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Sorry folks, but Ron Johnson can't help create jobs... because he's the government and the government doesn't create jobs:



Waukesha Freeman Reporter, Troy Laack: Do you envision any kind of incentives for companies that might create large numbers of jobs, particularly here in Wisconsin?


 


Johnson: I do not look to the government-- at all-- to be able to propel job growth.  I mean all those are just temporary in nature... you are kind of robbing Peter to pay Paul... a more familiar term is, you know, picking winners and losers, I mean the government is not very efficient at allocating capital... the government just does not create jobs, its the private sector jobs, so you need to get government out of the way.


Johnson is, once again, forgetting that his job at Pacur was funded by a government jobs grant and that he his company has benefitted from hundreds of thousands in government subsidies that are in place for... drum roll please... job growth. 


But, putting Johnson's hypocrisy over being a corporate welfare queen in the past aside, I tend to agree:  Most corporate welfare intended for job growth is a huge waste of the taxpayer's money.  But, its one thing to say that you don't want to hand out corporate welfare and its quite another thing to say that there is nothing that the government can do to spur job growth.   


Don't worry, Johnson does have one way to help: slash funding for schools and the elderly:



Laack:  Is there anything that you can see that would lead to job creation... is there anyway you can use this format as a bully pulpit to talkd to businesses, companies...


 


Johnson: We have such a huge spending and debt issue in this economy... it creates such a hangover for the economy... its such a drag on the economy, it creates such a high level on uncertaintly and just a total lack of confidence... what's gonna happen in the American economy?  I think its very difficult to get businesses really energenic about investing, which is what they need in order to start creating jobs...so, until people have confidence back, where people start spending and businesses start investing, I think job creation is going to be very difficult.


These statements are breathtakingly absurd and if he can't think of a single thing he can be doing to help spur job growth, besides balancing the budget on the back of the middle class instead of the wealthy, then he, (who was elected when job growth was the #1 issue) should be recalled as well!


The most disgusting thing is that this is the same Ron Johnson who was fighting just a month ago to keep corporate tax breaks in place for corporations that move jobs to China and other overseas locations.  But, in fairness to Johnson, the government money spent on those tax breaks is for jobs in CHINA, not the USA:  He never said he was opposed to the U.S. Government helping create jobs in China!