Harry Reid: Hey, bureaucrats are the ones hurting (video)
Sharron Angle giveth, Sharron Angle taketh away. On the one hand, the Nevada Republican’s awful campaign last year against incumbent Harry Reid helped Democrats avoid an embarrassing electoral defeat and maintain their majority in the Senate. On the other, keeping Reid in office means Republicans still have someone to practically write the campaign ads for them.
Here’s Reid on the Senate floor Wednesday, explaining that the private sector is in fine shape — it’s the public sector that’s hurting during the Obama Recovery:
Via Jeff Emanuel at RedState, who notes that the federal government’s unemployment statistics prove the exact opposite — the unemployment rate for government workers last month was in fact the lowest for any sector. Just as it was a year ago.
Folks, there is nothing wrong with the economy that Democratic leaders think government — more spending, more regulation and now more hiring — can’t fix. Just ask them.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:13 pm
Yes, the GOP is full of people who know more than you.
Lynnie Gal
October 20th, 2011
6:17 pm
I believe Reid misspoke when he said, “public sector jobs are doing just fine.” I think what he meant was the “public sector is fine.” Corporations are sitting on three trillion dollars and are not hiring Americans for jobs. They are benefiting from tax breaks, and are not creating jobs for Americans. The Bush tax cuts that were extended were supposed to create jobs, remember? Where are the jobs?
Tommy Maddox
October 20th, 2011
6:18 pm
The jobs are waiting for Obamacare to be gutted.
Tommy Maddox
October 20th, 2011
6:19 pm
Oh, ask Harry where the jobs are.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:22 pm
The Bush tax cuts DID create jobs, when they were initially made. Obozo didn’t cut income tax rates, he kept them the same. Keeping tax rates the same doesn’t create jobs. And Obozo’s payroll tax cut didn’t work either.
Obozo: Fail.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:26 pm
Obozo blew $800 billion on his “stimulus”. Where are the jobs?
Mark T
October 20th, 2011
6:26 pm
getalife
October 20th, 2011
3:57 pm
It is called the Arab and American awakening.
We are changing the world .
Join us.
Now thats funny!
Real Athens
October 20th, 2011
6:26 pm
When I was in Vancouver and came down with Strep they didn’t ration my health care and I’m not even a citizen. I made a same day appontment at a clinic down the street from the hotel. Carried my own throat culture across the street to the lab that tested it while I waited. Went back across the street with the results, got a prescription, walked two blocks down the street and picked up my antibiotic regimen.
It took about 90 minutes and cost $45 — in 2008.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:28 pm
My uncle lives in Saskatchewan and waited 5 months for an MRI.
Rationing.
Hillbilly D
October 20th, 2011
6:31 pm
In the U S, the insurance company rations the healthcare.
@@
October 20th, 2011
6:31 pm
The private sector is doing just fine!!??!!
I guess we can scrap the jobs bill then.
Doofus!
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
October 20th, 2011
6:34 pm
“Harry Reid misspoke”.
He makes a habit of doing that. What a waste of oxygen.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:36 pm
In the US, you’re not prevented from getting health care when the insurance company doesn’t cover something.
Want some health care? Go get it.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:37 pm
@@, it’s not a jobs bill, it’s a government workers union payoff bill.
spaceman109
October 20th, 2011
6:38 pm
im my opinion, bidnesspeople do not create jobs primarily because they got a tax cut or because of fewer regulations. these people create jobs primarily because there is more demand for their product or service. one wonders where this demand is supposed to materialize since not only are there so many unemployed, but the overwhelming majority of those who are employed have seen their pay frozen while costs (expecially health care premiums) continue to race upward.
someone on this blog should please explain how they would propose creating more consumer demand given the existing conditions i just described.
Road Scholar
October 20th, 2011
6:38 pm
LBB:”It’s a whole lot easier to explain how tax CUTS create jobs than it is to explain how tax INCREASES create jobs. ”
OK Basic economy…taxes can fund infrastruture needs,… the government HIRES contractors and engineers to design them…, the Contractors BUY materials in the private sector to build said infrastructure…the private sector Hires workers to make the materials…all must eat, transport themselves and goods…more private sector jobs are maintained and created to service the people designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure…and how do I know this…it has worked before over and over bringing us out of recession after recession etc.
