Corporations say that these changes are necessary to help them create jobs, but as James Moran pointed out, the truth is that corporations already have the resources necessary to create jobs, but are refusing to pitch in. They want those extra profits to go to the top 1 percent, not to create jobs for working America.

Corporations aren’t on strike. They’re holding a lock out. Americans want to work. Corporations have enough money to hire every single American looking for work, but they’re refusing to allow Americans to walk in the door.

The Obama plan would cut the amount of money going to Social Security and slash Medicare benefits. The Rebuild the American Dream Framework from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, however, would create jobs without sacrificing Medicare or Social Security.

Joe Heck’s political career has been funded by corporations that concentrate wealth in the hands of their top executives instead of creating more jobs… and now, Heck is working to give those corporations, and their fat cat executives, special permanent tax breaks. Heck has his job in Congress, and his financial elite friends are raking in the cash. Keeping that dirty arrangement going seems to be the only jobs plan Heck is willing to consider.

“No offense to my colleagues here, but we’ve created a caucus for just about everything under the sun except creating a job.” — Republican Representative Reid Ribble, March 29 2011 This was the claim made by Reid Ribble in announcing his new Congressional Job Creators’ Caucus. But is Ribble really the first member of Congress [...]

Among the proposals of the Spending Reduction Act is the elimination of over 300,000 federal jobs – 15 percent of the civilian employment currently in the budget.

Mike Coffman introduced H. R. 270, a bill that would force 2.75 million workers into unpaid layoffs in a time of high unemployment.

“The duties currently imposed by the United States were set in an era during which high rates of duty were intended to protect production of footwear in the United States…. Footwear duties, which are higher on lower price footwear, serve no purpose…” –

The way our economy is set up now, if American corporations really want to ship all their factories and jobs overseas, they can. But should the government reward that behavior? Under the tax code, that’s just what the government does today. Corporations today can get tax deductions and tax credits for firing American workers and [...]

The supposed “hiring freeze” is less about fiscal responsibility than it is about a transfer of power away from democratically-established public institutions, into the corporate realm.