(5/16/2005) I have frequently heard Bush say "We want to make sure that everyone who wants a job has a job.", but almost everything he has done has had a negative impact on job creation. Most people would call this type of contradiction "hypocrisy".

To see Bush's hypocrisy about creating jobs in America just look at his record. For example, Bush has been encouraging, and his policies have been promoting, the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to other countries. He is for increasing immigration, and he wants to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. He is against raising the minimum wage, and many Republicans want to do away with the minimum wage. He wants to expand NAFTA to thirty more poor countries with CAFTA. He gives tax breaks to the very rich and lies to middle class workers about who really benefits from these tax cuts. He refused to extend unemployment benefits despite the fact that there is plenty of money in the account. He has spent all the Social Security surpluses, and now he is running around the country claiming that Social Security is in crisis. Finally, he signed a Medicare bill that is loaded with pork, full welfare for big corporations, and that is designed to bankrupt the Medicare system.

When Bush stole his way into office in 2000 this country had the lowest unemployment in 50 years, and within two years his policies have managed to put over 2 million people out of work. Although the unemployment numbers have been improving recently there are still around 7 million people without jobs, or with temporary jobs. Also, the new jobs being created are mostly low wage, low benefit jobs in the service sector. In fact, the two biggest employers in the U.S. are Wal-Mart and McDonalds, and both of these companies have low wages, low benefits, low skilled workers, high worker turnover, and little opportunity for advancement.

Clearly Bush is not sincere, and his words about jobs ring just as hollow as his words about balanced budgets, or who benefits from his tax cuts, or his reasons from going to war in Iraq, or just about anything else he says. Yesterday I heard Bush say "More Americans are working than at anytime in our history.", and that is probably true from a pure numbers perspective, but it is misleading about the true nature of the employment problems his polices have helped to create.

The key to creating good jobs in America is simple and includes the following policies:

• Keep the tax system highly progressive.

• Penalize companies who outsource their high tech jobs to other countries.

• Repeal NAFTA and reward companies who create high wage manufacturing jobs in America.

• Penalize companies that re-incorporate offshore so they can avoid paying U.S. taxes.

• Raise the minimum wage to a living wage amount.

• Withdraw from the WTO.

• Stop electing corporate puppets like Bush to office.

George W. Bush and the GOP are against all these ideas, and especially the last one, therefore they are against creating good jobs in this country. The GOP wants to make the super rich richer, and that is it; screw everyone else.