Congressional caucus leaders want actual jobs for actual unemployed people, not tax breaks for corporations.
1) “Being bold” and saying that “jobs need to be created” is easy. The hard part is actually getting the jobs created. Why do we never see actual A+B=jobs style solutions for job creation? I feel like everyone should get off Obama’s back about not being some sort of job-inspiring magic man and find someone else to go after for not creating jobs—but who?
2) Why does no one ever point the finger at corporations?
a. They’ve caused all of the worlds problems that aren’t religion-related. The number one polluter isn’t houses with incandescent bulbs owned by people who don’t recycle, it’s giant factories and cars with 100 year-old tech made by corporations.
b. They’ve been dodging taxes for decades using offshore tricks and keeping money from the USG and the American people. No wonder our infrastructure is a joke, our government was so incompetent it let 911 happen, left New Orleans to drown and our economy pretty much to die—the USG can’t afford to pay smart people to build roads, repair bridges and evacuate people when huge storms hit.
c. Illegal immigrants often come here for jobs that corporations are willing to hire them for. Why? Because immigrants will work for less than minimum wage. ANY company who hires illegal immigrants isn’t willing to pay an American (or any human) what they are worth. Why do corporations get away with this? And why, for decades, have we been told that the Mexicans are here to steal our jobs and not that the greedy corporations refuse to pay us what we’re worth? Isn’t that the true dynamic at work?
d. They’ve been shipping jobs overseas for decades, too. What’s the best way to rob an economy of its money? Pay workers outside of said economy. I buy a DVD here in NYC and some worker in another country gets paid. He then buys things in HIS community and pays taxes that benefit HIS community and we never see the money again. How is this corporation pro-American when they’re helping some other country’s economy??
Abusive corporations are the real problem here. If anyone wants to see “bold” action from Obama, they shouldn’t be demanding anything short of a barrage of insults aimed squarely at corporations. Obama needs to make it socially unacceptable for corporations to continue to put their own survival above our ability to feed ourselves.
These cowardly, greedy, selfish, literally super-human entities have the power to create immense good in the world and yet all they can do is hold their wallets with a death-grip, desperately, as though one lost dollar would mean their utter and complete ruin.
Obama needs to come out critical of corporations and make them look bad by calling them on all they have done to harm the American people and humanity at large.
Just my ¥2, which is about all I’ve got in the bank right now. O_O
