Human Events screamed, "OBAMACARE: 2.5 MILLION MORE JOBS LOST, ANOTHER TRILLION IN DEFICIT SPENDING."
Investor's Business Daily went with "Creating Killing Millions Of Jobs."
D.C.-elite pundits also ran with this line...
Politico, " Obamacare and jobs: CBO adds fuel to fire, ": "The Republicans just got a big gift from the Congressional Budget Office: It's going to be a lot easier for them to call Obamacare a "job killer.' "
Dana Milbank: "Obamacare's scorekeepers deliver a game-changer": "This will inevitably be a drag on economic growth, as more people decide government handouts are more attractive than working more and paying higher taxes."
Chris Cillizza posted "The worst headline for Democrats this year," and then after clarifications on what the CBO report said, posted "Why the CBO report is (still) bad news for Democrats." It is noteworthy to understand his attitude on reporting the truth:
"My job is to assess not the rightness of each argument but to deal in the real world of campaign politics in which perception often (if not always) trumps reality. I deal in the world as voters believe it is, not as I (or anyone else) thinks it should be."
Regular media around the country picked up the lie.
The Wheeling Intelligencer," Health Law Killing Jobs -- It's the equivalent of 2.3 million full-time positions, feds say."
CNBC, "CBO nearly triples estimate of working hours lost by 2021 due to Affordable Care Act": "A historically high number of people will be locked out of the workforce by 2021, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday."
And of course, all of right-wing radio etc., went with the lie, blasting it out.
"Make Them Work"
The spin that Obamacare reduces "incentives to work" and is a "handout" conforms to the general Republican "make them work" mindset (especially prevalent in the old "slave states"). They believe that Americans are lazy and you have to make them work. They say the government must cut food assistance to make them work. They say the government must cut unemployment benefits to make them work. They say you have to make people less "comfortable" or they won't work.
Of course, Republicans also drive down wages and reduce workers' rights and job safety so many people are forced into terrible, low-paying, dangerous and unrewarding situations. What would have gone to wages or safety can then go into the pockets of a few people at the top.
People don't want to take minimum-wage jobs with humiliating conditions? No problem, drive up unemployment so people are desperate to take anything they can get. Make them work. Make them accept less and less. Use the filibuster to block efforts to do something about offshoring. Filibuster efforts to spend on maintaining our infrastructure. Block efforts to raise the minimum wage. Filibuster efforts to revive long-term unemployment assistance. Filibuster everything that might help people get jobs.
And especially relevant right now: Use "trade" deals to force jobs out of the country, drive down wages and get government out of the way of the billionaires and their corporations.
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