Righties: "The rich create jobs!!!111!" Reality: How many rich people have given you a job?

[ck4829]

When a rich person personally offers me a job, maybe, just maybe, I'll change my tune.

My official count of how many times a wealthy person has come to my front door and said "Mr. ck4829, I have a job, if you'd like to take it" is...

0.

Demand creates jobs.
Small business creates jobs.
The middle class creates jobs.

Ultra-wealthy people getting more wealthy and finding loopholes in the tax code don't create jobs.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. The rich don't go in business into give people jobs.

What a myth.

[Rage for Order]

12. Nobody goes into business to give people jobs

Except for the government...sometimes (shovel-ready stimulus projects anyone?)

[Zynx]

2. There's a simple empirical refutation of what they say: Bush gave the rich

the biggest wealth transfer in history. His job creation was about the worst on record since Hoover. 'Nuff said.

[gratuitous]

10. Bingo, bango, bongo

The overrich just had eight years of the most incredibly favorable tax situation they've seen since the last Gilded Age, and job "creation" didn't even keep pace with the expansion of the work force. But we sure as the world shipped a bunch of jobs and billions in capital overseas.

[SharonAnn]

3. Libertarian friend of mine said "Well I bet you never got a job from a poor person", I replied

"I've never gotten a job from a rich person either. I've only gotten jobs from middle-class people and businesses because I have IT skills that they wanted to pay for in order to grow their business." Rich people didn't want my skills. They wanted cleaning ladies, gardeners, chauffeurs and cheap help for the unskilled jobs.

Rich people don't hire people into good jobs. They do look for people to take menial jobs.

[jwirr]

4. Let's see - since I live in the USA and I expect reasonable wages,

a safe working environment and job security they have given my job to someone in another country. Oh yes they do create jobs but not in this country.

[Journeyman]

5. I work for one of the wealthiest people in California, inherited wealth, generations old. . .

I rarely work with them direct, it's true, mainly through their intermediaries, but everything we do benefits society. They fund numerous life altering institutes, medical organizations, and scholastic endeavors, have consistently supported Democratic ideals and candidates, and have, on numerous occasions, expressed their distaste for BushCo and all the class-conscious choices the Republicans favor.

As with most of the opinions we form in life, I guess the particulars are hewn by our experiences.

[DustyJoe]

6. A little conundrum

I went to work for a small commuter airline in 1988. It was owned by a husband/wife team. He was the mechanic and she sold tickets at the counter. They leased 2 planes and had 30 employees. When I left in 1998 10 years later. The airline had grown to over 200 planes and over 5000 employees. Yes, 10 years later he could be classified as 'rich', but I always believed he came by it rightfully. So yes, I believe rich people create jobs if they want to grow their company. Just my 2 cents.

[ck4829]

9. I believe that there are plenty of honorable rich people out there

It's just so utterly annoying the way the right wingers act like how people who are ultra-wealthy are the ONLY source of job creation.

It's hard to believe that these people had the White House on speed dial just a couple of months ago.

[Waiting For Everyman]

7. Yep, they do...

The rich are always interested in creating more "jobs" for slaves in the third world.

...if you call that jobs.

Our idea of jobs which pay a minimum wage or more... not so much. They hate those. Want them done away with. And they're very dedicated to working on it.

But then, this "breakdown of communication" (as per the movie "Cool Hand Luke") is not surprising, because the rich are also the ones who promote reversing the meanings of words in order to deceive people. Example: "small" government is much bigger, off-the-books privatized government.

Their "black-is-white-think" requires a lot of translating to be understood.

To answer your OP question though: zero. I got most of my jobs either by creating them myself, or through word-of-mouth about what I had done well for a previous employer and being ASKED to do the same for another (all small businesses). My current job is with the federal government - that awful, hated, do-nothing, over-taxing :sarcasm: nemesis of the rich.

This teabagging is more of their decades-long push to get people to hate the government, and thereby, enable the rich to tear it apart. This little fad is nothing new. It's more of the same.

[corruptmewithpower]

8. The federal government is the only place hiring these days.

That's where the money is.

[salguine]

11. They sure do... in India, bitch.

[MasonJar]

13. And without the worker bees the QUEEN would never get rich.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. No one has ever "given" anyone a job.

Well, no one outside the GOP that is.