These republican weasels would desperately like to be able to confirm this leftwing obama drone with as little fanfare as possible and move on to passing appropriation bills to fund useless defense spending. They had made a big show of saying she could not defend Obama's illegal amnesty. All she had to do was dance around it and throw out some legal mumbo jumbo and that she would study it. blabh blah. Instead she goes beyond even Obama's position and says that illegals have the "right" to work here, which is in clear violation of federal law. Now these spineless assholes really have to make a choice. They can forfeit all credibility with their base or they can actually take a stand. Not holding my breath.
you got to be a goddamned lawyer to keep up with this President. Everytime he opens his mouth it ends up in the Supreme Court. So let's take it to the Supreme Court and ask them, "Do illegal aliens have the right to work in the United States?" If they say yes she gets the job. And I really don't care how long it takes them to decide.
and exactly how does this "jobs program" work? The government just makes jobs for people? And who pays these people with new jobs? I suppose we could tell them we won't hit you as hard if you hire, or as it's commonly called a "Tax Break". So now I've heard it all. The liberals want tax breaks?
According to US Army Corps of Engineers reports, there is a great deal of overdue infrastructure work to do across the whole country. The US government is currently borrowing longterm at negative real interest rates, i.e. people are essentially paying the government to hold their money. So the jobs are there, so is the money. Investing big in upgrading our infrastructure, particularly now, will create a big industry with I'd guess a decade of life in it, and boost a host of secondary, support industries. This kind of thing has been done before.
I'll spare you the Keystone XL reply, "But these jobs are just temporary!" Tell that to some laid off construction worker in his trailer driving his wife crazy every day. I agree on the borrowing money now at low low rates. Very little of our infrastructure is currently a federal responsibility. Mainly the interstate, and that is being worked on all across the country every day. We couldn't survive any more construction or nobody would ever be able to drive anywhere. sounds good, but they tried that in Spain, new roads, new bridges, new airport, and now nobody to drive on them because nobody has anywhere to go. But I will give you that one, I could support a massive public works project. And my idea? Show up by 17:00 and apply and walk out with a job starting tomorrow morning. You may have a graduate degree and all we have available is picking up trash on public property, but it's a job.
Printing money up out of thin air and using it to buy gov't bonds to hold down rates so the gov't has trillions of dollars of cheap money to spend on handouts and shovel ready projects has been tried for the last six years. It has not worked and that can be proved objectively. Interest rates are still zero. After six years. The economy never took off and reached 'escape velocity' after six years. It has been a massive failure. Of course the krugmanites will tell you that it was because it wasn't big enough. We need to do more. We need to go full Japan. Except it hasn't worked there either. How long will it take the world to discover that you can't print up prosperity?
if we lowered taxes to zero and eliminated all government regulations we would hit escape velocity. Then we would be sitting pretty and we could debate from a place of financial strength just how much we want to tax and regulate.
So we'd have a government about as intrusive in our lives as, say, the government of Democratic Republic of Congo (in the lives of that country's inhabitants).