Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The American People Like the Jobs Bill...

...republicans, not so much!

















Here is an interesting figure I picked up over at Smartypants.  It shows you just how out of touch the Senate republicans are with the American people...at least the majority of them.

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8 comments:

  1. Tao Dao ManOctober 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM

    http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/19/347870/chart-huge-majorities-support-millionaires-surtax/

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  2. Tom HarperOctober 19, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    I hope enough voters will be smart enough to see the disconnect between what the public wants and what our corporate-owned "representatives" are doing.

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  3. S.W. AndersonOctober 20, 2011 at 12:33 PM

    That makes it painfully clear, all right. I just hope Republicans end up feeling the pain next year.

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  4. Tao Dao ManOctober 20, 2011 at 12:38 PM

    http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/sectors.php

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  5. Will "take no prisoners" HartOctober 21, 2011 at 8:45 PM

    Jerry, I generally support the jobs plan. The payroll tax cut extension will help with consumer demand and the infrastructure projects (at least according to Moody's) will further facilitate growth. I also like the fact that the threshold for the tax increase was lifted from $250,000 to a million. The only thing that would add to it (and maybe it's in there and I don't know about it) would be some sort of regulatory reform. Loosen up the red tape for new businesses trying to get started, etc..

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  6. Jerry CritterOctober 22, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    I hear talk about all "the red tape for new businesses trying to get started", but I never hear a discussion about just what this red tape is.

    When I started my business, all I was required to do was get a fictitious business name. Granted, I am a sole proprietorship, but I think things are pretty straight forward for small LLCs and corporations.

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  7. S.W. AndersonOctober 22, 2011 at 11:57 AM

    One of the assignments Bill Clinton gave Al Gore when they were president and vice president was to lead a project reducing the amount of paperwork required to get things done, within government and where the public interacts with government.

    When the project was completed, they held a press conference that was aired on C-SPAN. One of the things Gore showed was a three-inch-thick looseleaf notebook and a stack of papers about an inch and a half high. He explained that the notebook contained rules and regulations those seeking Small Business Administration loans had to wade through. The stack of papers were forms that those starting a business that way had to fill out.

    Gore then held up a stack of about a dozen sheets of paper in one hand, and three sheets in the other, explaining that after a lot of editing, streamlining and discarding, these were now all that's necessary to accomplish the same business start-up.

    There is and always will be some red tape. Without it, you'd have people getting $100,000 "loans" for their kid's lemonade stand. But serious and successful efforts have been made — by Democrats — to reduce the burden.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 25, 2011 at 3:28 AM

    if the public wants all this, how do you explain their Republican voting record for the last 30 years, that has policies exactly opposite of what your polls say?

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