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Old 08-29-2010, 05:58 PM  
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Estimates Say Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-ga...han-obama.html

Nothing is more important to Republican politicians these days than jobs and the deficit?at least according to Republican politicians. As House Minority Leader John Boehner put it in a "major economic address" on Tuesday, President Obama is "doing everything possible to prevent jobs from being created" while refusing to do anything at all "about bringing down the deficits that threaten our economy." Elect Republicans in November, Boehner assured his audience, and we will put an end to this insanity.

There's only one problem with Boehner's message: so far, the things that Republicans have said they want to do won't actually boost employment or reduce deficits. In fact, much the opposite. By combing through a variety of studies and projections from nonpartisan economic sources, we here at Gaggle headquarters have found that if Republicans were in charge from January 2009 onward?and if they were now given carte blanche to enact the proposals they want to?the projected 2010?2020 deficits would be larger than they are under Obama, and fewer people would probably be employed.
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