Whither, Republicans and Tea Party politicians?

Driving around yesterday, for work, naturally I had NPR on the radio and it was virtually entirely coverage of the previous night's election, again, naturally.

I'm on overload, I think.  It doesn't take long to get there.

Repeatedly, though, I heard that John Boehner and his Republicans in the House want to cut federal spending in order to create jobs.

And I'm all "You gotta' be kidding."

How does that work?

What economist ever told anyone, let alone them, that that could or would work?

Where are they going to cut spending?

You know they won't touch one of the biggest fatcats in the budget--the one that needs to be cut--and that is Defense Spending.

They aren't going to get us out of Iraq or Afghanistan or Japan or Italy (why are we still in Italy?) or Germany or anywhere else.

And sure, it was just announced that we're about to spend over one-half trillion dollars (511 billion dollars, to be specific) to expand the Kabul, Afghanistan embassy but they won't suggest cutting that, we know that.

So forget all that, right off.

Let's try to think the way they do, difficult and/or painful as that might be.  What would they want to cut?

And of course the answer comes up right away! 

SOCIAL PROGRAMS!!   Of course!!

Cut welfare!  Cut Social Security!  Cut anything "soft-headed" that those pesky Liberals and "Lefties" might like, want, value or trust!  Sure!  That makes sense!

But since when would cutting ANY of those things lead to more work and jobs elsewhere?

I thought if you maybe tried to fix our infrastructure (highways, bridges, sewers, etc.), that that might create jobs. 

And, of course, that's what the last Congress and this president were trying to do.

But no, cut government!  Cut government spending!

Tell me, anyone, what do you cut in this government's budget to create jobs?

I just don't see it.

These people know we're in a deep recession, right? 

You think they read the papers?

Link:  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/03-5