From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/24/republican-jobs-bills_n_1687647.html.
Economists say Republican Jobs Bills won’t Actually Create Jobs. They are narrowly targeted and are really special interest driven. Jobs are a second or third-order effect, not the main priority of the bills in the package.
At the heart of the GOP jobs package is a push for rolling back regulations … gutting environmental laws that regulate clean air and water … (ie. regulation of greenhouse gases and pesticide regulations.)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that just under 16,000 jobs, or 0.4 percent, were lost because of government regulations. Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, warned that “If you increase employment but you have a lot more sick people, you have to ask yourself, ‘What’s the trade-off?”
“It’s just hard to believe that paperwork represent a major impediment to starting businesses … we had lots more business creation in the late ’90s.”
(Remember the 90’s? When Clinton was President? Surpluses…not deficits…then along came Bush and…well we all see what that resulted in. So lets do it again!!!)