Road Scholar
October 20th, 2011
6:40 pm
Oh and those wages paid turn over about 7 times in the duration of construction, thus creating more economic activity. Good Night Barry!
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:41 pm
I said “real jobs”, not “government jobs”. There is a difference.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
6:42 pm
And your “basic economics” says that the free market allocates resources more efficiently than bureaucrats.
Example: USSR.
Streetracer
October 20th, 2011
7:04 pm
Road Scholar @ 6:38
Since infrastructure is one of the two basic functions of local government, where have my local tax dollars been going? Since this is a basic function, why do we need extra money to fund it?
Gm
October 20th, 2011
7:05 pm
Yea its really goverment fault, who sent our jobs overseas”" Hey kyle tell me what job bills has the Rep party passed? These idiots voted against Obama job bill that could have put thousands to work.
This party would rather destroy America then to work with the President, Bush let these people on wall street run lose while he collect from the oil people, but you blame government workers””
the red herring
October 20th, 2011
7:16 pm
both parties sent our manufacturing jobs across the borders and over seas. franken-dodd created the monster that killed our building industry— you can catch any number of barney frank disputing his own words —what a joke. shame that all the people that contributed to the downfall of our jobs/manufacturing/etc can’t just say “i made a mistake” rather than continue to lie about it—-simply search the internet for videos of barney frank making one statement and then denying it on the next video… clinton began the shipping of our jobs out of the country–bush continued it —obama has worsened it. time for a change and hope alright—but it comes from tea party people who want to live within our means just like most of us have to do in our own households.
RustyHinges
October 20th, 2011
7:36 pm
And speaking of people hurting, let’s see what’s going on with Atlanta’s Occupados…
This is straight out of a comedy script. Bunch of dumba$$, punk dopeheads.
“Occupy Atlanta’s march to Buckhead fizzled Thursday after some participants apparently lost their way on MARTA”
First, part of the contingent failed to show; they were coming on MARTA but presumably lost their way, Occupy Atlanta participants told Channel 2 Action News’ Richard Elliot.
Then, about a dozen protesters put tape across their mouths and tried to enter the hotel, intending to walk through the attached Lenox Square shopping mall to Phipps. But security guards stopped them and told them the demonstrators would not be allowed in the hotel, as it was private property.
One organizer told Elliot that the protesters had not realized the mall was private property.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/occupy-atlanta-event-fizzles-1206373.html
RustyHinges
October 20th, 2011
7:41 pm
And to further show its lefty bias, the article remained all of 90 minutes on the AJC home page.
Fast and Furious Spending
October 20th, 2011
8:13 pm
The Arab American awakening? and no black lung disease in coal mines? no dirty water, air and no global warming? a “fine” private sector? but a crumbling public sector?
The agenda of the left is to laugh at.
I’m not sure how this happened, but the apparent truth of the matter is that no program of the left is judged ill if the intentions are good, no matter how many are harmed. No program of the right is judged good, no matter how many peoplee are helped.
And somehow Harry Reid gets away with making such a stupid comment that can only be either 1) grossly misinformed, so much that he ought to resign, or 2) so outrageously prevaricating that he should be promoted to head of the DNC and Chief of Staff at the White House, combined.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: Thee Magnificent!!! mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
October 20th, 2011
8:37 pm
If you think about it, obozo is nothing but a Moammar Khadaffy wanna-be.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
October 20th, 2011
9:55 pm
“With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.”
———-
Wow. Just amazing.
Finland: doing the highly paid jobs Obozo won’t allow Americans to do.
JDW
October 20th, 2011
10:16 pm
@Barry…”In the US, you’re not prevented from getting health care when the insurance company doesn’t cover something.
Want some health care? Go get it.”
