http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/16/bachmann-jobs/
January 16, 2008
Bachmann: I’m ‘Proud’ That ‘We Have People Working Two Jobs’ And
‘Longer Hours’
Topping Congress’s agenda as it returns this week is a plan to
“jump-start the economy and try to shorten the slowdown that many
economists say has already begun to take hold.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/washington/15policy.html
Today, Rep. Eric Cantor (VA), the chief deputy Republican whip in the
House, unveiled his proposal to stimulate the economy.
His legislation — the so-called Middle Class Job Protection Act — does
nothing for the middle class.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1&docID=cqmidday-000002656150
Instead, it reduces the corporate tax rate by 25 percent.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVyNVY5Cp4u0&refer=home
At a press conference today unveiling the stimulus proposal, Rep.
Michele Bachmann (R-MN) justified the conservative plan to give tax
breaks to corporations — instead of working Americans — by arguing
that people actually like working long hours:
I am so proud to be from the state of Minnesota.
We’re the workingest state in the country, and the reason why we are,
we have more people that are working longer hours, we have people that
are working two jobs.
Bachmann’s version of the American Dream is apparently working two
full-time jobs and struggling to get by.
Yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that
corporate tax cuts, such as the one proposed by Cantor, “may be less
cost-effective in the short term” and less effective than a stimulus
plan consisting of “tax rebates, extended unemployment benefits and a
temporary increase in food stamps.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/5458536.html
Bachmann may be taking her cues from her bosom buddy President Bush,
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/bachmann-rebuffs-bushs-advances/
who on Feb. 4, 2005, told a divorced mother of three:
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000392.html
“You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is
fantastic that you’re doing that.”
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Some bunch, these Republicans, eh?
Harry
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