Elected By Promising Jobs, Cutting Jobs Once In Office

By Dave Johnson

Created 03/04/2011 - 1:14pm

See if this sounds familiar. Get elected by promising jobs. But once in office push through tax cuts for the wealthy and their corporate masks, and cut jobs. Then use the resulting budget deficits and jobs crisis to whip up pubic panic. Finally, use that panic to push through "solutions" that have little to do with jobs or budgets and everything to do with consolidating wealth and power. How often to you see that formula played out?

Promise Jobs

In 2010, Republicans around the country were elected after running hundreds of millions of dollars in ads (paid for largely by billionaires and big corporations) promising jobs (and promising to protect entitlements [1].) They promised this because poll after poll after poll shows that the public wants the government to focus on jobs and protect the things government does for We, the People.