Before we take Hillary’s idiocy apart, consider the following facts: there are 140 million jobs in the US. Of those, 120 million were created by private sector firms. The other 20 million are government jobs, which only exist because of funding obtained from taxing the other 120 million employees and the businesses that employ them.
Businesses in the United States invented almost everything you touch or use every single day. Sometimes, the government got the ball rolling, like with the internet, but their invention languished until the public got involved when private firms realized they could make a buck improving the internet. Even things the government “built,” like the nation’s highways, were actually built by private contractors. Heck, there were more private contractors making sure the military could function in Iraq and Afghanistan than there were soldiers.
So at best, Hillary’s statement is backwards: “Don’t let anyone tell you the government is capable of creating jobs.” But she didn’t say that because she’s an idiot. Instead, she said the same moronic thing Obama did. She said that the only people who can create jobs are the ones who actually create jobs without the help/aid of the private sector. She forgot (or ignored the fact) that the private sector is the group that responds to consumers, which is the primary reason for jobs to exist. She forgot (or ignored the fact) that without being able to skim private sector money, there would be no government. Even the communists depended on taxes taken from capitalists to keep their sclerotic system running.
Hillary went further too. First, she wrongly equated business with “trickle-down economics.” The two are not the same. Moreover, she said of “trick-down economics” that “That has been tried and failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.” Again, she’s ignorant at best. Reagan’s economy was the best the US has had in a hundred years. Her own husband presided over a second great economic period which also was based on the same trickle-down economics she now claims “failed rather spectacularly.” In fact, all of our best economic periods have involved the principles of “trickle-down economics,” and our worst have been the result of liberal economic meddling away from these so-called trickle-down principles. Obama and Carter are the worst for a reason: their passion for big government... LBJ didn’t send us into a generational economic malaise by accident, it was his passion for big government. FDR never did manage to dig us out of depression without all of our competitors literally being put to ruins; his efforts to force the economy out of depression with big government failed year after year.
Hillary either doesn't know this or is intentionally ignoring it. Either way, she's an idiot.
And now an ad for Hickenlooper touting how he lead the recovery after the floods. Yeah, they did repair roads rapidly. I am impressed. How did they do it? By waving all of the government and environmental regulations typically needed for road and bridge building. It is amazing what they can do when the government backs off a little.
ReplyDeleteFirst part of my comment was cut off. What I said was that the libs and dems believe in the playbook that if you tell a lie often enough people will think it is true. Definitely used often by Mark Uterus.
ReplyDeleteKoshcat, That's so true. The Democrats don't seem to care at all about truth, reality or shame... they just repeat lies and idiocy until their followers believe it and then they wait for the MSM to try to hammer it home with the rest of the public.
ReplyDeleteOn Udall, he's now running an ad here (over and over) in which he claims that Gardner not only wants to "send doctors to jail longer than rapists," but sponsored a bill that would have made rape in most forms legal. Basically, it wouldn't be rape anymore to drug someone or to have sex with underaged kids.
This is such bunk. What he's lying about is an effort to clean up the messy sexual assault laws to separate the types of ways to commit sexual assault (usually none are actually called "rape") so that it's easier to charge people appropriately. Colorado in particular has a crazy scheme where you have no idea what the person actually did based on just the conviction -- which makes things like Megan's law useless because you can't distinguish between someone who kissed a 16 year old when they were 19 fifty years ago from someone who beat women senseless and then raped them. And by trying to claim that some of these would no longer be called "rape" is entirely misleading... they would all be sexual assault.
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteSo Udall is attacking Gardner for pushing for a change that many people, both conservatives and liberals, have spent years pushing for?
Anymore, I'm not so sure they're lying. They all seem so utterly convinced that good economic times are bad and bad times good that I think they just have a contrary perspective. Think about it. When the government is pulled back, while most folks are finding jobs and earning more, all the people they know are tightening the belt and being laid off. Even the modest reigns that are sequester are tragic to them b/c of pay freezes and furloughs--which are really the products of poor leadership, but the point remains. I think the Dems reall do live in opposite land.
ReplyDeleteKit, everyone except those equality-loving feminists who want to classify every gender interaction, from cat-calls to hospital dress codes, as oppression.
ReplyDeleteKit, Yes. He's mischaracterized it, however. What he's basically suggesting is that Gardner wants to make everything except forcible rape legal, but he never quite says that. Instead, he has shocked women repeat how things like being raped after being drugged or having sex with minors won't be "rape" anymore. Then they call him "too extreme for Colorado."
ReplyDeleteBTW, Udall now has his first positive ad and it's a load. He has a group of young women talk about how he worked tirelessly to make sure student loan rates didn't go up... even though they did... even though both sides wanted to pass the same solution and ultimately did.
tryanmax, They do indeed have a different target market than the GOP. The GOP is after small business owners and workers. The Democrats are after welfare cases, the race/gender obsessed, union workers, government workers and the ultra-rich. Those people tend to be immune from the economic cycle except to the extent that when everyone else is getting richer, they get jealous.
