John Boehner is beginning to sound like an 8-year old child sitting in the back seat of the car, whining over and over, “Are we there yet Daddy? Are we there yet? Huh, Daddy? Are we there?”, when any fool can see that the car is barely out of the driveway.
Of course we’re not there yet. How foolish, how naïve, how ignorant and totally uninformed someone must be, to expect that a problem that was carefully created over an eight-year period should be fixed in just a few months.
What stupidity! And all in the face of a record number of Republican filibusters on the very issues that would create or save jobs!
The job loss figures, as clearly set forth in the well-known and oft-quoted ‘bikini chart’, show a steady job loss and deficit increase right up to the very last days of the Bush government. Therefore, the problem of creating jobs should come as no surprise to anyone. The loss of jobs is something that everyone should have seen.
Unfortunately, what John Boehner is doing is more destructive than it is helpful. Instead of making a positive contribution, John brays like a jackass, repeating his Bush-tax-cuts mantra, while it is obvious that he has nothing of substance to add to the conversation. All he has is his stupid mantra about unemployment, and Bush tax cuts creating jobs.
John should get his nose out of his navel and focus instead on the real world, the one the American People see when we look out of our windows. John loves to tell you, with considerable authority, what the American People know, but he’s wrong. The American People know that it’s the SALE OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES and NOT TAX CUTS that CREATE JOBS.
The American People know that the Bush tax cuts allow corporations to exist on what is, in effect, a corporate welfare program, rather than having to exist on the profits they receive from the production and sale of their core product or service. In fact, the Bush tax cuts/welfare payments actually reward corporations for not creating jobs. Why should they worry about actually earning their bottom line, if they know they’ll get a yearly handout from the government?
The truth is, the American People believe that the large corporations are spoiled rotten. They’ve become accustomed to their welfare tax cuts, and now they don’t have the guts to go to work and get off the tax cut dole. The corporations claim that they cannot survive on the income they generate from the proper conduct of their business, and that’s why they absolutely need the Bush tax cuts/welfare payments. Therefore, in actual point of fact, the Bush tax cuts are nothing more than corporate welfare.
For these corporations to ask for welfare benefits, while at the same time posting record profits, makes them nothing more than corporate welfare queens. Think about it! John Boehner wants to continue Bush welfare payments to corporate welfare queens. Brilliant! Astounding! How can anyone with any common sense at all give John Boehner the slightest attention? How can the American People take him seriously?
In the mean time, I wish he’d either wise up or shut up. If it were my child sitting in the back seat of the car, whining and fussing, I’d set the kid straight right away. “Listen up, Kid,” I’d say. “No, we’re not there yet. Of course not! We just pulled out of the driveway. Also, Kid, notice that we’re not going very fast. And then too, if you knew where we were going, you wouldn’t be asking over and over again if we’re there yet. You obviously don’t know where we’re going, so just sit still and be quiet. Let me do the driving. I’ll tell you when we get there.”
Surely there must be some more mature, insightful, and honest voices even on Mr. Boehner’s side of the aisle that can set him straight!