Comments for Senator Nelson Proposes to Reduce GDP by $120 Billion, Eliminate 800,000 Jobs at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.cepr.net Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:25:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/senator-nelson-proposes-to-reduce-gdp-by-120-billion-eliminate-800000-jobs/#comment-1073 Izzatso Izzatso? The biggest free riders are the big corporations who encourage war for their financial benefit, hide income in offshore tax schemes and are prime beneficiaries in $1 trillion in annual health care waste compared to the rest of the developed world. - FoonTheElder Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:11:26 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/senator-nelson-proposes-to-reduce-gdp-by-120-billion-eliminate-800000-jobs/#comment-1003 How many war appropriation bills has he voted for? So those are ok, but keeping jobs in a deep recesssion that the government allowed to happen is too far? - William Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:17:48 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/senator-nelson-proposes-to-reduce-gdp-by-120-billion-eliminate-800000-jobs/#comment-997 Does Sen. Nelson understand that 16% of Nebraska's employees are employed by state and local governments? [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/10-states-where-an-insane-percentage-of-people-work-for-uncle-sam-2010-6#10-nebraska-1[/url] - Tao Jonesing Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:46:40 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/senator-nelson-proposes-to-reduce-gdp-by-120-billion-eliminate-800000-jobs/#comment-986 Any economist knows that many states have become free riders in the deep recession, manipulating the system to get more federal benefits, the same way the unemployed do to get more benefits when they could be working. The states can cut as much as necessary as well because nothing they do is essential. For example, Nelson could sponsor a bill called Free Ride This, requiring everyone to have a gun at all times and eliminate the enormous cost burden of government security at all levels by privatizing it. The savings just from reduced fraudulent unemployment claims through intimidation alone would be worth it, not to mention the effect of the gun sales multiplier to create more jobs. We're lucky to have fine, outstanding senators like Ben Nelson willing to speak out against the moral hazard of free riders bringing down the economy with welfare job handouts like stimulus spending, the same way he did with the health care Cornhusker Con to carve out 100% Medicaid funding by the federal government just for Nebraska. Sometimes tough love looks cruel, but it's really not over the long run. Just look at how well the political contributors of Nelson have held up on their own in free markets with no subsdidies or market manipulation whatsoever. What character. What self sacrifice. What values. Stupid liberals. - izzatzo Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:42:52 +0100