Hayworth: Government Doesn’t Create Jobs, Business Does
The way to revive this sputtering economy is to shrink the size of the federal government and let businesses create jobs, newly elected Congresswoman Nan Hayworth said earlier today.
“To me, the best thing the federal govenrment can do is stop trying to create jobs,” Hayworth, a Republican representing the 19th Congressional District, said before a crowd of business leaders. “We need to let you all do what you do best.
“Government doesn’t create jobs, you do.”
The economy, health care reform, spending cuts, a complicated tax code, national debt and financial reform were among topics discussed at the Business Council of Westchester’s KeyBank speaker series at Abigail Kirsch at Tappan Hill.
Hayworth, a medical doctor, ousted Democrat John Hall in November. It was part of a national wave — one she dubbed as “most remarkable election” — that enabled the GOP to recapture the House of Representatives.
“The American people said they wanted to see a different philosophy in government,” she said.
Her overall message parallels what others from across the country are saying as the president readies for his State of the Union Address tomorrow.
It also comes after the new House of Representatives recently repealed the health care law.
Read more tomorrow in The Journal News.
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It is a shame that Ms. Hayworth voted last week to raise taxes on small businesses that provide health coverage for their employees.
Hayworth gets an F in economics. Government subsidies, tax credits, infrastructure projects, job training programs, and trade policies all help create jobs. Job creation is a partnership between the private sector and government. Why do you think we lost the most jobs under the Bush Administration than any other? Because the Bush Administration catered exclusively to the richest one percent of Americans, while the rest of us were left to fend for ourselves.
I believe Congresswoman Hayworth is just trying to find cover for herself because the Republicans don’t have a jobs bill. They NEVER have a jobs bill. She is quickly looking like a one-term Congresswoman, as are many of the Tea Party freshmen.
Keep it up Mrs. Hayworth!!!! Remember you are advocating for the no longer silent majority!!!!
Really a shame that Ms. Hayworth voted last week to reopen the Medicare “donut hole” for seniors.
she cant be any worse than hall..
Jon Hall would not support billion-dollar cuts in cancer research and immigration enforcement, as Nan Hayworth’s “Republican Study Group” has done.
Pay no attention to NYP—just another disgruntled Hall supporter. Keep it up, Nan!
Collaboration between private, public, labor and citizens has always been the successful solution to creating jobs. Taking any one of these alone is a mistake. Congresswoman Hayworth should work to bring all these parties to the table to grow jobs in NY’s 19th district.
hmmm – hard to see how I can be accused of being a “troll” on a non-partisan newspaper site.
In any event, I suppose someone
even a trollhas to point out that Nan Hayworth voted last week to increase deductibles and co-pays for preventative healthcare visits for seniors.I am new to the district but I can’t for the life of me see why those who support Nan Hayworth seem mesmerized by the statement that government cannot create jobs. If anyone knows anything about history, they know that it was World War II that ended the depression and launched our nation onto a 25 year period of rapid growth and increased incomes for people up and down the income distribution.
The private sector created lots of jobs after 1945 because the government (at all levels) spent a lot of money on roads, schools, hospitals, research, military equipment—even two wars one in Korea and one in Vietnam. Rising levels of government spending made it possible for businesses to be profitable because that government spending put lots of income into the hands of lots of people.
Today, business investment in equipment has been pretty healthy since the bottom of the recession—but that represents 7 % of GDP. To get consumers spending, we need to get people back to work.
How does Nan Hayworth and ANY ONE on this list who supports her agenda think that by firing public sector employees and slashing public sector pensions (and cutting the meat of non-Medicare, non-Social Security, non-Defense spending at the federal level) they will create an atmosphere in which businesses in the private sector will want to hire more people? WHo’s going to buy all those products that private businesses produce if employment is falling and incomes are stagnant?
When the federal government slashes $100 b (or more) don’t you think some people will lose their jobs??
I’ve taught economics for 40 years and I agree with the earlier poster who gave Hayworth an “F” in economics. I would say that she gets an “A” in helping the very rich get richer—which given that she’s one of them is not too surprising.
What is surprising is why so many ordinary people with moderate incomes think that the best way to make themselves more prosperous is to continue shoveling money into the pockets of the richest 1-5% of the people in the country.
The biggest job killer is the huge shift in wealth from the middle class to the top 1% which has occurred over the last 30 years. Right wing pundits constantly chime “class warfare,” but the American middle class is far more productive now than ever in the past and yet their incomes have declined. We are getting ripped off! Since most people have less to spend as compared to what they produce, they are unable to buy the equivalent of what they produce. Eventually, that means that workers get laid off.
