Friar Bijou wrote:
Where are your vaunted powers of deduction? Surely you can sus out what sort of people might have the power to manipulate employment on a large scale? People who would not really be affected financially in doing so. People who can chose to spend on capital projects or not?
People who are as likely to be Democrats as Republicans? Those people?
Assuming you're speaking about business owners, are you seriously suggesting that they would deliberately choose to not hire people just to prove that Obama's economic recovery plan didn't work? How does that work? "I know! I'll intentionally slow down the growth of my own personal business just to prove a political point. That'll really show them!" Wouldn't a more likely explanation for low job creation rate be something like... oh, I don't know... because Obama's recovery plan included a number of disincentives to hiring new workers?
I know what you're thinking. "But the rich folks can just invest overseas or something, and be
EVIL". Um... But half of all employment is from small businesses, not the big rich corporations I'm sure you're thinking of. Seems unlikely they'd hold off on hiring people just out of political spite. And the evil big corporations are, as I pointed out earlier, as likely to be run by Democrats as Republicans. They're not making business decisions based on politics. They're making it based on their bottom line and returns to their shareholders. If "invest overseas" earns them more money than "expand operations at home", that's what they'll do. And if that's in reaction to anything Obama did, it's not because they want to make Obama's policies
look bad for the domestic economy, but because Obama's polices
actually are bad for the domestic economy.
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C'mon lil' buddy! I have faith in you; you can do it!
Sure. I can do it. I'd prefer not to have to play 20 questions though. Heaven forbid you have a point to make and then actually make it.
Edited, Oct 15th 2015 12:34pm by gbaji