Maggie's Farm

Here is another angle from a poster on the Althouse blog:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=9094767760969249922

mccullough said...
"The Dems ideas are bad as well but there is an audience for them. They have no problem with trade and environmental regulations killing jobs. The GOP has no problem with trade killing jobs and did nothing to stop all the regulations that killed off logging and other industries. They draw the line at banning fracking. So the GOP plan is to cut taxes on the rich to stimulate job growth in China and expand lower paying service sector jobs while trying to maintain manufacturing and construction at their current levels and add some jobs to the 1 million workers in oil and gas. For those left behind by the growth in trade and technology, the GOP position is that they should start their own business, join the military that the GOP hopes to expand, or work 7 part time jobs in the vibrant service sector in which Americans will continue to compete with the 10 million illegals the GOP wants to amnesty plus whatever more illegals come walking over the open Southern border. For those in tech, the GOP also plans to issue more H1-B visas so that foreign nationals from India and China drive down your wages or take your jobs. The GOP plans to continue running 500 trillion deficits because tax cuts will eventually pay for themselves sometime starting in 75 years from now.

The Dems plan is to keep adding to the 22 million government jobs (except not adding more jobs to the military) to maintain some semblance of a middle class killed off by trade regulation and environmental regulation and to just distribute more food stamps, housing vouchers, Medicaid, EITC for low wage workers and welfare payments for those who can't find a job in our 21st Century economy. They also will add $1.50 to the minimum wage so that the peasants are placated. They, like their GOP counterparts,will also amnesty the 10 million illegals so that it's even harder for Americans to find low paying service sector jobs. They will pay for part of this increased government spending by taxing more from those who benefit economically from our trade policies. Half of all those who made over $200,000 a year voted for Obama. The rest will be borrowed with deficit spending.

These are the visions of the two major parties. Id say the Dems hold the slightly better hand among the electorate. The GOP can win local and state elections by tweaking some school reforms and cracking down on rising violent crime. But they are done at the national level with their proposals. People realize that with so many low paying service sector jobs that the government has to supplement the low income with food stamps, housing vouchers, and Medicaid. And that government jobs are better paying than no jobs and service sector jobs. The GOP's policies don't produce a vibrant private sector that produces enough good paying jobs in the US. And people aren't going to work 5 jobs and compete with illegals for those jobs."