Boehner on weak jobs report: 'It's time to get serious about cutting spending

[ProSense]

Boehner on weak jobs report: 'It's time to get serious about cutting spending

by Jed Lewison

In the wake of today's weak jobs numbers, House Republicans are on the attack:

House Republicans pinned the blame for Friday’s disappointing jobs report squarely on the White House, saying the Obama administration’s “over-taxing, over-regulating and over-spending” has stifled economic growth.

“One look at the jobs report should be enough to show the White House its time to get serious about cutting spending and dealing with our ailing economy,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said.

The weak jobs report is proof that now is the time to get serious about cutting spending? Uh, didn't we just cut spending, at least according to John Boehner? And isn't this—anemic job growth—the first tangible result?

Remember, in April, John Boehner agreed to a funding bill that he said represented "an historic amount of cuts" in order to "create a better environment for job creators in our country."

Then, the very next month after passing Boehner's spending cut plan, job creation dropped from 232,000 to 54,000, its lowest level in nearly a year.

And he thinks that is evidence we need even more spending cuts? Is he crazy?

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Makes perfect sense

[Peacetrain]

2. You just cannot make that stuff up.. `sigh`

[Gregorian]

3. But not so serious that we touch the beloved military budget.

In other words, empty rhetoric.

[Pirate Smile]

4. So f#$king bizarre...and the President is supposed to somehow work with them to get something passed

that would stimulate the economy? My head hurts.

[LonePirate]

5. We should spend the * tax cuts on hiring people to build storm shelters across the country

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. IT'S OBAMA'S FAULT!!!!!!!! n/t

[Harmony Blue]

7. The White House should go on an all out blitz

with multiple job plans to make Boehner look bad.

[RC]

8. This Administration is Under taxing, under regulating and spending in all the wrong places.

No one in a real position to do so is doing anything about getting more Living Wage Jobs here. That is the root problem.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. How the hell does "cutting spending" create jobs (let alone help people whom don't have ones yet)?

Perhaps Boehner, Cantor, et. al have 150 "economists" sitting around somewhere that they can pull out to explain that for the rest of us liberal dumbasses? What's their %*$%*&#!! plan (wait, wait, don't tell me.......:eyes:)?

:wtf:

I have almost no tolerance for this BS anymore! People are suffering and these jackals are sitting around playing games.

[Wait Wut]

10. ...and then he went back in his office...

...and poured himself another drink. It makes the lies so much easier to forget.

[Blaukraut]

11. He sounds like a parrot that only memorized one line

"Cut spending...Cut spending...bwaaak"

[blueclown]

12. The fact that he thinks that spending has caused this economic crisis is mindboggling.

The federal government needs to spend more, but in a more directed manner. Less to feed the military industrial complex and more to create jobs programs and employ more local, state and federal workers.

[MadMaddie]

13. Yes he is crazy!

The more insanity he spews the more Moderates leave the Republian party. He is only talking to the Teabaggers at this point.

He controls the budget and it's been a disaster.

[flpoljunkie]

14. Steve Benen's right. The GOP has a plan to make matters much worse.

June 03, 2011

The wake-up call
By Steve Benen

As Republicans dominate the agenda, and Congress tackles abortion bills and austerity measures, the economy is faltering badly.

Indeed, we’re already seeing the results of austerity — state and local governments are being forces to cut spending, and as a result, tens of thousands of public-sector workers are being forced from their jobs. This, in a nutshell, is the agenda Republicans are desperate to bring to the federal level.

In other words, the GOP has a plan to make matters much worse.

As awful as this morning’s jobs report was, it should, in theory, have one important upside: policymakers who were content to ignore job creation and focus on the deficit just got a startling reminder that those priorities are backwards. The stimulus made the jobs landscape better, and now that the Recovery Act has largely run its course, the job market is deteriorating.

The dominant theory on Capitol Hill is that everything will get magically better just as soon as we take money out of the economy, scrap public investments, focus on inflation that doesn’t exist, and prioritize the debt over the economy.

It didn’t work for Hoover, but congressional Republicans are slow learners.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_06/the_wakeup_call030000.php

[Maraya1969]

15. Repulbican answer to unemployment. Fire people to save money.

They cut money from education and what happens? They FIRE TEACHERS. They cut money from health care and what happens? They FIRE HEALTH CARE WORKERS. They cut money from police and the fire department and and general public workers and what happens? They FIRE PEOPLE!

And now his answer to unemployment is to fire people.

[OhioBlue]

16. exactly! They're such morons! n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

17. I would say there has not been enough time for the

recently passed spending cuts to have an affect on the jobs number. Oil prices have more likely finally had their affect.

[and-justice-for-all]

18. That is his logic to creating jobs? CUT SPENDING???!!!

what a fucking worthless bag of shit and a total fucking moron! They need to get the hell out of the middle east and tax the fucking rich. Then, they need to pump money into infrastructure jobs, high speed rail and national health care.

[Philippine expat]

19. I agree

lets start with his salary and perks, then the salary and perks of every member of Congress
Then some deep cuts to DoD