Republicans and their political windsock of a candidate Mitt Romney have been rallying for the last two years around the completely untrue battle-cry of "Government does not create jobs!"
The problem with this statement, other than the fact that it's untrue, is that now Republicans are attempting to appease their weapons / defense industry employers -- I mean campaign contributors -- and still remain credible as the "deficit hawks" that they falsely claim to be. The military industrial complex has long been the controlling hand that guides our policy making decisions (especially when that decision is to go to war). Beyond the hypocrisy in the GOP's latest spin for the need to increase military spending (production) lies the irony that the weapons / defense industry is a perfect example of how the government does not only create jobs, but floats an entire industry with inflated budget spending. The question is why did Obama not point out this slam dunk of a correlation between two Romney fallacies that in fact disprove one another. During the final minutes of the last debate Romney asserted both the need for increased military production and the "government does not create jobs" line. I think this is because the average american doesn't understand where our weapons come from. The U.S. has extensive and sometimes exclusive production contracts with private companies they call "defense contractors." But I'm not trying to use this occasion to discuss war mongering, greedy, crony capitalist, or the U.S. military industrial complex. I just want to point out that, other than the hundreds of examples of how and why government investment creates jobs, the one industry that Romney is scrambling to invent reasons to increase spending for, exist and sustains thousands of private employees off nothing more than the government itself.
- Dunbar Merrill
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The problem with this statement, other than the fact that it's untrue, is that now Republicans are attempting to appease their weapons / defense industry employers -- I mean campaign contributors -- and still remain credible as the "deficit hawks" that they falsely claim to be. The military industrial complex has long been the controlling hand that guides our policy making decisions (especially when that decision is to go to war). Beyond the hypocrisy in the GOP's latest spin for the need to increase military spending (production) lies the irony that the weapons / defense industry is a perfect example of how the government does not only create jobs, but floats an entire industry with inflated budget spending. The question is why did Obama not point out this slam dunk of a correlation between two Romney fallacies that in fact disprove one another. During the final minutes of the last debate Romney asserted both the need for increased military production and the "government does not create jobs" line. I think this is because the average american doesn't understand where our weapons come from. The U.S. has extensive and sometimes exclusive production contracts with private companies they call "defense contractors." But I'm not trying to use this occasion to discuss war mongering, greedy, crony capitalist, or the U.S. military industrial complex. I just want to point out that, other than the hundreds of examples of how and why government investment creates jobs, the one industry that Romney is scrambling to invent reasons to increase spending for, exist and sustains thousands of private employees off nothing more than the government itself.
- Dunbar Merrill
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Read excerpts from my book, "Crazy Sh*t Republicans Say" here.
