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johnwk
10-15-2011, 09:18 PM
SEE:Senators Unveil Jobs Through Growth Act (http://paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=351)


Sens. Paul, Portman, McCain and McConnell offer Republican plan to create millions of American jobs
Oct 13, 2011


Some of the provisions CLICK HERE (http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=feb4d840-c3be-83b1-a1fb-b7f2a039e94d) are as follows:


Require a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution - (S.J.Res.10, Sen. Hatch)


A proposed balanced budget amendment which neither requires an annual balanced budget and actually makes it constitutional for Congress to not balance the budget. But heck, with a title such as “balanced budget amendment” who would ever think of analyzing what the actual proposal would really accomplish .


Enact Enhanced Rescission Authority - (S.102, Sens. McCain & Carper)


This of course is the Washington Establishment’s long sought after presidential “line item veto power” which our founding fathers specifically rejected because it would place a blackmailing power in the hands of the president and undermine our representative system of government!


In discussing veto power during the framing of our Constitution Benjamin Franklin notes the following on June 4 (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_604.asp) of the Constitutional Convention, and reminds the delegates how the veto power had been exercised by royal governors and why the convention should not grant such power to the president:


'The negative of the governor was constantly made use of to extort money. No good law whatever could be passed without a private bargain with him. An increase of salary or some donation, was always made a condition; till at last, it became the regular practice to have orders in his favor on the treasury presented along with the bills to be signed, so that he might actually receive the former before he should sign the latter. When the Indians were scalping the Western people, and notice of it arrived, the concurrence of the governor in the means of self-defense could not be got, until it was agreed that the people were to fight for the security of his property, whilst he was to have no share of the burdens of taxation.''


Reduce and Reform Individual, Small Business and Corporate Taxation


Under this proposal, the objective is to keep the insidious income tax alive and manipulate it rather than withdrawing Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries, tips, wages, etc., and return to our Constitution’s original tax plan.


Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act - (S.1438, Sen. Ron Johnson)


Now that the Obama Administration has put countless new subversive and unconstitutional regulations into effect, our good cops, the Republican Party Leadership, promises to prohibit any new regulations until the America People have learned to submit to and be obedient in accepting the existing tyranny imposed upon them by the Obama Administration.


Renew Trade Promotion Authority - (S. Amdt. 626, Sen. McConnell)


This hideous proposal is to undermine the power and responsibility delegated by our Founding Fathers to Congress to regulate America’s commerce with foreign nations with America‘s best interests in mind! Our Republican subversive’s idea is to have the President exercise this power on “fast track” and then take the heat for a continuance of the Washington Establishment’s closing down of America’s manufacturing base and moving it to foreign nations paying slave labor wages, who will then be allowed to import their products with the assurance of no import duties or regulatory interferences from Congress. Of course, this will create jobs for the American people on America soil ____ selling the crap from China that falls apart and poisons the America People who are no longer able to buy American made products because part of the Establishment’s aim from the very beginning has always been to close down all competition, especially America’s manufacturing base and its high quality well manufactured products which are almost impossible to find these days.


I would go on but hopefully Tea Party Actives will learn from the above that the Republican Party Leadership has already co-opted their beloved Ran Paul who has signed on to such tyranny!.


JWK


America we have a problem! We have a group of DOMESTIC ENEMIES (http://republicmainstreet.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/members-of-the-congressional-progressive-caucus-is-your-representative-a-member/) who have managed to seize political power and whose mission is in fact to bring “change” to America ___ the dismantling of our military defensive power; the allowance of our borders to be overrun by foreign invaders, the diluting of our election process by allowing ineligible persons to vote; the circumvention of our Republican Form of Government which is now replace with a 12 member committee vested with power to make law; the destruction of our manufacturing capabilities; the transferring of America’s technology to hostile foreign nations; the strangulation of our agricultural industry and ability to produce food under the guise of environmental necessity; the destruction of our nation’s health care delivery system, the interference with our ability to develop our natural resources, namely oil, to fuel our economy; the looting of both our federal treasury and a mandatory retirement pension fund; the brainwashing of our nation’s children in government operated schools; the trashing of our nation’s traditions and moral values; the creation of an iron fisted control unauthorized by our written Constitution over America’s businesses and industries; the devaluation of our nation’s currency, and, the future enslavement of our children and grand children via unbridled debt and inflation, not to mention an iron fisted government which intends to rule their very lives!

AuH20
10-15-2011, 09:21 PM
There is no way this bill is getting passed because it violates key planks of the Democratic Party. No way.

johnwk
10-16-2011, 11:37 AM
There is no way this bill is getting passed because it violates key planks of the Democratic Party. No way.

And spits upon our Constitution!


