So, again, the Republicans are simply liars, or know-nothings, or both. They've all been claiming that the reason there are so many unemployed in this country is because of federal regulations. The President, sadly, chimed in with his agreement - regs kill jobs - when he killed the new anti-smog regulations. In any case, it was a lie. Government regulations are not causing unemployment, unless you consider two-tenths of one percent of all those unemployed to be a significant number.
From AP:
Is regulation strangling the American entrepreneur? Several Republican presidential candidates say so. The numbers don't.
THE FACTS: Labor Department data show that only a tiny percentage of companies that experience large layoffs cite government regulation as the reason. Since Barack Obama took office, just two-tenths of 1 percent of layoffs have been due to government regulation, the data show.We have a problem in this country. We only have two political parties. And while one is somewhat more spineless than we'd like, the other simply lies. And worse, they base their policies - what they're going to do when they come into office - on lies. And the lies, I'm sure coincidentally, usually seem to benefit their big rich corporate donors at the expense of everyone else in the country.
Republicans need to question who's running their party. This is no way to run a country, unless you're intent is running it into the ground.
PS Case in point, John McCain just said today on - wait for it - Fox News that federal regulations are costing us billions of jobs. Which is pretty amazing since we only have a population of 312 million.
