Why would the GOP care about jobs?
If you keep the jobs scarce, employers can pay labor less. You would then be happy to have a job, ANY kind of job, if you're a worker bee. You will either work harder for less, or you will be unemployed and back to chasing down scraps or working 2-3 jobs to pay the bills. Assuming your state does not provide years of endless government hand outs.
For the past decade it's been an employer's market, and labor's wages and benefits have suffered for it.
