The GOP Doesn’t Want to Create Jobs, and Here’s Why

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http://www.forwardprogressives.com/the-gop-doesnt-want-to-create-jobs-and-heres-why/

Somehow, even though the stock market and corporate coffers are at record highs, they actually want us to believe that only by further cutting taxes and regulations will we ever see that mythical “trickle-down” flow of money from the rich. If the con of “trickle-down” economics was actually true, we’d be drowning in jobs right now, but we’re not. If you’re a member of the 1%, the economy is working great for you right now. If you own a lot of investments and have places offshore to squirrel your money away from the reaches of the IRS, you’re far better off than us, the 99%.

Let’s face it, they don’t want to create an economy where there are jobs for every qualified applicant. For the people they actually represent, the current situation is ideal. They’re paying low taxes, getting government handouts and forcing their employees to work harder for less. They have absolutely zero incentive to create American jobs unless demand for a product or service becomes so high they have no other choice than to hire more people.

They also have an interest in keeping unemployment at a level that forces people to take jobs they may not want, and for less pay than they would get in a job market like we had before the recession in 2007. When you look at it, every proposal from the current do-nothing Congress (and the one before it) has done nothing to put people back to work, instead focusing on fattening the pockets of their corporate sponsors and masters.

On top of that, you know those politicians who are screaming about “socialism” and how Obama is killing the economy? Their corporate contributors have been enjoying record profits since the President saved Detroit and prevented the recession from becoming a depression. They’ve received bailouts, tax breaks and subsidies all while hoarding money and refusing to create new jobs unless they absolutely have to. If that isn’t economic treason, I’m not sure what is.

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1. It also boils down to

power and control, simply put.

The "market" is an "employers" market where people are more desperate and have less flexibility and choice. Thus, you can be cajoled or even forced into being "more productive" or even into doing ridiculous, unessential things and more tolerant of any real abuse that is forced on you similar to being a slave rather than an employee with choice and dignity.

At the rate we have been going, about 10-12% of us are literally, economically unnecessary, as in, disposable and inconsequential to this current system. That is why poverty and homelessness is not considered a serious crises as it increases.

The system is broken and most of you who endure poor treatment and low wages that are not justifiable in a poor country, let alone the wealthiest are in an abusive relationship that perpetrators have built and would like to expand and preserve.

That changes the nature of the game from our side of the board if anyone wants to consider the ramifications of this going on unchecked and in relation to the political and economic Status Quo today.