{"id":2994,"date":"2010-09-28T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2010-09-28T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:23:09","slug":"pledge-or-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/28\/pledge-or-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Pledge or Plague?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Republican Party keeps trying to find something new\u2026 anything at all\u2026 in their propaganda proclamation, running the numbers reveals that the implementing the Republicans\u2019 proposals well cause economic damage and job losses that are both immediate and severe.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"republican-lies\" House Republicans\u2019 gimmicky new \u201cPledge to America\u201d repeatedly refers to itself \u2014 including on its cover page \u2014 as a \u201cnew governing agenda \u201d [GOP delinked] to \u201cset a different course\u201d for the country. Nonetheless, it has come under withering criticism from right, left, and center for being little more than regurgitated rhetoric and repackaged failed GOP ideas.<\/p>\n

While Republican leaders have tried to sell the originality of the proposal, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) \u2014 the number three House Republican \u2014 couldn\u2019t seem to decide whether his party\u2019s Pledge was new or old yesterday during an appearance on Meet the Press. At first, he insisted that the Pledge does indeed have \u201cnew ideas.\u201d But just moments later, after being pushed by host David Gregory, Pence admitted, \u201cWhat we have in this proposal is not necessarily new<\/a>\u201c…<\/p>\n

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As for new ideas, Pence\u2019s citation of \u201cending bailouts and cutting spending\u201d is pretty pathetic\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Even with my very limited training in economics, I knew it would do harm, because tax cuts for the rich yield only fifty cents of economic activity for every dollar cut.  But I has no idea just how bad, until I sat this Keith Olbermann interview with Heather McGhee.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right implementing this will result in a first year GDP loss of $171 billion and 1.1 million jobs.<\/font><\/p>\n

Of course the rich will get richer.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Republican Party keeps trying to find something new\u2026 anything at all\u2026 in their propaganda proclamation, running the numbers reveals that the implementing the Republicans\u2019 proposals well cause economic damage and job losses that are both immediate and severe. House Republicans\u2019 gimmicky new \u201cPledge to America\u201d repeatedly refers to itself \u2014 including on its […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}