{"id":26967,"date":"2012-03-21T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26967"},"modified":"2012-03-21T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:38:07","slug":"chanting-points-memo-jerbs-vs-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26967","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: Jerbs Vs. Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the facile DFL chanting points sluicing outward from Media Matters For America the Alliance For A “Better” Minnesota this session, perhaps the most galling is “The DFL is focused on jobs, while the GOP is obsessing over constitutional amendments over social issues”.<\/p>\n

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For starters, it’s absurd; the GOP as a rule doesn’t believe government “creates jobs”. \u00a0And as we noted at the beginning of the session, the “jobs plan” contained in Dayton’s bonding bill is really just a “Jerbs Plan<\/a>“, creating a bunch of temporary <\/a>–\u00a0ahem, “Shovel-Ready” – construction jobs (for DFL-up-sucking unions and the state workers that supervise them, naturally). \u00a0As we saw last January, the job numbers themselves make no sense.<\/p>\n

The fact that Minnesota’s unemployment is as low as it is is, in fact, testimony to the GOP’s real <\/em>jobs plan; keeping taxes as low as possible (given an irresponsible and dogmatically partisan \u00a0DFL governor for the past year, and DFL legislatures for the four preceding).<\/p>\n

As to the “social legislation?” \u00a0The Legislative can walk and chew gum at the same time (the fade on “Right To Work” notwithstanding). \u00a0They can do both just as easily as Tom Bakk can propose legislation on the State Beer and whatever else it is he does every day.<\/p>\n

But the real difference is this: \u00a0while the DFL and Governor Dayton propose to “create” temp jerbs, the GOP is out to make Minnesota a place where business can get established, grow and thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the facile DFL chanting points sluicing outward from Media Matters For America the Alliance For A “Better” Minnesota this session, perhaps the most galling is “The DFL is focused on jobs, while the GOP is obsessing over constitutional amendments over social issues”. For starters, it’s absurd; the GOP as a rule doesn’t believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,132,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","category-mn-legislature","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26969,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26967\/revisions\/26969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}