Boehner: If Jobs Are Lost As A Result Of GOP Spending Cuts 'So Be It'

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Boehner: If Jobs Are Lost As A Result Of GOP Spending Cuts 'So Be It'

Brian Beutler

If House Republicans succeed in cutting tens of billions of dollars in discretionary spending over the next six months, some of the most immediate victims will be federal employees, many of whose jobs will be slashed as their agencies pare back.

At a press conference in the lobby of RNC headquarters Tuesday morning, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) shrugged this off as collateral damage.

"In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs," Boehner said. "If some of those jobs are lost so be it. We're broke."

Some of those employees will no doubt collect unemployment insurance, so the government's obligation to them won't disappear with their jobs.

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[liberal N proud]

1. In other words all those promises the GOP used to get elected

Like more jobs was as usual a big fucking GOP lie.


Now get ready to get screwed big time!

[rfranklin]

2. Is that number even true?

If it came out of boehner's mouth it is probably a falsehood.

[hedgehog]

3. "Boehner's Ohio Could Benefit from Earmark Amid Deep Spending Cuts"

I was taken aback on Saturday when I learned that a package of deep cuts by House Republicans in hundreds of critically important federal programs included a $450 million increase for a Defense Department project that is opposed by the Pentagon. As a column I published yesterday demonstrates, the project would have an extraordinarily large impact on the economy of two neighboring cities in Ohio; Cincinnati and Dayton. It so happens the new Republican Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner was born and grew up in Cincinnati and now represents a Western Ohio Congressional District in which Dayton is the largest City.

The project involves the Pentagon’s procurement of jet engines for various versions of the new F-35 fighter. The problem that General Electric Aviation, the company that wants to sell the engine, and the political and business leaders in Ohio who want the jobs created by the engine sales face, is that they don’t have an engine. As a result they want the federal government to pay them to develop an engine. Meanwhile buried in the details of the explanatory sheets accompanying this legislation is a $225 million earmark in the Navy budget and another $225 million earmark in the Air Force budget that would make those two services write the checks.

One reason the Pentagon is upset by this is that they already have a perfectly good engine and they believe the cost of helping GE and its partner, British owned Rolls Royce Group, come up with an alternative would eventually be more than $2 billion—money they argue they would never get back as the result of having two producers rather than one.

How does this square with the speaker’s repeated proclamations that we must cut spending and we must eliminate earmarks? The $450 billion this provision would send to facilities in Dayton and elsewhere would do a lot to the harshness of the cuts proposed in other parts of this same legislation—cuts like the support of local law enforcement or reductions in food safety inspections that affect every single community in America.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Blogs/Capital-Exchange/2011/02/14/Capital-Exchange-Ohio-Could-Benefit-from-Earmark-Amid-Deep-Spending-Cuts.aspx

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Wonder how those who voted for the repukes will feel while waiting on the unemployment line?

or will they refuse to take it based on their principles of smaller government??

[KansDem]

5. Meanwhile, defense contractors rip off the Pentagon to the tune of $285 billion.

Hey, Boehner! Go and get back the money before you start this nonsense!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/02/sanders-pentagon-billions-fraudsters/

[gateley]

6. Oooh, get tough, Boehner - at the expense of the little people. Prick. nt

[Nancy Waterman]

7. Do these morons not see the connection

between unemployment and lower revenue for the government and therefore a bigger deficit? Not to mention the suffering of the population. How can they be so universally stupid? The have one or two ideas that never bend with increased
information or a changing reality.

[rasputin1952]

8. Well...I guess the GOP Jobs Plan really sucks!

What kind of a plan is it to lose jobs...any jobs?

These delusional bastards just signed the death warrant for the GOP, which is fine by me.

Boehner couldn't lead a HS marching band onto the sidelines at a HS football game...and he's trying to "lead" the HoR...what a jerk!

[Clio the Leo]

9. they can all go out and start their own businesses!!!!

.... selling .... I dunno, Regan memorabilia or something? :shrug:

[Kdillard]

10. Heck of a job Boehner is doing.

[livetohike]

11. We're still waiting for your job plan Boehner

Wonder when all those GOP young guns are going to actually come up with some ideas.

[Kdillard]

12. Never. They had no ideas to begin with except for attacking the President and

Dems.

[livetohike]

13. They are pathetic aren't they? Looks like the future for the GOP

is not looking good at all :-).

[tanyev]

14. No biggie. Boehner will still get his paycheck.