{"id":8646,"date":"2011-08-05T06:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T13:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8646"},"modified":"2011-08-05T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:50:57","slug":"record-profits-for-job-creators-record-food-stamps-for-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8646","title":{"rendered":"Record Profits for ‘Job Creators,’ Record Food Stamps For Everyone Else…"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the GOP’s greatest new (and most cynical) propaganda successes is the invention of the absurd, misleading, inaccurate phrase “job creators” as a euphemism for corporations, or rich people, or their wealthy patrons, or whoever it refers to in reality.<\/p>\n

But those corporations don’t “create jobs.” People do. When they have money to spend on things, they do. Surely, even fake “conservatives” are familiar with “Supply and Demand.” It’s just not politically convenient or expedient for them to mention that phrase out loud right now. People who don’t have jobs don’t tend to buy much. If they have jobs, those people become job creators because they buy stuff.<\/p>\n

That the rich, corporate fat cats who now run the country (instead of “we, the people” as was formally the case — in theory) are not “job creators” is underscored plainly by these two recent news items:<\/p>\n

1)<\/b> Despite nearly unprecedented unemployment numbers, profits for U.S. corporations were at an all-time record high in 2010<\/a>. Fancy that. And they are now on pace to break that record in 2011<\/a>. <\/p>\n

2)<\/b> Despite profits for U.S. corporations at record highs, for the American people<\/i>, the real “job creators,” food stamp usage is now also at an all-time record high…<\/p>\n

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See any problems there? And contradictions between items 1 and 2?<\/p>\n

“Job creators” my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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