ReplyDeleteThat said, this is still an amazingly brazen and obviously stupid position to take. This won't play well with moderates... but it might help her with her left flank, if they believe she believes it. Still, it comes across as monkey see, monkey do.
Still the same old Left wing whack job married to another Left wing whack job...
ReplyDeleteCritch, Yep, that's them! LOL!
ReplyDeleteTalk about kicking a guy when he's down! Bill took a huge swipe at Barack. 'Cause...{{{boo-hoo, sniffle, sniffle}}} Bill and HIll had it so much harder. No one has accused Barack of murder! -
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And in trying to dig her way out of her earlier statement, she just digs herself a bigger hole “Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.”-
ReplyDelete“Trickle down economics has failed. I short-handed this point the other day, so let me be absolutely clear about what I’ve been saying for a couple of decades,” she said. “Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create good-paying jobs here in America and workers and families are empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out — not when we hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their profits overseas.”
Hillary's comments are pretty hysterical considering how much she, Bill and Chelsea get paid to make a speeches at one of these corporations that could trickle down pay low and middle income employees better wages. Oh, and many, many of those "tax breaks" go to her Hollywood cronies. Does Jimmy Fallon really NEED a tax incentive to move the Tonight Show to NY considering he already lives here?
Bumming a sentiment from Jon Lovitz as Michael Dukakis, I can't believe anyone would lose to ignorance like this.
ReplyDeleteNo, wait, class warfare is more alive and sickeningly well than ever in the US of A. Thanks a whole lot, President Sand Trap!
Bev, Bill never has a problem with tearing others down to make himself seem all the greater.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny about Hillary. So now she backtracks 100% and thereby does nothing to win back the public she alienated while simultaneously now losing the leftists she hoped to attract with the initial statement. It's like the worst of both worlds.
Eric, It is pretty shocking isn't it that a statement like this doesn't instantly make her into a laughingstock.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, class warfare is alive and well... sadly.
Andrew, do you ever go on to Professor Mark Perry's blog, Carpe Diem? He has good economic posts. I love this chart that showed all the created jobs in the US since 2008 essentially only occurred in Texas. This isn't exactly true as we know a few other states have huge job increases which tells you how bad it has been in other states. My question is why does president ding-dong only like Texans?
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Well, Andrew, she IS married to the man with the power to smoke, but not inhale.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she's just throwing out these nonsense statements in the hopes that one of them will stick and be her defining historical mis-statement. (I'll bet she jealous of Barry's "you didn't build that" moment.)
As for class warfare, yeah, it still works for those pig-headed types dominated by vanity and jealousy. Just look at some of the comments under this Youtube video- if you dare.
(BTW, too bad this didn't come out before your review, Andrew.)
I remember when I lived in Arkansas, he was governor the second time...there were all sorts of rumors about him having a woods colt out there in NE Arkansas, he did entertain his lady friends at the all-white country club in our town....Republicans wouldn't go near the place, only Dims. She was hardly ever in Arkansas, unless she was just putting in time at the Rose Law firm to look good. He ran with some rough people, and so did his little brother. Those stories out of Mena, AR were pretty bad.
ReplyDeleteKoshcat, I haven't read Perry blog. I think I've heard of it though.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of Texas, I keep hearing that Texas has produced more job in the past 5 years than every other state combined.
Rustbelt, I think her goal was to say something that would make the left feel that she is one of them after all. So she took the most leftists, stupidest thing Obama said and she ran with it. Sadly for her, the left isn't going to buy one comment against her entire record, her comment will turn off the public, and now she's retreated from it -- which will confirm to the left that they cannot trust her.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, even the MSM news shows are now running with her "gaffe" on jobs. So the PR on this must been pretty hostile.
Critch, I heard lots of rumors in the 1990s and knowing how corrupt so many of these backwater states are, it doesn't surprise me. But who knows. I'm amazed he and Hillary have even stayed married.
ReplyDeleteThey aren't married, they're an LLC for political purposes...Corruption was rampant in Arkansas, it was both parties. My dad always felt that the laws in Arkansas were there to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor. As late as 1989 that country club refused to let a black teenage play on their courts, even though all the other players were. Mena, AR was a major landing strip for the drug trade in those days, I don't really buy into the 37 people killed by the Clintons thing, but I know his administration looked the other way a lot when it came to Mena. I was a stockbroker down there and my boss and pretty much everyone in the office were card carrying Democrats, if Ol' Bill made a sudden stop when visiting our office it would have taken a wrecker to disconnect all those idiots from his behind..
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