Cantor blasts Obama for encouraging job creation in Chamber speech

[ProSense]

Cantor blasts Obama for encouraging job creation in Chamber speech

by Jed Lewison

They hate him so much that they even get mad when he encourages businesses to invest in America:

(House Majority Leader Eric) Cantor told reporters Tuesday that if given the opportunity, he will explain to the president that businesses do not have a “responsibility” to the nation or to the government in the way Obama explained in his speech to the Chamber of Commerce earlier this week.

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“That’s not how it works,” Cantor said. “Because Washington says so — that business or anyone should respond as far as spending money — it’s just anathema to the way I think America works…Washington doesn’t just wave a magic wand and necessarily, business creates jobs.”

Cantor must have been watching an imaginary speech in his mind, because what President Obama actually said was that when businesses support the middle class, everybody gains. He encouraged them to invest in America instead of shipping jobs overseas. In Obama's own words:

If we as a nation are going to invest in innovation, that innovation should lead to new jobs and manufacturing on our shores. The end result of tax breaks and investments can’t simply be that new breakthroughs and technologies are discovered here in America, but then the manufacturing takes place overseas.

What Obama said is indisputably correct. The fact that Eric Cantor disagrees is yet another illustration of just how completely the GOP has lost its shit.

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[Arkana]

1. Then how DOES it work, Mr. Cantor?

Maybe if you and your GOP colleagues weren't so busy using your newfound power to investigate President Obama's dirty Kleenexes, redefine rape, or ban federal funding for abortion, you'd find the time to get around to showing us! After all, isn't that what the fucking idiots who put you in power put you there for?

[JuniperLea]

2. Oh, for the love of Pete!

Can they get any more foolish?

[Swede Atlanta]

3. Therein is exposed the hatred for America.......

The Republicans could care less about working class Americans or American interests unless they are the profits of American-based corporations.

They think it is perfectly fine for a company to offshore jobs and drive sustained or an increase in our unemployment if it drives corporate profits.

They are profit whores that will be damned at the day of judgment to their big surprise.

[KT2000]

4. Doesn't incorporation

include the idea that they are supposed to benefit the greater good?
Though it is not enforced, I always thought that the benefits enjoyed by corporations must be balanced with their efforts to work for the greater good. When a judge sees that a corporation does not abide by their articles, the corporation is supposed to be voided.

But come to think of it - that is what I learned in school along with other myths.

[krobar659]

5. Tax Breaks to big business and the rich

I thought that extending the tax breaks to the rich and to big business was so that they could create new jobs?

[ProSense]

6. That was then.

Today, that's preposterous. In fact, it seems the whole notion that businesses are supposed to create jobs is now unacceptable.

Welcome to DU.

[tularetom]

7. Eric Cantor is the slimiest piece of shit in a party full of them

You just know high school for him was just one uninterrupted wedgie.

[lunatica]

15. LOL! He does have that pained look doesn't he?

[ClassWarrior]

8. K&R for publicizing the blind bitterness.

NGU.

[yellowcanine]

9. We should send him tweezers with instructions on removing the burr from his butt.

[applegrove]

10. Those uber corporate rich want to divorce themselves completely from the average american.

What a bunch of creeps.

[babylonsister]

11. He encouraged them to invest in America instead of shipping jobs overseas.

And still the rethugs wail. Jeeze. Why can't the majority of Americans see through these clowns?

[jeanpalmer]

12. Cantor has a point

He's just acknowledging reality. That is, businesses look out for themselves, not for the government or the people. If something doesn't increase the bottom line, they don't do it. And since they haven't already done it, it means they don't think it will add to the bottom line. How can Obama not see that?

Appeals to corporate altruism are wasted effort. They show a misunderstanding of corporate thinking, if they've been made sincerely. But rhetoric is an easy "solution" to the jobs problem.

[Supersedeas]

14. He wants it both way: no Government solution but don't ask the private sector for help either

at least, not when you are a democrat

[GrantDem]

13. Why does Eric Cantor hate America and American Workers?