delete

[kentuck]

another duplicate idea posted already. As usual, behind the times. :-)

[tridim]

1. Which Democrats are "buying into it"?

Seems to me the only people on earth who believe the BS are a few hundred Republican politicians and Fox News viewers.

[kentuck]

3. The ones that voted to extend the Bush taxcuts?

The ones that voted to cut FICA taxes? Etc.

[tridim]

5. We already know why they voted for the extension, and it's not because they "bought into it".

[kentuck]

6. Why?

Refresh our memory.

[tridim]

7. You know why.

GOP slash and burn, blackmail and ransom demands on the heads of the long-term unemployed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121606200.html

The $858 billion package prevents taxes from rising on New Year's Day for virtually every American household. The measure also will guarantee unemployed workers in hard-hit states up to 99 weeks of jobless benefits through the end of next year. And it will create major new incentives for business and consumer spending in 2011, including a two-percentage-point reduction in the Social Security payroll tax that would let workers keep as much as $2,136.

[spin]

4. If tax cuts for the rich actually worked we should have plenty of jobs ...

maybe we should tell the rich that if they don't create jobs, we will simply tax the hell out of them.

Unfortunately, the people we elect to represent us are owned by the rich and the big corporations.

[IndianaJoe]

2. Seems so. Capital spending in the U.S. creates jobs.

We don't have enough of it. And with the contemplated governmental spending cuts, we're unlikely to see any in the public sector. No stimulus. No growth. No jobs. The future looks great, doesn't it?