JWK

FrankRep
10-16-2011, 12:27 PM
After the Senate defeated the President's jobs bill on Tuesday, Senate Republicans are now offering their alternative, the Jobs Through Growth Act.


The Republicans’ New Jobs Through Growth Act (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9381-the-republicans-new-jobs-through-growth-act)


Bob Adelmann | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
14 October 2011


Following the Senate’s rejection of President Obama’s jobs bill on Tuesday, Senate Republicans have offered their own jobs bill, The Jobs Through Growth Act, as an alternative (http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=feb4d840-c3be-83b1-a1fb-b7f2a039e94d). Presented by Senators John McCain (Ariz.), Rand Paul (Ky., left) and Rob Portman (Ohio), the bill is designed to defuse the President’s charge that the Republicans had no plan of their own (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-jobs-2011101h4,0,6693924.story) as well as offer different approaches to stimulating job growth. Said Paul, “We simply cannot look to the failed policies of the last two years for an example of how to grow our economy and create jobs. More government spending and excessive regulation are the problem, not the solution. We have spent too long increasing the tax and regulatory burdens on job creators, instead of allowing them to operate more freely and create more jobs.”

McCain said “We just thought it was time to put this all into a package. I will freely admit to you that part of it is in response to the president saying we don’t have a proposal,” while Portman called it “a pro-growth proposal to create the environment for jobs … as opposed to the short-term sweetener approach of the Obama administration that simply hasn’t worked.” According to McCain, most Senate Republicans have signed onto the bill.

The bill is an agglomeration of bills offered by various Senators all wrapped up in one package. The big one is repeal of ObamaCare (Senate Bill 192, offered by Senator Jim DeMint), which would remove more than $550 billion in new taxes as that law is implemented, and keep medical costs from rising even higher by an estimated $300 billion. Insurance costs under ObamaCare per family are projected to increase by $2,100 a year to say nothing of the projected 800,000 job losses expected if ObamaCare stays in place.

Next is repeal of the Dodd-Frank bill (also offered by Senator DeMint, as SB 712) now being implemented with new rules that haven’t been completed yet and aren’t expected to be for many months. According to the Financial Services Roundtable, Dodd-Frank could cost 4.6 million jobs by the year 2015 unless it is repealed.

Revamping the tax code is the next major piece, to be accomplished by reducing individual and corporate tax rates to 25 percent while requiring the Senate Finance Committee to make changes in various credits and deductions in order to keep these reductions “revenue neutral.”

There is also the requirement (offered by Senator Orrin Hatch, S.J.Res.10) to require a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, a process that, if passed, could take years to gain sufficient approval from the states. And there is a line-item veto, despite the Supreme Court’s decision in 1998 that such a law is unconstitutional.

In addition, there is the corporate “tax holiday” offered to repatriate some $1.4 trillion in foreign earnings that under current law would be subject to taxes up to 35 percent if they were brought back to this country. That additional capital, it is suggested, would then be invested in new equipment and jobs instead of lying idle abroad.

There is some effort to rein in aggressive actions by various regulatory agencies such as the EPA and the National Labor Relations Board by requiring them to justify their regulations and measure their impact on job creation (or loss) before implementing them. And other parts of the bill encourage regulatory agencies to speed up allowing drilling for oil on public lands and offshore as well. The President would be given “fast-tracking” to allow speedy approval of free-trade agreements which are alleged to have a positive impact on job creation in the economy.

The Republicans’ Jobs Through Growth Act is just the latest of a flurry of “jobs” bills, including the President’s Americans Jobs Act of 2011 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:S.1660:#), the House Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators (http://majorityleader.gov/Jobs/HRP_JOBS_SUMMARY.pdf), the House Democrats’ Make It In America (http://www.dems.gov/issues/make-it-in-america) plan, and a plan offered by the House Progressive Caucus (http://www.keithellison.org/news/2011/09/jobs-plan-unveiled-by-house-progressive-caucus/).

Despite the differences between the latest offering by Senate Republicans and the others presented by both houses of Congress, there is little likelihood that anything will be voted on and passed before the November 2012 elections. The impasse is dictated by more than electoral considerations, however. As noted accurately by Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer (Md.):



The fundamental difference is, Democrats see government as a partner in progress and growth. The Republicans — at least those that have been elected recently — see [government] as the impediment to growth.


And that is the crux of the matter. Hoyer unwittingly acknowledged that most Republicans, except for those “elected recently” are generally in favor of government intrusion in all aspects of life. As long as their number is small, all that those who see government as the impediment can do is to thwart efforts to push for more government, all in the name of job creation. But if their number were to grow significantly after the next election, then perhaps some of the more useful pieces can be enacted, including certainly repeal of ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank.


SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/9381-the-republicans-new-jobs-through-growth-act