The shift in wealth comes from tax cutting at the top, and government cuts to things that matter to middle class Americans, such as education, health care and infrastructure, just to name a few.
Ms.Hayworth wants to believe that the best job creation comes from the American entrepreneurial spirt. (As GW Bush liked to say, “The problem with the French is they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.”). But even entrepreneurs need a market to sell their creative ideas and widgits. If only the top 1% have discretionary spending money, there is no market to sell to. How many iPads can the Hayworth household consume?
“To me, the best thing the federal govenrment can do is stop trying to create jobs.” How terrifying a statement!
After 30 years of steadingly decreasing regulation of corporations along with the lowering of income taxes we were led to the brink of economic catastrophe. And yet Hayworth wants to shrink our Federal Gov’t even further, perhaps, in the words of Grover Norquist, to the size where it “can be drowned in a bathtub”.
In truth, all who voted for her should now be drowning in tears of regret.
I am so upset with Nan Hayworth, she just continues to throw out statements that are idiotic and not thoughtful at all. I think she is a wealthy woman who doesn’t get the whole picture. She just sees what she wants to see and follows the conservatives like a sheep. I think she is about to ruin our lives with the repeal of the health plan and thinks talking about job growth is just from the government. Doesn’t she understand history????? Has she no clue that in order to help anyone that they need to be educated, and in order to do that they have to have a good education.
Where does that come from???? Out of the blue? Pulled out of a hat? It’s about time she listens to her all her people not just the few that voted her in. We all have a voice. She better start listening or she won’t be there for long. Next time she is around in her community I plan to show up and let her know what I think.
When Nan Hayworth practiced medicine, she routinely turned down patients on medicaid.
It isn’t that she doesn’t understand economics. She just doesn’t care.
This is all about government of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy.
And the really funny thing is, they’ve duped a broad swath of the middle class into supporting this. The tea partiers think she’s one of them, and she’s laughing all the way to the bank.
hall was part of the PELOSI team , that has bankrupted our country
to “sal” – Jon Hall would not have voted, as Nan Hayworth has done, to raise taxes on small businesses that provide insurance to their employees. Nor would he have voted, as Nan Hayworth has done, to re-open the Medicare “donut hole”.
The voters gave her enough rope…
Dr. Hayworth agenda is to reduce government spending thereby reducing thr deficit, a fine idea which should have happened starting with the election of George Bush in 2000 and continued with Republicans in control of congress until the midterm elections of 2006. Instead, we got tax breaks, unabated spending and a useless war that did nothing but add to the deficit. Now the new majority, blaming the hapless Democratic congress of the past several years for all the country’s economic woes wants to right the ship and first thing they do is negiotiate extending the tax breaks-great start Tea party.
The data is in and Reaganomics failed in the last decade – tax cuts for the rich not only failed to create jobs but added to the deficit. Bush outspent anyone before him as the deficit grew to record levels. When Sean Hannity was asked why trickle down failed when enacted in 2001 and 2003 under tricameral Republican rule, he said no jobs were created because of 9-11.
Pelosi fared no better – I don’t defend her – but the economy collapsed in 2008 before Obama was elected and his bailouts and stimuli were all just continuances of Bush programs. But the Republicans should never be trusted again after ruining the 2000s for America and designing economic programs that don’t work if we are attacked by terrorists.
Way ti go Nan keep it up
The your enemies are trying there best to put you down, pay no attention to them, they are just unhappy Democrats who can’t believe they lost control of the House.
As I said before you will be a great and US Senator, keep it UP
Before there was the “Oracle at Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
The Legislative Budget is Too Damn High
Poor Mr./Ms. Machiavelli doesn’t even know that Hayworth is a member of the House of Representatives, not a Senator. Maybe it indicates that he/she needs to pay closer attention to the issues and understand what Hayworth really stands for – it isn’t you! Try reading the comments to this article, they contain some excellent information – learn!
machiavelli was a good man once, but now HE is sick and am sorry to say will not be around much longer.
Dear PBOS. Nan Hayworth will be a US Senator within six years, you can take that to the bank.
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Before there was the “Oracle at Delphi” there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli
VJ Machiavelli
The Legislative Budget is Too Damn High
Progressives ? more like Depressives —The Hall supporters won’t give up ..they sit on the sidelines frustrated . Look at them ..pretty sad . They have very few “Stages” left to vent on .
Ruin our lives by repealing ObamaCare? For those who think this, let me remind you that one of the sponsors of the socialized healthcare in Great Britain died today. She couldn’t get the operation she needed in time. Guess her pride stopped her from coming here where she wouldn’t have been put on a waiting list, had her surgery canceled four times, and then got it when she was too weak to survive.