The Jobs Creation Sham!! It's really Disaster Capitalism; Rewarding those who caused the pain.

Another town hall meeting took place, not in Wisconsin, but in West Virginia. I’m featuring it here because it demonstrates how extreme Republicans have taken this bogus “jobs creation” lunacy.

Everything that requires the poor and middle class to take a big hit, to pay for huge corporate tax cuts/anti-abortion/voter ID/union busting, is pure job creation fraud. It’s crazy, but no one is calling it that.

    WESTOVER, West Virginia:  Jobs, health care, it was all on the table Wednesday night where U.S. Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., hosted a town hall meeting.

Here’s the first jaw dropper, and a peak into the Republican Party sell out to business. They seemed to have latched onto the public’s insecurity over jobs, and tying that to just about anything that walks, talks, lobbies or makes a profit, whether it makes sense or not. Like creating...jobs in businesses that pollute:

Mckinley recently introduced a bill in the house that would let states regulate fly ash and coal combustion residue, the byproduct of burning coal. It's a measure he says would save about 100,000 jobs. "The regulatory reform is causing real job denigration. We got to stop this and get control over Washington and its regulatory part, so the private sector can create jobs again," he said. One audience member questioned the potential environmental impacts caused by deregulation.

Nothing extreme about that position? Giving up the environment for "jobs" is only one excuse that doesn't guarantee one job but does assure  health problems and early death for thousands of people. 

But McKinley told the group that he opposed Paul Ryan's "Path" and draconian cuts to Medicare, basically saying what the Democrats have been saying all along. Is this more demagoguery? 

McKinley raised some eyebrows a few months ago when he was one of only four Republican House members to vote against U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's, R-Wis., budget plan. A plan calling for cuts to Medicaid and medicare, McKinley said he won't vote for cuts to those programs.

"I just had some problems of the idea of using the seniors as a way of balancing budget," he said.

Thank you.