"A job is something that a business owner creates. What this administration is talking about is 'making work.' ... It's not a job."-- RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Feb. 8th.
Government doesn't create jobs? Is there anything more retarded than that statement? This, however, is the modern Republican Party talking. This is why they oppose the stimulus bill, because in their world the government doesn't employee anyone.
Go tell all those federal employees that they don't have real jobs. Don't forget either that the government owns the banking industry and the insurance industry, what used to be considered private sector jobs but are now federally funded industries, that they too do not have real jobs. Please let the GOP explain to all the subsidized farmers that they aren't doing real work. Go tell the correctional officers they aren't really working since they aren't in the private industry. I would love to hear the GOP explain to the cops that what they do isn't real work since they are paid by tax payer money. And oh yeah, our men and women in uniform in Iraq and Afghanistan serving our country, doing everything that has been asked of them, that they aren't really doing a job since government pays their bills. Go tell them you big macho Party.
These people are cavemen. Listening to them talk is like listening to someone trying to explain to me that the Sun revolves around the Earth. They live in a world that long ago disappeared but refuse to face reality. They are like cavemen who believe the only responsibility of government is to rub two sticks together, but even that may be too much work for them.
*Update:
There is nothing more indicative of the modern GOP and how it portrays not only government but people's relation to government than their stance on the stimulus bill.
As detailed above the Republican Party does not believe that government can create jobs. Or if it does create a job it's not a real job. Never mind the fact that Republicans call me daily wanting a good government job, however. But here we also have actual elected Republican officials bragging about their recent actions toward the stimulus bill.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)--“We are so far ahead of where we thought we’d be at this time...standing on our core principles” against President Obama’s recovery plans.
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)--Opposition towards the stimulus “will give us a shot in the arm going forward is that we are standing up on principle and just saying no.”
Their core principle is the belief that government does not create jobs. They're excited by their party's ability to not budge on such core ideals. They are excited by the fact that they can go on the national airwaves, as government employees mind you, and pronounce one of the most discarded notions in human history (completely unfettered) that government cannot create jobs for people. I hope when these Republicans return home they do not fly in an airplane because all are subsidized by federal tax payer money, or drive on roads entirely built by federal tax dollars. I hope they hike on trails and backpack to get home because if they don't they are the biggest hypocrites the world has ever seen.
**Update II:
Where the sun always shines.
Head of the Republican Party,
Only in the Republican Fantasy World can someone have a 67% percent approval rating on an issue and they be "upside-down in the polls." Because, remember, George Bush was by far the greatest and most liked president to ever serve and we know this because he was not at all upside-down in the polls.
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