RNC Chair: "Jobs" only come from private sector, government never creates "jobs"

[kevyn]

You know, I've heard tortured logic before, but this is just ridiculous:

So by RNC Chair Michael Steele's logic, then a being a schoolteacher isn't a job. Being a fireman isn't a job. Being a policeman isn't a job. Being a member of the military isn't a job. Hell, by that standard, my mother, who spent 22 years as a career U.S. Army Nurse, taking care of military personnel and dependants, and raising 3 kids that way, didn't have a job. It was just work.

BULLSHIT!

This goes right to the heart of what's wrong with the Republican establishment today: They think that the "Free Market" is the solution to everything! I have news for them: IT'S NOT. It's just one tool in the toolbelt.

The truth, as I see it: The tool we need right now is a big dose of FDR-style SOCIALISM.

Comments

Where have you been?

[beartech420.livejournal.com]

American Banks got 350 billion in support already. Isn't that socialism?
;')

[canismajor3.livejournal.com]

good to know that if i ever go teach for a university, i'll be jobless.

Amen to socialism.

And I love the idea that the free market is the solution: after all, the free market has done SUCH a good job so far.

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

He needs to talk to the military about changing their marketing campaign. Military as long-term employment has been something they've been pushing since the 70s.

And as a small business owner, I'm not sure I'm willing to take on risks that my own government doesn't feel it can handle. That's a message I'm pretty sure he does not want to be sending and I got it loud and clear.

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

And also: Fuckin' wanker.