GOP cost U.S. nearly 1 million jobs in 3 years

Before my Republican friends roll their eyes and dismiss this study as some lib'rul media/Media Matters hack job, please note that this study was commissioned by the Peterson Foundation, the founder of the "Fix the Debt CEOs" group that wants to cut the U.S. federal safety net in order to decrease the national debt.  

Republicans can't be trusted as stewards of the U.S. economy. They've got two tricks in their bag: tax cuts and deregulation. But after they've cut taxes to the bone and given business license to do anything, anywhere, to anybody... they're worthless.

Republican Debt Crises Have Killed 900,000 Jobs: Study

By Mark Gongloff

October 15, 2013 | Huffington Post

URL: http://huff.to/18i1lHb

Starbucks' surplus of hypocrisy on deficits

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is asking Americans to gather (at Starbucks, of course, over coffee) to petition national politicians to "Fix the Debt" and "find common ground" on the fiscal cliff.  More:

Schultz told CNN earlier this month that he believed the failure to reach a deal has created uncertainty among consumers and businesses and risks hurting the economy. "This single issue has a seismic effect on the rest of the world," he said.

Now, we all know that debt comes from two things: too much public spending and/or too little tax revenue.  And the fact that Starbucks is a notorious tax dodger means that it increases government deficits around the world. What a self-serving hypocrite! 

Boycott Starbucks!

UPDATE (01.01.2013): Thank goodness Paul Krugman was having none of Howard Schultz's inspid insistence on "bipartisanship" to solve the "fiscal cliff" dilemma, pointing out that all the concessions have been one-sided -- from Democrats. 

Any parent with children knows what happens when you give in to their irrational demands and tantrums: the tantrums never stop, and you continually lose ground in an attempt to be "reasonable."  Today's Congressional GOP is like an unruly, spoiled child who doesn't know what's best for itself, much less the country.

Starbucks makes political push on fiscal cliff

By Poppy Harlow and Rich Barbieri

December 26, 2012 | CNN

URL: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/26/news/companies/starbucks-fiscal-cliff/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Reagan on Social Security and the deficit

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.  Here's what the Gipper had to say on October 7, 1984 in Louisville, KY:

"Social Security has nothing to do with balancing a budget or erasing or lowering the deficit."  

Quick, somebody tell Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson and the "Fix the Debt" CEOs!  

[HT: Exiled]. 

Ronald Reagan: "Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit."

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November 5, 2012 | YouTube