An excellent script for Kerry on "jobs"

[papau]

Thanks to snippy who posted this excellent ad script in an LBN response!.

Show the video of Bush saying this:

"Forty workers here, five workers there, begin to add up."


In 2001 Bush told us that his tax cuts would create 575,000 new jobs.

In 2002 he told us that his tax cuts would create 2,500,000 new jobs.

In 2003 he told us that his tax cuts would create 2,000,000 new jobs.

In 1993 the republican party told us that passing president Clinton's tax bill would destroy the economy and put millions out of work.

{Show the video of Bush saying this}

"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."


Can your family afford to be fooled again?

[Gunit_Sangh]

1. I would reverse that slightly

I would put the part about the 1993 tax bill first and then show the number of jobs it created.

Then go to the number of jobs * said would be created, then follow with the number of jobs lost each year, and then the video of him making a fool of himself.

I DO like the idea!!! Excellent thinking

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Great idea!

I love the idea of airing footage of Bush being a royal moron. In fact, I hope someone like truthout or moveon will make a commercial with absolutely no commentary - just a compendium of Bush sounding like an asshole.

[DaBigJagov]

3. I don't trust the government to 'create' jobs.

Is there ever going to be a point when unemployment is 0%?? Allowing jobs to happen should be the role of the government. I'd like to see John Kerry come out and say that prosperity is the role of the people not the government, and say that he will do whatever it takes to un-hinder prosperity and allow people to pursue their own personal American Dream. It's one thing to worry about finding work ... it's quite another to think that the government has a role to play here. Just where is it written that it is the function of the federal government to provide you with a job, or to help you find one? Getting a job is your problem, not the government's.

It's just this simple. During your early years you work to develop job skills and a work ethic. When your education process is over you take your work skills, your experience and your work ethic into the marketplace. If the skills you developed match an available job, and if you and the person who owns that job (the employer) can reach an agreement on wages, benefits, etc., you get hired and you start to earn an income. Where is the government role here?

Sadly, with each passing year more and more Americans adopt the idea that the government is there to make sure they get a good job. Freedom and economic liberty cannot survive this level of voter stupidity.

[fiorello]

4. Government policy has a huge effect on unemployment

Unemployment reached 10% under Reagan, and dropped to 4% under Clinton. Did people become lazy when Reagan was elected? Did they suddenly develop a work ethic when Clinton was elected? Nope... Reagan's policies encouraged high unemployment, Clinton's encouraged low unemployment.

This happens in part through 'economic' levers such as interest rates, which can encourage job creation (risking inflation) or not. One economist (James Galbraith) referred to 5% as the 'ethical level of employment', noting that when unemployment exceeds 5%, incomes become more unequal as desperate people are forced to accept pay cuts. Republicans don't shout it - but their economic policies have always kept unemployment above 5%, ensuring that wages stay low.