You dufus, same exact thing applies in Canada, UK or anywhere else that has single payer…you don’t like what you get with the standard plan you are free to pay what you want for other care…only difference bettween them and us is they pay around 1/2 what we do for that standard plan so they have more to spend…
2008 Healthcare Spending Per Capita
US…$7,538
Canada…$4,079
UK…$3,129
Norway…$5,003…they spend the 2cd most
By the way all those places get longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality and generally better results from thier spend.
http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/OECD042111.cfm
Tiberius - Your lightning rod of hate!
October 20th, 2011
10:52 pm
JDW, take 30% off the top of our healthcare costs because of defensive medicine practiced by physicians in order to avoid malpractice suits. Then take 20% off the difference between our life expectancy and other countries due to the difference in our freedom to do really, really stupid things to ourselves that other countries regulate in the name of safety and security.
Once you do that and look at things realistically, our healthcare system stacks up better than everybody else’s once you compare apples to apples.
JKL2
October 20th, 2011
10:53 pm
jefferson- When labor is treated like a “human resource” and is in high supply (USA), a labor union is the only chance a worker has to be treated fairly and compensated justly.
Let’s just raise the minimum wage up to a reasonable $20/hr and watch jobs come falling out of the sky…
JKL2
October 20th, 2011
11:17 pm
JDW- By the way all those places get longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality and generally better results from thier spend
Is that why they come running south acrross the border to get treatment? Our doctor’s are miracle workers. Problem is they have to deal with an inferior product and patients too stupid to follow orders or to lazy to do anything on their behalf to save their own life.
To increase life expectancy you might want to address our being the fattest, laziest country on the planet.
Acer706
October 20th, 2011
11:26 pm
A Health Policy Is Cheaper Than That iPhone Plan… And This IS Your Life People!
Jobs belong to the companies… not Govt! They can do whatever they want with them~!
paul
October 21st, 2011
1:26 am
You must admit democrats…. Old Harry become unhinged.
paul
October 21st, 2011
1:32 am
I mean Old Harry has become unhinged!
Joel Edge
October 21st, 2011
3:55 am
Harry Reid and Joe Biden are, without a doubt, two of the best reasons for voting Republican.
JDW
October 21st, 2011
7:38 am
@Tiberius…”take 30% off the top of our healthcare costs because of defensive medicine practiced by physicians in order to avoid malpractice suits.”
You are in a Repugican induced dream world…the cost of defensive medicine is an issue but a small one. The latest estimate from Health Affairs puts it at $46.5 billion which added to malpractice premiums runs the ENTIRE liability cost to $55.6 Billion. At 307 million people that’s about $181 per year or about 2.5% of the $7538 total per capita cost.
As for that 20% because our “our freedom to do really, really stupid things to ourselves that other countries regulate” that’s just absurd.
JDW
October 21st, 2011
7:44 am
@JKL2…”Is that why they come running south acrross the border to get treatment?”
Here is a nice post from the Denver Post that debunks that and other common myths…
http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_12523427
BTW if numbers were availible we would probably find more Americans going to low cost health care destinations than the reverse to be true.
JDW
October 21st, 2011
7:48 am
@Tiberius…your should read the Canadian article in the Denver Post too…it points out that we have the…
“most bureaucratic health care system in the world. More than 31 percent of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. goes to paperwork, overhead, CEO salaries, profits, etc. The provincial single-payer system in Canada operates with just a 1 percent overhead.”
That means that we spend $2,336 per year per person to run the health insurance companies.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 21st, 2011
7:53 am
JDW, if you don’t want to buy health insurance, don’t.
But kindly keep your (and more importantly, Obozo’s) fascist power grab off my healthcare.
JDW
October 21st, 2011
8:42 am
@Barry…”But kindly keep your (and more importantly, Obozo’s) fascist power grab off my healthcare.”
That the best you can do? Come lets have some data to show me how good our health care system is or how much value it delivers when compared to it’s peers. Good luck with that! You will be searching a long time.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward)
October 21st, 2011
9:00 am
My healthcare system is fine.
Keep your fascism off my healthcare.
JDW
October 21st, 2011
9:20 am
@Barry…”My healthcare system is fine. Keep your fascism off my healthcare.”
See Barry this is why people like you are the problem…not only do you have no solutions you can’t even see the problems.