The Republicans don't talk about wealthy people anymore. They

[Raven]

talk about "Job Creators." The Democrats shouldn't talk about the wealthy either or Republicans for that matter. They should call both groups "Job Killers." The focus for the next 18 months should be on Jobs and Job Killers.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "job exporters" (R) also tells the tale truely, but...

lacks a certain requisite rhetorical zing...

[Shandris]

2. Ehhh...I dunno Raven.

Once the electorate is over this most recent capitulation...I mean 'crisis'...(which will be all of what, 4 days?), they'll go right back to sound-bite logic. It's hard to argue against "No poor person ever gave you a job did they?" with soundbite logic, so all the Thugs need to do is smirk and make a quippy one-liner if we use "Job Killers". I can even do it FOR them. "Job Killers? It seems our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are unaware of which class hires people. You ever had a poor person give you a good job?"

No, that's a losing proposition imo. We need something just as succinct, but not as easily mocked.

[Raven]

6. "I have never gotten a job from a poor person but I've been

hired a number of times by people in the middle class." That's the answer.

[Shandris]

9. That's a pretty good one, and it has the bonus of being true.

UNTIL you realize that a LOT of people consider 'middle class', 'rich'. That business owner pulling down $200,000 isn't the one who the Republicans are fighting for, but in most people's minds he's still quite rich. They think 'middle class' they think of that 40,000 working-class family that populates inner suburbia, and they don't think they're hiring anyone other than the occasional Lawn Cutting Service.

At least, that's what my experience with Indiana folk would lead me to believe. Maybe you're seeing something different in your part of the country. I'm totally with getting our lingo straight, I just don't think that one's effective. It comes across as too easily mocked and perhaps a touch childish -- like any occasion where you simply switch terms ('rubber and glue').

Just my $0.02

[MatthewStLouis]

8. The thing to remember is: the Bush Tax Cuts still aren't creating jobs...

The job creators are: the wealthy corporate CEO's who get bonuses for bankrupting their companies and exporting jobs. These are the people the Republicans are protecting...

[baldguy]

3. "Job killing tax cuts"

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Banksters. As coined by Dennis Kucinich.

[KharmaTrain]

5. The Frank Luntz "Magic" At Work...

The rushpublicans love to play with language...create a talking point and talk it to death...very effectively. Yes..."job creators" have become the new euphansism for the rich and is hammered home daily. This congers up the vision that somehow it's not only the rich that create the jobs but also that the little people should be grateful for them. Ya see, the working class are only leeches...sponging off their wealth. It's a mantra the corporate media has embraced as they relate to being rich...and in their own conveluted way think they are also "job creators". It plays to one's arrogance and the right wing noise machine is very effective in getting their bumper sticker "ideology" out there. Democrats, on the other hand, try to sell concepts. Doesn't fit sound bites very well...

[pokerfan]

7. This chocolate cake is so moist and job creator

Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show,” on Monday night continued his banter on the national debt ceiling and the GOP’s new catch phrase regarding President Obama obsession with taxes. He creatively pointed out how the Republicans rationalized not working with the President, “They think he is crazy!” Why? The President’s idea to end the Bush tax cuts for “WEALTHY” Americans earning $200,000 + a year is what the GOP considers to be preposterous. While in the eyes of many this income bracket would be considered as “RICH” the GOP are refraining from using the “R-word”, instead they are being referred to as the “job creators.” “You can’t even use the word rich, you have to say ‘This chocolate cake is so moist and job creator,” Stewart joked.

[Blue Meany]

10. "Job Cremators" is what Dems should call them:

as in "No tax breaks for job cremators..."

[Qutzupalotl]

11. Ten years of subsidies for these so-called "job creators" and where are we?

Much worse off than before. Lackluster private sector growth (a net negative during the Bush years), and trillions deeper in debt. Thanks, Debtpublicans!

[Sheepshank]

12. as if every wealthy person was a job creator....

...they are not even good at lying