dems are feversihly working to destroy the private sector economy; make all Americans destitute and dependent; and steal our liberty.
#24 February 9, 2011 at 7:02 pm
squeaky commented:

ct. voted for the guy who didn’t know exactly how to create a job but considered lawsuits as job creator…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRSpQ1ud9R0
#25 February 9, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Scott commented:

They are taking 23% of GDP at the Federal level alone. These dollars are filtered through the world’s largest bureaucracy. They pay themselves first including performance bonuses, no sarc, healthcare and retirement plans. The remaining dollars are sent back into the economy via thousands of incoherent vote-buying schemes…And democrats wonder why this isn’t stimulative to the economy…
#26 February 9, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Joanne commented:

The idiots actually think they are suppose to create the jobs – socialists to the core. They are just suppose to create an economic environment, so businesses can start-up and thrive.
#27 February 9, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Dave in Houston commented:

They can’t even phrase the question correctly. The question is not how do we create jobs, but how do not inhibit job creation. Phrase it that way and the economy will be booming in two years and Obama will coast to a second term.

Not going to happen, though.
#29 February 9, 2011 at 11:25 pm
chuck in st paul commented:

They DO know how. The only problem is it requires doing a complete 180 policy-wise. Not likely.
#30 February 10, 2011 at 1:22 am
tommy mc donnell commented:

when citizens spend the money they earned for goods and services it creates a job. when politican use the money the citizens earned to put people on the dole it creates a vote. if you want to create jobs cut taxes and let the citizens spend their money on goods and services.the more money that we take out of the hands of the serial spendaholics in government the better off we will be.
#31 February 10, 2011 at 3:01 am
Pa Deuce commented:

Obama would say “Blame Bush,” for job losses, but no one believes that any more. Bush had a very good four-year period of growth and jobs from 2004 to 2007 after the Bubba Recession and before the collapse of the Democrats’ Unaffordable Housing Project.

Uncertainty and overextension kill investment and markets (DOW, NASDAQ, etc.). Falling investment rates and falling markets results in slow or negative growth and job losses, usually at least several months after the markets fall. These basic observations have been well known for decades, if not centuries.

Uncertainty cascaded beginning in 2007 when the sheer size of the national debt began to sink in and the Housing Bubble began its inevitable crash. But that does not account for the worldwide markets meltdown that approached $40 trillion. Something else was at work: Obama.

Investors are a savvy lot and keep an eye out for positive and negative developments in the markets, as if their financial lives depended on it. Obama was widely perceived as a Marxist. Conservatives, including most investors, became alarmed as Obama rose in the polls. Democrats, Marxist professors, and journalists celebrated the coming of Obama, but these leftists do not have to make a living watching market developments. There is nothing that will kill an economy faster than a Marxist government at the wheel, and the closer Obama came to the presidency, the faster the markets fell. The rise of Obama was in lockstep with the fall of the United States economy.

Now everyone is perturbed by the continuing lack of jobs. The converse observation of “Obama’s rise equals loss of growth and jobs” is that “Obama’s departure will equal gains in growth and jobs”. If we can survive that long.

The world is not nearly as complicated as leftists would have you believe.
#33 February 10, 2011 at 6:16 am
southernsue commented:

simply stop electing people that have never held a public job or run a business. stop with electing lawyers and community organizers.
#34 February 10, 2011 at 9:28 am
burt commented:

Franklin Roosevelt didn’t know how to creat jobs either. Twelve years of disaster.