UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
- Republican politicians admit their top priority is defeating Obama.
- It’s no wonder they fought so hard to cut millions of American jobs and lay off our firefighters, teachers, and nurses. Now they’re pushing the Ryan-Romney budget to kill 4 million more jobs.
- So when they talk about unemployment not improving faster, they’re not complaining — they’re bragging.
- We have a long way to go before our economy’s fully recovered. We could get there faster if Washington Republicans were trying to put Americans back to work instead of making Obama fail.
The 1% & 99%
- When people who do well in America do well by America, we can pay for job creation and put Americans back to work — and that means more customers with money in their pockets.
- But Republican politicians would rather take from working families so the richest 1% can pay even less. They think those who benefit the most should pay the least and need tax loopholes regular workers can’t get.
- Americans are fed up with a complicated tax code rigged to favor the wealthiest few, and politicians trying to keep it that way. The truth is America does better when we all do better.
- As Warren Buffett tells it, the only class warfare in America is being waged by his class — and they’re winning.
TAXES
- We should be putting money in the pockets of the real job creators: the middle class whose spending keeps our businesses thriving and hiring.
- Everyone paying their fair share means America can invest in the things that keep our businesses thriving — maintaining the roads they use, keeping their stores safe, and educating the workers they hire.
- But Republican politicians would rather give more tax handouts to millionaires living off their wealth while making working Americans and struggling families pay more.
- We tried it their way with "trickle down" economics and all we got to show for it are massive deficits and a shrinking middle class. But when President Clinton told millionaires and big corporations to pay their fair share, we got millions of new jobs and strong economic growth.
SPENDING CUTS
- Cutting spending means cutting American jobs — we can’t cut our way back to prosperity. In tough economic times we should be hiring Americans, not firing them.
- They want to lay off the Americans who keep our country running — the teachers who teach our kids, the nurses who keep us well, and the cops who keep us safe.
- When politicians cut investments in America, Americans lose their jobs. This takes away customers from our stores and money from our pockets — and that means less hiring everywhere.
DEFICIT
- The best way to handle our debt is to put Americans back to work. That’s what families do when they’re working off a debt — they work more.
- It’s simple math: more tax giveaways for the 1% that don’t create jobs mean less investment in the things that do.
- Let’s be honest here: They’re not serious about deficits. Otherwise they wouldn’t have fought so hard for the Bush tax cuts and two unfunded wars behind the record deficits we’re dealing with today — and they’d get rid of tax giveaways for millionaires and big corporations right now.
- The reality is that they’d rather gut Social Security and Medicare than make millionaires and big corporations pay a few more cents on the dollar in taxes.
REGULATIONS
- Freedom doesn’t mean playing the game without rules or a referee — that’s just the freedom to cheat. The laws we put in place help responsible businesses succeed by doing the right thing and hold reckless corporations accountable.
- What’s keeping us from creating jobs isn’t that we need dirtier air and water, more reckless Wall Street banks gambling with our retirement, and more dangerous workplaces.
- What our businesses need are more customers — that’s why employers aren’t hiring — not regulations or uncertainty about regulations.
- Actually, asking businesses to meet higher standards can put people back to work and spark new breakthroughs and new industries.