House Republicans Blatantly Lie To America By Claiming They’ve Passed Dozens of Jobs Bills

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House Republicans Blatantly Lie To America By Claiming They’ve Passed Dozens of Jobs Bills

By: Justin Baragona at Politicus USA

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/01/18/house-republicans-blatantly-lie-america-claiming-passed-dozens-jobs-bills.html

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On Saturday morning, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) was chosen by the Republicans to make their weekly address. As the GOP has been struggling with a serious image problem lately due to their refusal to pass an extension of unemployment benefits for those who have been out of work for a long time, the party knew it needed to try to redirect the conversation. In his address, Stutzman urged President Obama to ask the Senate to pass all of the House -approved ‘jobs bills,’ as they would bring millions of jobs to the American people.

The thing is, there are no jobs bills waiting for approval by the Senate. The new tactic by House Republicans is to call every single bill that they pass a ‘jobs bill.’ An anti-abortion bill? Yep, jobs bill. Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that will put billions of dollars in the pockets of the Koch brothers? Yep, jobs bill. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has actually put together a list of bills that have passed the House that he feels are ‘jobs bills.’ There is just one little problem. They aren’t going to create any new jobs!

In Boehner’s mind, repealing Obamacare, slashing regulations, gutting social programs and eliminating federal agencies is somehow going to create more jobs. One bill that Stutzman pointed to in his address, the SKILLS Act, is something the Boehner and Republicans have hyped up as important to job creation. However, the likelihood is that it would actually create a net negative in jobs. While the GOP can tout it as important to helping people train for new jobs, what it really does is eliminates many existing federal programs, putting government employees out of work.





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[dembotoz]

1. i saw that too--we need to call them on that

[JaneyVee]

2. That's kinda their 'thing', and their base is too stupid to realize it.

[atreides1]

3. I loked at those "jobs bills"

The majority are attempts to bring about massive deregulation...so we can have more episodes like they did in West Virginia.

[Festivito]

4. Passed them around, passed them up, passed them over, not passed onto the Senate.

Except ones that would not create new jobs.

Repealing health care for example. All that extra money we were all paying that went into the health care denial industry. Those jobs are dying. For the sake of the people of this nation I hope they never come back.

[Cha]

5. Of course he did.. sick teapublicon assholes don't breathe..

they lie. Their job is to fool the ignorant or stupid people who believe that shite.