The unemployed can’t get work because there are five people needing work for every job opening.
• Republicans say we should extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. • Embrace laissez faire capitalism. • Supply-side deregulation. • Tax holiday on overseas earnings. • Eliminate corporate income tax. • Complete privatization of the money supply. • Repeal financial reform. • Eliminate new infrastructure spending. • Government out of health care. • Cut minimum wage. • Move K-12 education to the private sector. • Restrict Medicare and Medicaid to only catastrophic health events. • Shorten unemployment insurance to encourage people to work. • Return the gold standard. • Privatize Social Security with cash grant to opt out.
Ideologues stumping to fix the problem without understanding what the problem is.