Job Creators

[HughBeaumont]

5. Belief: It's When Others Do the Thinking FOR You.

What's utterly hilarious about the "job creator" myth is that while people are still buying this bullshit, little do they know (naturally, because their purchased media will never tell YOU) is that the canard was quite literally put to the test in 2004, when BeWsh enacted the Homestead Investment Act of 2004; which, hilariously enough, was part of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. Corporate America, specifically a failed presidential candidate in 2016, failed quite miserably to create any jobs. In fact, LAYOFFS were the result more often than not:

The purported aim of the legislation was to generate economic growth and therefore jobs at home by according corporations a one year “tax holiday” on billions in overseas profits they had stashed offshore.

The result was a $265 billion corporate giveaway.

The windfall was supposed to go toward research and development, and other job-creating endeavors.

Instead, almost all of it was put into stock buybacks as a way of funneling cash to stockholders, these prominently including CEOs.

Never mind that the bill prohibited such buybacks.

Hewlett-Packard saved more than $4.3 billion and put more than $4 billion into stock buybacks. It laid off 14,500 workers.

To make it all even uglier, Hewlett-Packard lobbied for the Homeland Investment Act as a member of something called the Homeland Investment Coalition—this at a time when the “war on terror” was intensifying and the word “Homeland” made everyone think of national security.