I am sick and tired of the coddling of the so called "Job Creators". Republicans push the narrative as though they create jobs out of thin air and they must be wooed and cajoled or they will take their ball and bat and go home. Somehow the Democrats also play along and nurture the narrative rather than challenge it.
Folks, these businesses are job creators the same way hamburgers are hunger creators. Jobs and hamburgers are created to fill a need. Absent the need they won't be created. Hamburgers did not create the hunger, hunger created the hamburger. Businesses did not create the job, the demand for goods and services created that job. That is the free market, Adam Smith and the invisible hands for you.
Absent the ability to buy the goods and services proffered, there ain't no jobs getting created. If Dewy Cheatam and Howe are not creating the job it will be created by Tom Dick and Harry and co.
There is no lack of capital. Private companies are sloshing with two or three trillion dollars [*1] worth of cash, sitting in the sidelines, without investing because they don't see the demand picking up. Piling tax cuts on top of tax cuts for decades has not solved any problem and has ballooned the national deficit.
It is high time we start pushing back against the morons who defend the tax cuts for the wealthy by saying, "I have never been employed by a poor person. You tax them, I lose my job". We need to educate him/her, "Yes, you are being employed by lots of poor people collectively. It is the money they pay that pays your salary and your boss' profits".
It is also high time we fight the discrimination against the earned income and preferential treatment of the investment income. How can the blood sweat and tears of ordinary folks be treated worse by our government than the pounds of flesh collected by the Shylocks?
[*Citation 1] U.S. corporates held a total of $1.48 trillion in cash as of June 30, up 2 percent from the previous record $1.45 trillion at the end of 2012.
Add private small businesses, private equity, profits stashed abroad, they are sitting on two or three trillion dollars of money without investing or "job creating".