Republicans Ideologically Opposed to Job Creation

I saw a segment on the tube featuring Marco Rubio, a potential Vice Presidential candidate and most likely a Presidential candidate in 2016, elected to Congress from Florida with strong Tea Party support. He was featured at a Ragan Library function escorting Nancy Ragan down the aisle. I suspect the honor of escorting the former First Lady could mean that he may be picking up Ronald Ragan’s mantle. At the podium he talked about government’s proper role and admitted there is one and clearly building infrastructure certainly is a valid government function. He quickly added the caveat however, that funding infrastructure is OK in and of itself but not if the purpose is to create jobs. I am surprised that this was not immediately picked up by the media or at least the progressives.
The statement chrystalizes the conservative position regarding jobs and workers and it confirming the conservative belief that any government attempt to interfere with the workings of a liaises-faire market with the aim of improving the prosperity of the general population is anti-American. An action that is very appropriate by any measure is wrong if the purpose of the action is to improve the conditions of wage earners. The benefit to society should never be a goal but a byproduct of commercial enterprise. Seeing Nancy Ragan on his arm confirms, to my satisfaction anyway, that Rubio is speaking for the Republicans. If this is their ideological position, what happens to the Republican promise made at the last election to put jobs at the top of their list of priorities? They can’t! This explains why all of the Republican focus has been on social issues, nothing to do with jobs and spending cuts, counter to job creation.
So expect a lot of noise and opposition from the right when President Obama unveils his “jobs agenda” whatever it is. The only way he stands a “snowballs chance in hell” of getting anything passed is to come up with initiatives that have another purpose, like improving infrastructure, with job creation as a silent byproduct and totally downplay the job benefit. Also their benefit needs to be so clear that it will be politically impossible to go against it. Otherwise whatever the policy proposed, the cry will be that the initiative, will impact the “job creators” ability to create jobs or that it somehow “punishes “job creators”.
The thing that continues to astound me is how many working people who suffer from this conservative position so vehemently support policies and ideologies that really destroy their chance for prosperity. Talk about “cutting off your nose to spite your face”.