If you get a job building roads, bridges, school, or anything with money that comes from the Federal Government, you don't have a 'real' job. That's what the newly-elected Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele believes. According to this brilliant guy, government-funded jobs don't count as real employment because "a job is something that a business owner creates."
No wonder they don't believe in building roads, bridges, and schools as means to create jobs. Those can't create jobs. Let's turn the money to Citigroup, AIG, Bank of America. They will hire engineering companies and get it right. If they don't, they will come back to...the federal government and ask for another bailout.
To explain what he means by "a job is something that a business owner creates," Steele adds that "what this administration is talking about is 'making work.' ... It's not a job... It ends at a certain point. ... These road projects that we're talking about have an endpoint. ... There's no guarantee that there's going to be more work when you're done that job."
So, if you are a contractor, who bids contract to contract in the private sector, by Steele's definition, you are "making work," you don't have a job because there is an endpoint to your contract. After all, there is no guarantee that there will be another one. What is a guarantee from a private sector that there is always demand for a product?
Mr. Steele, do you think Obama will create a government agency to build roads? Private companies will do the job, you smart guy!!!
Even if the feds would do the job by hiring temporary workers, "making work" is exactly the goal of the stimulus. Get people working on those 'temporary' two-year to ten-year projects.
Has this guy ever heard about the propensity to spend. People in those sectors spend what they make thereby buying what somebody else, most likely a private business, produces. By depriving this economy from those 'making work' gigs, you are depriving the private businesses of that income they would otherwise generate from the 'making work' guy. Oh yeah, the federal government collects taxes from all parties (the 'making work' guy, the private business) and the loop continues.
I really hope they keep sending this moron on TV every Sunday. You thought Sarah Palin was terrible.
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This joker probably never has a shovel or a pick in his hands in his life. Now if you want a non work job, try his.
This guy is a joke. I hope he continues to explain "making work" vs. "real job." That will really fly on people who have no job right now.
"you don't need a 'making work'. What you need is a 'real job.' Wait until the recession is over, a business will create one.
Brilliant. Stay with that Steele. Way to start.
If Obama REALLY wants to treat all Americans fairly, he will rescind that EO.Otherwise, it's just political payback.
Yeah, it is like it but this one is even worse. A career construction worker, working with a private construction firm who is contracted by the government to build a highway does not have a job according to Steele.
If the same guy's company is contracted by Donald Trump to build a tower, he has a job, according to Steele.
Both are temporary. All construction jobs have an end date. Yet, one is a job, and one is 'making work' because "a job is something that a business owner creates."
That's how dumb his logic is.
Better days ahead of the GOP but not with this generation of leaders. These guys have no message but cut taxes.
Private businesses create jobs. Those jobs never go away. They come back. LOL.
My only hope is that there is at least ONE republican senator to repeat this before the stimulus vote.
What a bunch of malarkey that is.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a job as "a post of employment; full-time or part-time position". It makes no mention of who the employer is because it does not matter.
If some wealthy individual hires you to clean their house for them you have a job. If some company hires you into a position in their office, factory or warehouse you have a job. If some building contractor hires you to work on a government funded project you have a job. If the government itself hires you into one of its many departments you have a job.
Given that so many companies are laying off thousands of workers one would think that anyone concerned for the welfare of the average American working family would welcome government "make work" projects that give these laid off private sector workers a job. Especially when those projects address needed infrastructure repairs.
Unless one places more importance on their personal point of view concerning public vs. private than one places on the welfare of their fellow citizen. I think the Amercian Heritage Dictionary might use that as a definition of Republican.