Non Sequitor from the Right

Senator Dean Heller's Confusion

by Max Johnson
The Corporate Party took to the airwaves this morning in response to the weekly Presidential Address with a schizophrenic message that only confuses the public.  

“The American public and businesses alike are waiting on a plan that can plant the seeds of economic growth and bolster job creation,” Heller said.

A very good start that we can all agree on.  No problem.  I am thinking, "Great, now everyone is getting on the same page here."  Then Heller goes off the deep end changing the subject dramatically.  CNN characterized it with this: "Among suggested solutions for recovery, Heller advocated a balanced budget amendment, more open rules on energy exploration and a repeal of Obama’s sweeping health care reform."  How is this helpful?  What does a balanced federal budget amendment have to do with getting people to work?  If anything any cut to the federal government will just reduce the federal workforce and increase the number of people looking for jobs.

It is like declaring an emergency at the Tom's River nuclear power plant in New Jersey after it is flooded by hurricane storm surge, and then offering a solution of opening up the Arctic Wildlife Preserve for drilling.  Yes, in 15 years, that drilling will replace the power lost because Tom's River is underwater, but in the interim the area around Atlantic City becomes uninhabitable for a century because of radiation poisoning and thousands die.  The solutions being discussed have nothing to do with the problem.  Working on federal debt while we are still in crisis makes no sense.  Energy exploration is a long term issue that will have no impact on the crisis of a lack of jobs right now.  The health care reform law is fully implemented in 2014, and so why is the party of the rich talking about that now?  It has nothing to do with a small business hiring people today.  If anything if the cost of employee health care were taken off the small businesses in America and given to government there would be a massive number of jobs created.  This is an argument for Universal Health Care and not a retreat from the pathetic reform that was passed two years ago.

These guys do not get it.  They seem to be playing for 2013 with a hope there will be a different president in office.  They don't seem to care that we are suffering now, and need immediate help.