The recent tea party mandate that their members sign a pledge to abstain from hiring new employees to protest President Obama’s attempt to create jobs and raise taxes on the wealthiest 2% of Americans is, although despicable, the latest overt representation of government subversion and continued torture of the American people the Republican Party has perpetrated quietly since Ronald Reagan was president. The Tea Party Nation sent out a rambling, anti-American letter to approximately 30,000 members that ended with the pledge: “I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped. I hereby declare that my job creation potential is now ceased.” If the American people had any reservations that the teabaggers and their masters in the Republican Party were deliberately sabotaging the economy for political reasons, this letter should quell any misgivings that America is perilously close to falling to corporate greed at the hands of conservatives and religious fundamentalists.
There are a lot of TEA Party organizations out there.
But who need private corporations right? Those evildoers, we can just hire our way out of this recession by buying more teachers and cops like Joe Biden wants.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Do the liberals and people like LJ think they also have a right to tell individuals and companies what they must do with their own money- after they payed taxes on it?
I know liberals think that the money that individuals and companies earn belongs to the government first- that's just how arrogant they are.
You can't force individuals to spend money and you can't force a company to hire more people if they don't want to do so. A good majority of corporations do not see where investing in more staff or expanding their business will pay off right now. It is their right to manage their business the way they see fit.
Likewise - an individual like me also has the right to spend my money where and when I see fit- and I also choose not to invest in this economy. It is my right to say where and when I save, spend and invest my hard earned money.
If I choose- or anyone chooses not to participate in economic activity- that is our right. No trash talking socialist or knuckelhead in the white house even matters- except we all have to listen to the whiny complaints.
Obama and the Democrats have had years of warnings and plenty of notice that their regulative and socialist agenda would lead to reduced economic activity- and they ignored these warnings and choose to be the anti-business government that they are.
Now you all want to cry about it- the Democrats and Obama have created this mess. Don't complain that businesses are sitting on trillions in cash- that is their right to do so. When there is a more business friendly climate- they will invest again.
Well, good... Then if the teabaggers and their kool-aid drinking followers want to admit that they're doing everything they can to keep any jobs from being filled, we can dispense with the charade that "Obama isn't creating any jobs."
