To paraphrase that classic Wendy’s hamburger ad, when it comes to the Republicans’ so-called jobs plan, “Where’s the Jobs?

Senate Republicans successfully filibustered President Obama’s American Jobs Act and blocked a vote on a break-out provision that would enable some 400,000 teachers, firefighters and other first responders to get or keep a job. Republicans vow to do the same on an upcoming infrastructure jobs bill and other pieces of American Jobs Act when they come up for votes. Meanwhile, House Republicans have even refused to put the bill to a vote.

Why are they fighting so hard against creating jobs? Because they claim they have a better jobs plan. Oh yeah? Since when is a plan that’s heart and soul is tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, the rollback of essential federal regulations—including Wall Street reform—and the repeal of health care reform a jobs bill?

Take a look at some of these comparisons of the American Jobs Act and the Republican jobs bill.

• The American Jobs Act would create 1.9 million jobs, according to Moody’s Analytics. Moody’s says that the Republican jobs plan won’t “address [the cause of the current weakness] in the short term….In fact, they could be harmful in the short term.”
• The American Jobs Act would enable 400,000 teachers, firefighters and first responders to keep or get jobs. The Republican jobs plan allows the widespread layoffs of those workers to continue.
• The American Jobs Act would put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work rebuilding the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges and modernizing 35,000 schools. The Republican jobs plan lets the nation’s roads, bridges and schools continue to crumble.
• The American Jobs Act helps the nation’s veterans find work by providing a $5,600 tax credit to employers who hire veterans who have been out of work for at least six months. The Republican jobs plan does nothing to help veterans find jobs.
• The American Jobs Act lowers taxes for almost every worker—some $1,500 a family—by extending payroll tax cut. The Republican jobs plan raises taxes for working families by letting the payroll tax cut expire.

Not only does a large majority of Americans—including most Republicans—support the Americans Jobs Act, a recent CNN poll found that 63 percent of Republican voters back the teachers/first responders’ provisions; 58 percent support the payroll tax cut; and 54 percent favor putting construction workers back to work.

That same poll found that 58 percent of Republicans opposed the Republican plan to roll back environmental rules, while another poll found six in 10 Republicans support the Wall Street reform law that the Republican jobs plan would repeal.

Here’s the kicker: According to the CNN poll, 56 percent of Republicans support increasing taxes on people who make more than $1 million a year, a key financing mechanism of the American Jobs Act.

Looks like most Americans can tell the difference between a jobs plan that actually creates jobs and one that is just shadowboxing with the jobs crisis.