{"id":6887,"date":"2012-01-24T00:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:04:24","slug":"agent-orange-lies-about-jobs-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/agent-orange-lies-about-jobs-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Orange Lies about Jobs Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Would you believe that the reason the unemployment rate is so high is that Senate Democrats have obstructed all the many Republican jobs bills that passed the House?&#160; If you believe Speaker John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, that\u2019s what has happened.&#160; But believing Boehner is a very bad idea, because John Boehner is a liar, and here is the proof that he is lying.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"BonerOrange\" alt=\"BonerOrange\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BonerOrange.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"379\" \/>I keep hearing this ridiculous canard in Republican debates and now from John Boehner about the alleged jobs bills the Republicans have passed that the &quot;Democrat Senate&quot; refuses to act upon. Since I watched the better part of their activity in real time, I know this is a lie. But most people aren&#8217;t obsessive-compulsive about government and politics and might not realize just how much of a lie it is. So without further ado, let me debunk this claim made by the disingenuous Speaker of the House\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8230;To make sure they back up their public claims with what might appear to be &quot;fact&quot;, they&#8217;ve built a page on the House of Representatives site with a list of their so-called jobs bills [GOP delinked], which number 27 and not 30 as the Speaker claims. What follows is a list and a brief explanation of why they are not jobs bills. Feel free to share it widely with your friends who might be inclined to believe Mr. Tobacco Lobbyist Check Distributor without questioning it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><span><strong><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">HR 3630 &#8211; The Middle Class Tax Relief &amp; Job Creation Act of 2011<\/font><\/strong><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> &#8211; This bill does indeed extend the &quot;docfix&quot; and unemployment insurance for a year, but with a hefty price [GOP delinked]. <\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; padding-left: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In addition to freezing federal workers&#8217; pay for three years, it requires issuance of a permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline in advance of the proposed routing by Nebraska, suspends the newly-issued mercury regulations and extends 100% expensing of business equipment (including private jets). Another so-called &quot;jobs bill&quot;, HR 1938 [GOP delinked], was passed giving a November 1, 2011 deadline for the Keystone pipeline.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">With regard to unemployment insurance benefits, it cuts the 99-week maximum down to a 59-week maximum by mid-2012, allow states to drug-test UI recipients, and allow states to reduce state unemployment benefits and substitute federal funds. It also cuts funding for key provisions of the Affordable Care Act coming online, and adds the requirement to welfare payments that EBT cards cannot work in strip clubs, liquor stores and casinos.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Provisions were included to auction more broadband spectrum and reclassify the 700mhz D Block as public safety broadband use only, which would be a huge payoff to Verizon Wireless lobbyists, who <\/font><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_2008_wireless_spectrum_auction\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font color=\"#0066cc\">won that block with requirements<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/font><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> that it remain open, after Google challenged the auction process. <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">It would force Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to pay increased guarantee fees similar in scope to those due from large banks as a part of the Dodd-Frank Act, means-tests unemployment insurance benefits and food stamp programs and increases Federal employees&#8217; contributions to their retirement system by 1.5% while freezing pay, so their pensions take a double-whammy. <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Finally, it repeals the new timing rules for estimated corporate tax payments for companies with assets of $1 billion or more so that they can use payments of estimated taxes as a timing tool for fourth quarter profit declarations.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">None of the provisions outlined above create jobs. They called it a jobs act, but it was really just an act\u2026 [<span><em>emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/karoli\/gops-claim-house-passed-30-jobs-bills-bogus\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video of Boehner lying.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"+id+\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjMxNjgtNTM4ODU?color=006699\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed target=\"_blank\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjMxNjgtNTM4ODU?color=006699\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"clembedMjMxNjgtNTM4ODU\" align=\"middle\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" target=\"_blank\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now, I included the author\u2019s coverage of only one of the bills that Boehner has lied about.&#160; The author goes on to debunk all the rest, s I encourage you to click through for the rest.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The truth here is that Republicans have blocked virtually every measure to help the economy, and with it, the availability of jobs.&#160; What they have not blocked outright, they have watered down and directed resources to millionaires, billionaires, and corporate criminals, instead of jobs.&#160; They have intentionally sabotaged the economy, because the better America does, the worse their chances of lying their way into power, a catastrophic fate for the US.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you believe that the reason the unemployment rate is so high is that Senate Democrats have obstructed all the many Republican jobs bills that passed the House?&#160; If you believe Speaker John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, that\u2019s what has happened.&#160; But believing Boehner is a very bad idea, because John Boehner is a liar, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/agent-orange-lies-about-jobs-bills\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-6887","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\/6887","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=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}