"So be it."
That was House Speaker John Boehner's cold answer when asked Tuesday about job losses that would come from his new Republican majority's plans to cut tens of billions of dollars in government spending this year.
"Do you have any sort of estimate on how many jobs will be lost through this?" Pacifica Radio's Leigh Ann Caldwell inquired at a news conference just before the House began its debate on the cuts.
Boehner stood firm in his polished tassel loafers. "Since President Obama has taken office the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs, and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it," he said.
"Do you have any estimate of how many will?" Caldwell pressed. "And won't that negatively impact the economy?"
"I do not," Boehner replied, moving to the next questioner.
Well, Mr. Speaker, I do. I checked with budget expert Scott Lilly of the Center for American Progress, and, using the usual multipliers, he calculated that the cuts - a net of $59 billion in the last half of fiscal 2011 - would lead to the loss of 650,000 government jobs, and the indirect loss of 325,000 more jobs as fewer government workers travel and buy things. That's nearly 1 million jobs - possibly enough to tip the economy back into recession.
So be it?
Of course, that didn't stop Orange Julius's own party from stabbing him in the back today as they shot down the F-35 jet's second engine project (which would of course been built partially by GE in Boehner's backyard of Dayton and nearby Evendale.)
He's against government jobs, willing to put one million Americans out of work this year and then blame Obama for it, but he sure as hell tried to save his own orange ass with government money, eh? Even his own party wasn't going to buy that and they left him hanging out to dry as the vote failed.
So if the jobs are in Boehner's district, he cares. The other 434 congressional districts can rot. These crazy Republicans are going to literally wreck the economy and cost the country a million jobs just to try to win in 2012, and they think you're stupid enough to fall for it.
Nice guys, huh?
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ReplyDeleteWell, Mr. Speaker, I do. I checked with budget expert Scott Lilly of the Center for American Progress,...
So you and this "journalist" used the numbers from a partisan Democrat and avowed Communist, a professional liar, to determine Boehner wants to cut a million jobs? And we're supposed to believe it?
These crazy Republicans are going to literally wreck the economy and cost the country a million jobs just to try to win in 2012, and they think you're stupid enough to fall for it.
Democrats wrecked an already bad economy, did nothing to fix it, and the American people were smart enough to get many of them out of office. They sure as hell aren't going to believe the bullshit from some leftist clown at CAP.
The Center for American Progress? You mean the Democrat talking points factory where you get half your articles from?
ReplyDeleteYou know it's funny, I thought the Obama stimulus ended the recession in June 2009 and the strong economic recovery means that it should be strong enough to handle these necessary cuts.
So does this mean your are admitting the Obama stimulus failed, Zandar?
Actually, Steviekins, Lilly was only paid to lie about being a Communist. BA-ZING!
ReplyDeleteStill waiting for Zandar's response.
ReplyDeleteClinton and Gore killed millions of jobs with NAFTA. You must really despise the man.
Boehner? there is a federal employee who is nothing more than dead weight to this nation...
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