When i was a little kid I remember thinking that to put a light in a room all you had to do was put a switch on the wall and put a light bulb on the ceiling.
Very simple cause and effect.
Flip the switch and voila, there is light.
Some where along the line I learned the reality of what it took to add that
Ight bulb and make the dark disappear.
Not only were there wires that had to go from the switch to the light but there wires from the fuse box tothe switcc.
Plus wires that went from the fuse box to the big wire strung between the poles.
And those wires sometimes went fir hundreds of miles to dams, coal powered generators, nuclear power plants.
And so on.
You get it.
All you see is the switch and the light bulb but there is a whole lot more going on that you don't see.
I grew to call this train of thought the switch and the light bulb syndrome.
When I hear Republican economic plans I hear the switch and the light bulb being offered as a solution.
The light bulb is jobs.
Everyone wants yo put more people to work.
The switch the Repubs offer to hang on the wall is a combination of several things.
Lower corporate taxes, remove any and all environmental regulation, keep paying corporate subsidies (can't have oil companies in need!). Etc..
What they are avoiding is a discussion of the wires.
Trust us, give corporate America more money and you will get jobs.
What they don't care to mention is that that switch was hung on the wall before.
See George Bush economy collapse.
Companies don't hire just bcause they have greater profits and lower expenses.
They hire when there is demand for their products.
The lousy job numbers for May need to be looked at closer.
In a lot of categories jobs were up significantly, Manufacturing, Transportation and Warehousing, Wholesale trade and education.
The big losing segments were Leisure, government and construction (construction often driven by govt.spending).
When govt. doesn't spend it sucks a lot of money directly out of the economy.
To start the upward spiral govt. needs to spend more and hire more.
Austerity is not the answer.
See Greece, Italy, Spain economies and there virtual collapse to see what austerity gets you.
If Republicans get their way, prepare to have the US become the next Greece.
