When they take off the blinkers

Starting to wonder: Conservatives aren't addressing rampant unemployment for a simple reason: They can't.

Republicans are unable to create jobs. Not due to any ideology (that just provides their excuses), but rather they lack the tools, the ways and means to do so. Not won't, but can't.

In the recent past, conservative strategy has been to ignore or divert attention from things they can't do or provide, places where they don't have answers or solutions. Yes, in this past election cuycle they've talked about jobs. But only in an abstract sense. Rather then directly addressing the issues leading to rampant unemployment and the loss of available jobs, they spoke of jobs appearing as a benefit of their economic measures, not as part of the machinery of recovery. Fix this, they said (usually something social/cultural or even racial) and we'll have jobs again. Not where we create jobs and much of the social ills are thus corrected.

For example, to create jobs is easy, just get people off welfare. That's capitalism. But not create jobs so people don't need welfare. That's socialism.

When paleo-conservative candidates were asked what federal budget cuts they would make, their typical response was to change the subject by labeling it something else—and throw a temper fit if that didn't work. Once they were elected to office, we now see why they were so evasive: they can't cut the budget. Can't as in powerless, incapable, ignorant. When asked how they would fix unemployment, their nearly uniform response was "fix the budget." When pressed for details, they would lunch into a tirade how it was all the fault of liberal socialism.

Now they're in office. The nation's people demand jobs. Conservative response is to attack human rights using women as an excuse. And jobs? They can't.


Not won't, but can't.