'Just not many' jobs in Speaker Boehner's jobs plan
‘Just not many' jobs in the GOP jobs plan
Those who actually read the list of the "more than 40 jobs bills" notice that several of the measures aren't related to job creation at all. What's more, Jackie Calmes this week sought out economists, including plenty of conservative economists, for their impressions of the Republicans' agenda.…Matthew J. Slaughter, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, said after reviewing nearly four dozen measures that House Republicans have labeled "jobs bills." "But," added Mr. Slaughter, who served on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, "it just struck me as sort of a compendium of modest expectations. If you ask me, ‘What's your ballpark guess for how many jobs are going to be created?,' it's just not many." […]…While private sector analysts say that the varied Boehner list is not suitable to their computer models, Joel Prakken, a founder of the St. Louis-based Macroeconomic Advisers, said, "I don't think you would get a rush of hiring from passing these bills."
As the New Republic reported: "Republicans have known all along that their jobs plan wouldn't work that well…House Republicans still don't have an economic agenda to fix the economy's ills." [10/23].
Instead, the GOP Party of dysfunction, distraction and obstruction shut down the government for 16 days at a cost of $24 billion to our economy and 120,000 jobs; caused the downgrading of America's credit rating; failed to pass bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform which would've reduced the nation's deficit by nearly $1 trillion; defended discrimination at an irresponsible cost of $2.3 million; and denied 85,000 jobs after failing to raise the minimum wage.