Job is the engine to economy and the essensial factor to maintain a solid middle class in socieity.
So it all comes down to who can create jobs and who want to bring jobs back to USA.
GOP's way is not going to work since this bad economy is not caused by rich people having not enough money to invest but by ordinary people having no money to buy. The situation is similar, though not equal, to that in the 1929's Great Depression.