Well, it seems that our stellar Senate Majority Leader, "Dingy" Harry Reid has made his stance on jobs quite clear, saying on Wednesday that the priority for Congress when it comes to "creating" jobs has to be one where the focus in placed primarily on creating government jobs and not worrying so much about working to create private-sector jobs. He stated that this is reason behind why Senate Democrats are now pushing a bill aimed at shoring up teachers and first-responders. "It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about." Believe it or not, that's what old "Dingy" said right from the floor of the Senate. So it's very clear that private-sector jobs are doing just fine? Clear to whom, exactly? And it's the creating of unionized public sectors jobs that's now where the most effort needs to be expended.
Apparently, in offering up this unique and rather bizarre perspective on things, old "Dingy" was in fact responding to recent comments made by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has accused the Democrats of purposefully pursuing higher taxes as part of the teacher/first-responder bill, S. 1723, to increase the likelihood that Republicans would oppose it. So what "Dingy" is actually doing here is to essentially play politics with the lives of millions of Americans who remain out of work. McConnell said the bill was meant to fail for no other reason that to provide to Democrats an issue on which they can run in the 2012 election. But good old "Dingy," in feigned shock and disbelief, claimed that nothing could be further from the truth , claiming instead that the Republicans are simply trying to defeat Barry "Almighty" any way they can.
"Dingy" once again reiterated the rationale behind his emphasis on the creating of additional government jobs (union jobs), by saying Democrats remain committed to "put hundreds of thousands of people back to work teaching children, have more police patrolling our streets, firefighters fighting our fires, doing the rescue work that they do so well … that's our priority." Ah yes, it's all about the children and public safety. BUNK! He the went on to focused on the Republicans who he says are referring to the bill as a "failure" because they are "using a different benchmark for success than we are." "Dingy" repeated his idiotic claim that private-sector jobs have increased over the last 19 months, while its been "unionized" government jobs that have lagged, and have suffered cuts in several states that are struggling to balance their books. But to say that private sector jobs have increased? Where exactly?
Despite these never-ending idiotic comments, a spokesman for old "Dingy," sounding the same recurring obstructionist theme, continued to claim that attempts made by Democrats to pass several bills aimed at spurring private sector job growth have repeatedly been blocked by Republicans in Congress. "Senator Reid believes that Congress must work to spur job-creation in the private sector, which is why he's working to pass tax cuts for small businesses to hire new workers, tax cuts for small businesses to write off business expenses, and investments to create private-sector construction jobs," so said spokesmoron Adam Jentleson said. Sounding like the proverbial broken record, this moron droned on saying, "Republicans are blocking all of these proposals to create jobs in the private sector because they care more about defeating President Obama than putting Americans back to work."
Reid claimed that a majority of those people polled actually support the bill, as well as the tax hike needed to fund the $35 billion spending program is "minimal." But I think if you were to ask those same people if they knew the specifics of the bill, the majority wouldn't have a clue. Still "Dingy" said, "My friend, the Republican leader … is complaining about a tax of one-half of 1 percent … on people who make more than $1 million a year to pay for a program that would stop teachers from being laid off and rehire some of the teachers that have been laid off." Democrats who support the bill have made the unsubstantiated claim it would, theoretically, help "save" 400,000 teacher jobs and thousands of first-responder jobs that have either been cut or could soon be cut. And again resorting to the blame Bush mantra, "Dingy" said Wednesday that these layoffs are "rooted in the last administration," but did not explain further.
Senate Democrats are hoping to pass S. 1723 as early as this week, although votes could be delayed until early November, depending on the progress made on passing a 2012 spending bill. And acting ever the obstructionist himself, old "Dingy" also dismissed efforts by the Republican House to ease environmental regulations as a way to create jobs. "The Republican response has been cutting back environmental health safeguards, I guess hoping that a sicker, more polluted country is a better place to create jobs, and it's not," "Dingy" said. You know, the fact that "Dingy," like Barry "Almighty," would think that anybody but demented Democrats would buy into the nonsense that Republicans want a "more polluted" country show just how far removed from reality they are. People are beginning to see through this crap. The question that remains to be answered, though, is will enough of them see through it by election time.
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