Senate Republican Jobs Plan

May 03, 2011

This is a pro-growth, pro-jobs plan that will create the environment necessary to get Americans back to work and ensure that American businesses are competitive globally

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) unveiled the Senate Republican Jobs Plan, a blueprint Senate Republicans developed to create private sector growth and strengthen the economy.

“This is a pro-growth, pro-jobs plan that will create the environment necessary to get Americans back to work and ensure that American businesses are competitive globally,” said Portman, who led the GOP conference in the development of the plan after speaking with small business owners, workers, and economic development groups in each of Ohio’s 88 counties.

“Families and small businesses are weighed down by record debt and deficit, high taxes, burdensome regulations, and a costly health care plan that raises costs and reduces coverage. This approach by Washington adds uncertainty for investors and costs for job creators. The Senate Republican Jobs Plan puts us on a path to an environment where families and small businesses can succeed, not just get by,” Portman said.

The Senate Republican Jobs Plan focuses on budget, tax, regulatory, workforce, trade, energy, and health care proposals that form the basis of a pro-growth plan to foster American private sector job creation and turn the economy around.

“In contrast to the plan proposed by Senate Republicans, Washington has turned to more government spending, higher taxes, while pushing for overly burdensome regulations on job creators and manufacturers – slowing our economic recovery. We’ve already learned from experience that we can’t spend our way to prosperity. Instead, we must encourage employers to invest in their companies, hire new workers and enable them to compete globally, which is what the Senate Republican Jobs plan will do,” Portman added.
http://portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=a7d8ce...

Senate Republican Jobs Plan
(overview in one page)

Senate Republican Jobs Plan
An outline for creating American jobs and prosperity
(longer, more detailed version--4 pages)

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Permalink Reply by Nancy on May 3, 2011 at 8:01pm

This sounds good; time will tell!

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Permalink Reply by Javad Parvez Hakim on May 3, 2011 at 9:25pm

The problem is he has no proposals for reducing the budget, only for cutting taxes, which will make the deficit larger without any spending cuts.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy on May 3, 2011 at 10:12pm

In the long form proposal, the Senate Republicans said this about spending:

*Require a Statutory Spending Limit. This proposal would set up a statutory process that provides a budget strait-jacket so that Congress is forced to make difficult decisions each year to live within its means, as every American family must, and turns toward a path of fiscal balance.

*Cut Spending to Immediately and Substantially Reduce Deficits. Freezing existing spending as the President has proposed is an inadequate measure of fiscal restraint. We must cut spending relative to current levels to make a down payment on future spending restraint. This effort should also involve reforms to control entitlement spending and strengthen these programs for future generations.

These comments do seem a bit "general" with nothing specific as to how they exactly plan on cutting spending (look what happened just a few weeks ago; thought we were getting billions cut, only got millions cut).

I look at this as at least it's a start--lets hope that they can formulate some more specific ideas for America to consider.

P.S. Yes, I do realize that the chances of them getting any of their ideas passed in the current Senate are basically non-existent; I do however appreciate the fact that they are attempting to address some of the concerns Americans have been speaking out about.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy on May 3, 2011 at 11:46pm

Here's another thought--this proposal is vague so as to appeal (on a broad spectrum) to the GOP's base in the hopes of getting more GOP Senators elected in 2012? No real game plan/plan of action; just generalities that sound good so it looks like they are listening to America?