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Saturday, October 16, 2010

This election is simple

Just vote for the candidate who says he or she is in favor of creating jobs.

Posted at 6:47 AM | Permalink

Comments (15)

And consider who wants to spend other people's money trying to create them.

Or consider who wants to spend $1.7 billon on Milwaukie Light Rail suppoosedly creating 14,000 jobs by taking the funding from other jobs.

Neat trick. Pilfer lottery profits, property taxes, parking fees, operations revenue and funding for other projects and call it creation.

Posted by Ben | October 16, 2010 7:22 AM

Or no incumbents

Posted by phil | October 16, 2010 7:43 AM

Or against any that uses the words "sustainable", "bike friendly", "urban renewal", "transit oriented", "bioswale", etc.

Posted by zonedar | October 16, 2010 8:04 AM

You nailed it Jack. We have to listen to it over and over again. Guess what? None of these guys are hiring. Their shtick is getting really really old.

The job of polititians is not to create jobs, but to create favorable conditions for business to thrive.

Posted by Gibby | October 16, 2010 8:05 AM

Sorry Gibby, I think you have it dead wrong -- politicians who think THE job is to make it good for businesses are the problem. The Third World, which America will soon be joining for realz, is full of kleptocrats who see their job as making nice with business.

If you were to boil down the politicians' job into a single "THE job is . . . " I would do it as "THE job of a politician in America is to keep the goose that lays golden eggs (business) alive and laying WHILE making sure to keep the goose in the pen and under positive control, since it will always get into the nursery and crap in kids' mouths if allowed."

The corporate form is like a chainsaw -- it's a very powerful tool that, used wisely, can create a lot of wealth but, when allowed to be deployed by moral miscreants, can do incalculable damage. Politicians need to respect businesses but also to respect how much damage they can do.

Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | October 16, 2010 8:21 AM

George, are you planning to run anytime soon?

Posted by Gibby | October 16, 2010 8:47 AM

When the first mall appeared in my hometown appeared, it was hailed as 'economic development'. A friend of my fathers remarked that economic development was when you took materials and created something of greater value from the raw materials, that adding stores was simply reallocating the existing money in a local economy. Simplistic,yes. A good deal of truth also.
Infrastructure improvements are of little value if the general economy is contracting and there is no effort to change the reality. When we daily export our manufacturing and extraction base around the world, building new roads makes little sense. Improving transit makes little sense. Reroofing a house with the foundation being eaten by termites makes little sense, unless you are addressing the termites.
We aren't addressing the termites..

Posted by Joe Adamski | October 16, 2010 8:57 AM

The pol I would vote for is the pol that has the experience and drive to go after the corporate person-hood.

That has to be done before anything else positive will transpire. I hate to think it will have to wait for a new civilization to arise from the ashes of the old, but it seems the most likely path.

Posted by Lawrence | October 16, 2010 9:16 AM

Crap. Now I'm trying to remember. Was it John Kitzhaber or Chris Dudley that ran a TV commercial saying they were going to create jobs?

Posted by none | October 16, 2010 10:02 AM

The job of politicians is not to create jobs, but to create favorable conditions for business to thrive.

Oh they will. Larger government. They dont have enough of their buddies getting taxpayer money yet.

Posted by Jon | October 16, 2010 11:23 AM

Kripes. Can the election be over so all those b.s. campaign ads no longer pollute the airwaves?

Posted by LucsAdvo | October 16, 2010 1:43 PM

But LucsAdvo, all those ads are creating jobs!!!

I can't wait for the election to be over either. Wish the campaign was a couple weeks long then we vote.

Posted by Darrin | October 16, 2010 3:25 PM

If someone had an initiative to put on the ballot the repeal of mail-in voting, and it passed (which I think it would), then we'd have about four less weeks of electioneering hell.

Posted by lw | October 16, 2010 9:10 PM

Vote for whichever candidate supports creating jobs, and then go back to being poor on November 3rd.

That's what I plan on.

Posted by Andrew | October 18, 2010 3:20 PM

Do they have to be green jobs?

Posted by MJ | October 18, 2010 7:50 PM

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