Finally! A Repug jobs plan: 300,000!!

[boutons_deux]

The Republican plan to eliminate another 300,000 jobs

Because nothing says economic recovery like eliminating 300,000 jobs, Orrin Hatch and Tom Coburn are looking to reduce the federal workforce by that much, in addition to freezing salaries and cutting contract workers and travel budgets.

Under the bill, S. 1476, salaries and bonuses would be frozen for three years, which Hatch said amounts to $140 billion in reduced spending over 10 years.

And I'm sure we wouldn't lose any highly qualified experts who could be earning far more in the private sector but are instead keeping us all safe at FEMA and the CDC. In a wage freeze, it's all too likely that the people who have options leave.

It would also require the administration to cut the size of the federal workforce by 15 percent over 10 years, amounting to 300,000 fewer workers. "This could easily be accomplished through attrition and would save taxpayers over $225 billion over that time," Hatch said.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/04/1003242/-The-Republican-plan-to-eliminate-another-300,000-jobs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos %29

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

lol Orrin Hatch
lol racist Mormon who still supports segregation

[DarrinS]

Losing federal jobs? Darn

[DMX7]

They couldn't care less about jobs.

I think Darrin and them are still looking for Obama's birth certificate.

[4>0rings]

good

[Pistons < Spurs]

300,000 over a 10 year span? Who the hell cares.

I'd like to see a far bigger reduction in federal employees ... at a much quicker pace.

[DarrinS]

300,000 over a 10 year span? Who the hell cares.

I'd like to see a far bigger reduction in federal employees ... at a much quicker pace.

Same here

[boutons_deux]

but you hate-and-kill-govt haters give the big banks, capitalists, and corps a pass.

It's not the 300K fed employees that have bankrupted the govt and run the lower 95% into a deep and long ditch.

You guys aim for the wrong target like dubya aiming for Iraq.

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Employment Summary, Part Time Workers, and Unemployed over 26 Weeks

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/

[ChumpDumper]

They already threw 70,000 construction workers out of their jobs. :tu

[Nbadan]

Don't forget the 10-20 million who lost their jobs under the last GOP administration...

[boutons_deux]

[Our] analysis suggests that unions helped shape the allocation of wages not just for their members, but across the labor market. The decline of US labor and the associated increase in wage inequality signaled the deterioration of the labor market as a political institution.…The de-politicization of the US labor market appears self-reinforcing: as organized labor’s political power dissipates, economic interests in the labor market are dispersed and policymakers have fewer incentives to strengthen unions or otherwise equalize economic rewards.

…[Prior to 1973,] unions offered an alternative to an unbridled market logic, and this institutional alternative employed over a third of all male private sector workers. The social experience of organized labor bled into nonunion sectors, contributing to greater equality overall. As unions declined, not only did the logic of the market encroach on what had been the union sector, but the logic of the market deepened in the nonunion sector, too, contributing to the rise in wage inequality.

http://motherjones.com/print/125892

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Winner-take-all, smash-mouth, kick-butt political economy.

de-unionized, marginalized, isolated labor, for those who still have jobs, loses big, mgmt and investors take all (of the pie).