To restore economy, Bachmann urges Occupy Wall Street to stop blaming ‘job creators’
Friday, November 04, 2011 at 9:33 am
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In the past few days, presidential contender Michele Bachmann has pushed back against the idea that the rich are to blame for the country’s unhealthy economy.
“President Obama joined with the Occupy Wall Street protestors who believe that the problem we face is capitalism, the free markets and job creators,” Bachmann said in a statement Friday. “It’s not.”
Instead, Bachmann says the problem is “crony capitalism,” which she defined in a speech at Iowa State University earlier this week as “forcefully taking your money for the purpose of paying off a politician’s political friends.”
“The problem is one set of standards for individual Americans and another set of standards for those who make political donations to candidates,” she said. “If we are ever to get out of this ditch, President Obama, the Democrats and Occupy Wall Street need to wake up and stop blaming job creators for the failures created by selfish politicians.”
While Bachmann briefly touches on the issue of campaign finance reform, saying that American and “Occupy Wall Street in particular, needs to wake up and stop blaming job creators for the failures created by selfish politicians who wink at their political donors,” she eventually settles blame for the faltering economy on the corporate tax rate and regulatory burdens.
The tax code “contains loopholes that are exploited by companies large enough to hire an army of lawyers,” she said in Iowa. “The United States remains stuck since 1986 in an out of date high corporate tax rate that sent companies fleeing America for a more competitive tax climate.”
Bachmann’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to the Minnesota Independent’s request for comment on Bachmann’s stance on the Citizens United Supreme Court decision or campaign finance reform (this post will be updated if we do hear back).
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Comment posted November 4, 2011 @ 9:51 am
Maybe she should explain how 10 years of Bush Tax cuts and de-regulation has not created any new jobs…this side of the Pacific….
Comment posted November 4, 2011 @ 12:58 pm
Republicans, particularily, Michele (crazy eyes) Bachmann needs to stop refering to rich people and large corporations as “job creators”. We know and have evidence that these people are not creating jobs and corporations do not hire more people as profits increase. It is misleading and a lie.
Comment posted November 4, 2011 @ 1:39 pm
Has anyone noticed of late that the attention has not been on Michele Bachmann???
She is sounding off in order to shift that attention back to her, as if she was still relevant or something of that nature.
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Comment posted November 5, 2011 @ 5:03 am
Is this an official change from blaming “hyper-regulation”?
Comment posted November 5, 2011 @ 6:00 pm
How do you people keep electing a clown like Bachmann!
Comment posted November 6, 2011 @ 8:36 pm
Mark, her district is full of clowns like her. For the most part her base is suburban “Christians.” They vote on faith, not facts.
As for her comment, we need to fight this job creators thing. One thing creates jobs and that is demand for goods and/or services. That is it. So who creates demand, you and I create demand when we go out and purchase said goods and/or services, so we are the job creators. Remember that the next time the wingnut at work starts spouting this nonsense about jobs.
Comment posted November 7, 2011 @ 7:47 am
Doesn’t she mean “jobs to overseas countries with fewer regulations on what we can do to harm employees” and “jobs eliminated so we can have a healthy quarter for shareholders and/or more money for the owners and/or higher bonuses for the top”?
Comment posted November 7, 2011 @ 3:39 pm
How much more do the job creators want before they’ll start creating jobs? What are their demands? Who is handling the negotiations?
Its like Henk was saying. Corporations and individuals will sit on cash rather than create supply (and incidentally create jobs) when they have no faith it will sell. They want to see the demand, they want to see that consumers will buy. Consumers have shown they are willing to spend their savings to buy. Can we have jobs now?
Comment posted November 7, 2011 @ 5:48 pm
Typical Birdbrain comment by Michele.These people are protesting the lack of jobs not being created, despite trillions in tax cuts for the donor class not being translated into payroll as promised by the Orwellianly mis-named job exporters and job destroyers. Deliberately obtuse, as always.
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