Interesting take on the debate over the job situation in the US.

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/quotes.html

So which argument do you agree with more? Personally I think this highlights how similar the parties really are on most issues and how its mostly a matter of semantics, specific policy, and party loyalty rather than actual ideology, but I want to hear your take.

 

Well Romney was incorrect basically.

The government can do a lot to help create jobs by simply getting out of the way which would technically be a government action. Or they could expand the Federal Government and create jobs so there's really no squirming out of that for Romney.

 

I could reply through the Democratic perspective if I knew Mitt Romney's plan.

It was "Trickle down economics". We gave this a try and have been in the Bush Tax cuts since he took office. Corporate profits are at an all time high right now. Why are wages at an all time low? Proof trickle down economics doesn't work.

But Romney changed his plan again (i think). He is now saying the cuts will be to the middle class. He even admitted in this last debate that Republicans have been, "worrying too much about the elite and not enough about the middle class for a long time" Not fooling anyone (scratch that, it actually is).

Obama has better economic policy. America got strong as an Industrial nation. Manufacturing jobs give people low skill work and office work. Most jobs outsourced are low skill jobs and most people on welfare are low skill workers. Obama is taking a step in the right direction to stop giving deductions to people who send their jobs overseas where the workers don't have to pay American Income taxes. The profits aren't even taxed until they come back into the US, if they do. His policy also gives tax breaks to companies that hire American workers. Republicans already voted this down once saying, "It's just politics".....Outsourcing was an issue long before Obama started attacking it, I'm proud a President is addressing it. Romney of course wants to increase free trade and regulations, aka increase outsourcing.

 

And this is why Obama hasn't made a dent in unemployment.

Even you have to admit that although Romney's plan may not work, Obama's certainly hasn't.

 

Neither adds up very well to be honest.