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The real question is jobs created by the government or by private industry?
Government jobs may help in the short term but real economic growth comes from the private sector.
Government creates dependency not jobs.
All I can say to Leo is of course he’s right, but good luck. He says “Support start-ups, support entrepreneurs..” and Calacanis says “That’s why I invest in them.” Well the left sees the start ups and those that invest in them as the problem.
They call it “Corporate Greed”, “Fat Cat giveaways” etc. They want to as Hillary puts it “…tax everything that moves…” and as Obama puts it “…spread the wealth around a little…”
That means take investment from those that are the most productive in a society, take their bureaucratic cut, and give it to those that are the least productive in a society.
While what the Left says sounds compassionate, it never ever works to create jobs, not ever, not even just a little. That’s why the Left is destined to fail, what they want to do never works. Look at California, look at how long California has been completely dominated (politically) by the left. They simply don’t do “Jobs, jobs, jobs.” Sorry Leo.
Obama is still stuck in first gear blaming the Bush administration for every failure he’s had so far.
That may work the first day or so on the job, but that excuse is getting worn out.
I think Leo is coming around! He’s disappointed in how his Obama-Kool-aid is tasting…..
I’m beginning to think there is a fundamental flaw in the system. Cracks are appearing in the foundation under stress. Congress has become useless, even party loyalty means nothing. The foundation will crumble. Jefferson and Adams would have called on the people to revolt again, take back control. I use to say throw the bums out, but there seems to be an endless line of bums to fill the slot.
Good, but he missed off “…lets vote for jobs!!”
I just wish these things had a longer lifetime. It seems like only yesterday I was out in the street, stamping my feet and chanting “No Obama death panels! No Obama death panels!”
Good times, good times.
Go Leo go! Spot on!
Hand jobs, rim jobs, blow jobs…
Jobs, jobs, jobs…
Want to support entrepreneurship? Eliminate the bullshit taxes and regulations (i.e: sarbox) and get the hell out of the way.
What’s with this “we should do this” and “we should do that” crap? We’ll all put our money wherever it can make money, no mandate required.
Obama is chanting jobs, jobs, jobs, too. Rather catchy.
I am sure he was talking about Steve Jobs as that is all he ever talks about anymore
Why, haven’t we seen this all before?
Were we not warned??
(Watch the liberal nuts go crazy over this…)
Less government interference = more jobs. Simple.
Isn’t supporting start-ups, entrepreneurs a form of stimulus? If Entrepreneurs have a great idea, innovation, don’t you think the venture capitalists like Calacanis wouldn’t invest on them? They do and then they send the work to India, China or other countries rather than hire Americans. Can you imagine if the iphone, Mac, HP, even Dell PC’s where fully manufactured in the US how many jobs would that be? but then the profits would not be as high. The unfortunate thing is that America will have to learn how to live with a lot less income, less jobs, much like Europe, except with a lot less social programs as a safety net. I am sad to see this great Country go down the drain with so much hatred and bitterness from all political sides.
Correct of course, but it won’t do any good to support start-ups if all they’re going to do once they’re started is outsource the business overseas! We need “fair” trade laws.
for some of you..
the JOBS question isnt WHO is making them, its forcing corps to PAY for them..
If they wish to ship JOBS over seas, TAX them more. AS those with out jobs need something, and the Gov is going to give it to them, if the corps arent.
The gov could get allot of things done, if the corps arent willing to CUT top wages to PAY lower level personnel.
If the corp does well with the personnel, in hiring and paying benefits, FINE.
You cut corners and make better profits, then you get TAXED, as those you CUT need benefits so they can find NEW jobs.
With all these People out of the market, the GOV could actually USE many of them.
Get REAL programmers to FIX things..
FIX the roads and Bridges, 60% of the bridges in the USA need repair(there are lots of bridges)..
GRAB a few smart people to WORK for the gov and figure things out. PUT them to work..
NOT high paying jobs ACCORDING to the corps, just a living wage.
WHICH means that if the CORP cant pay for him, THE CORP WILL PAY FOR HIM..thru taxes.
#12,
How do you invest your money where ever you want in the companies that you invest in are not required to be honest in their earnings reports?
#15–Ah Yea==Joe the Plumber????? Do you support Palin as well?
Its one thing to be “conservative” as well all should be regarding all things “financial” but Joe the Plumber is so faulty in so many ways.
You are goofing on us right?
Jobs = a function of the world economy. USA == OF NECESSITY == must decline in prosperity as the worlds prosperity gets “equaled out” among the new one billion Chinese Market, the new one billion India Market, and so forth.
World economy is not a zero sum game==but it is not infinitely expandable either.
OUR government should “fight for” jobs rather than fling them overseas. When easy to fix things are left broken ((Mexican truckers in the USA for instance – or troops on foreign soil)), our future will be more bleak than it of necessity would have been.
NP had one thing right. It’s jobs, jobs, jobs. The only problem is she’s better at putting people out of business than creating jobs. Her idea of creating jobs is hiring everybody to work for the government.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about jobs. It’s really pretty easy to get a job, if you just take the time to fill out this form.
God will send you a job directly through the interwebitubes (it comes as an email attachment), and then you can quickly get back to things that really matter, like praying for deliverance from the liberal agenda.
I’d rather hear about jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs, than, say… Ford Sync.
#21 bobbo:
“World economy is not a zero sum game==but it is not infinitely expandable either.”
It’s probably effectively infinite.
As in, creation of wealth would chug along until the earth is dismantled for raw material, atom by atom.
Bobbo:
I am having a little fun!
#25–brm==no, not even then. You see, the earth’s population is not made up of “economic units” but rather it is made up of PEOPLE. You know people. Religious, tribal, superstitious, organized into governments, etc. We’d need a supercomputer to model it of course but I doubt even if all the variables could be adequately identified, modeled, weighted etc that the world market could be shown to act in an ever increasing net worth to all, not even atom by atom. But lets talk again after everyone in five years does admit peak oil was reached next year? ((Ok–make it 10 or 15 years or gas at $20/gal even though yes, atoms of oil exist locked up in permashale.))
#26–Ah Yea==thank you—but you still scare me.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
He says “Support start-ups, support entrepreneurs..” and Calacanis says “That’s why I invest in them.” Well the left sees the start ups and those that invest in them as the problem.
They call it “Corporate Greed”, “Fat Cat giveaways” etc.
ummm… what?
Supporting startups is pretty much the opposite of “corporate greed” and “fat cat giveaways.” When someone says “startups” I think of the little guy who wants to start his or her own company not the companies that have been unregulated and merged so much that they are “too big to fail.” Giving companies that give their executives multimillion dollar bonuses is what I call “corporate greed” and “fat cat giveaways” not supporting someone who wants to start a company.
Calacanis has a bunker now?
I want a bunker too!