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

[DearAbby]

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.


More: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/boehner-if-jobs-are-lost-as-a-result-of-gop-spending-cuts-so-be-it.php

[liberal N proud]

1. His job should be the first to go

[glinda]

2. Easily said when you represent outsourcing and all the tax-breaks for the wealthy.

[bullwinkle428]

3. If the DNC isn't already writing campaign commercials for 2012, shame on them.

[Blue Owl]

4. Now watch this drive

n/t

[Urban Prairie]

5. Boehner: SOTHITH- Speaker of the Hypocrites in the House n/t

[DearAbby]

6. !

:thumbsup:

[walldude]

7. What happened to the "Job Killing Health Care Bill"?

They seem to be against losing jobs when it suits them..

[DearAbby]

8. All last year it was "WHERE ARE THOSE JOBS"

This year it's "Meh, So be it"

[LibertyLover]

9. But I remember that when Boehner and the Republicans were

elected back in November, they said that they would be creating jobs. I guess they just didn't mention that those jobs would be in countries other than the US.

[City Lights]

10. Jobs? We don't need no stinkin' jobs.

Jobs are so last Congress. You know, when the Democrats controlled the House.

[DearAbby]

11. Kick