Comments for Republicans Call Obama Policies "Job Killers" Because the Media Might Ask for Evidence If They Called Them "Baby Killers" at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.cepr.net Thu, 23 May 2013 18:52:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/republicans-call-obama-policies-qjob-killersq-because-the-media-might-ask-for-evidence-if-they-called-them-qbaby-killersq#comment-6452 [quote]Average hours per worker is up somewhat from its low-point in the downturn, but it is still far below its pre-recession level.[/quote] Any economist knows that average working hours are down because of job-killing Nanny State health care reform - not a recession. The problem is pre-existing health conditions acquired among those who have been led to believe they are unemployed and then self fulfillingly became unemployable. They will cause a hysterical run on jobs should they be offered and drive up health care costs dramatically - exactly why they're not being offered jobs in the first place. No one wants to hire people made sick by job-killing regulations, although the demand is actually there for healthy employees. The reason employers are not working existing employees more hours per week to compensate for fewer new employees, is to send them a signal as well not to acquire pre-existing conditions, lest they get fired for exploiting more access to health care. Once employees are worked overtime, they get snotty for feeling needed, and start strutting around like risk-free CEOs and Teabagger Governors with full benefit packages that include pre-existing, current-existing and post-existing conditions that threaten the structural integrity of the company and must be dismissed immediately. - izzatzo Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:45:35 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/republicans-call-obama-policies-qjob-killersq-because-the-media-might-ask-for-evidence-if-they-called-them-qbaby-killersq#comment-6449 Its not just on this subject that Republicans get a free pass from an uninquiring press. I watched Texas Gov Perry make a statement on Nightly News Thursday in which he said "The well established fact that raising taxes kills jobs and hurts the economy makes our job to cut state spending even more imperative." Of course, no such "fact" exists, but it has become what my granddaddy used to call an "Irish fact" by virtue of it being something that Republicans think ought to be true, and repeating it so often that most of them believe it is true. - David Sheegog Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:59:55 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/republicans-call-obama-policies-qjob-killersq-because-the-media-might-ask-for-evidence-if-they-called-them-qbaby-killersq#comment-6448 Facts have an empathetic bias. - fuller schmidt Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:48:33 +0100