Jobs Now!

[blindpig]

Enough of this feeble, neo-Raygunesque trickle down horseshit. $50b is a pittance, an insult to the working and unemployed people of this country. Trillions for financiers,what are we, chopped liver?
And running that pittance through the sieve of business will dilute it's feeble effect unto irrelevance.

Nothing would revitalize the economy more than getting people spending, for that we need jobs, millions of them. What is wrong with the New Deal expedient of creating millions of jobs like the CCC and WPA? Where will the money come from? I don't really care, it should come from taxes on the rich or taken from the Pentagon, just print it as need be, they do that for everything else, why not for the crying needs of the people?

Damn near all Democrats look upon the New Deal as the gold standard of Democratic accomplishment, why is that shining example not being emulated by today's Democratic leadership?

The people are waiting.

[jaxx]

1. Jeez

[blindpig]

3. Care to flesh that out?

I'm sure you have some fascinating opinions on the OP.

[Starry Messenger]

2. Sadly it isn't going to happen.

Today's Democratic leadership is neoliberal. We're hosed.

[OhioChick]

4. It's looking that way n/t

[lib2DaBone]

5. Reading the financial pages today.. stimulus needs to be $280 Billion to be effective

.. consensus seems to be that countries that are serious about fighting back against a depression.. need to invest 2% of GDP in infrastructure to have any effect.

Mr. Obama's plan is not bad.. it just isn't big enough to have any lasting effect on the economy. We would need $280 Billion in spending to kick start the economy.

Also, emphasis should be on high speed rail and mass transit. More runways are OK.. but people do not have money to fly , and the corporate CEO's already have all the runways they need.

[bobbolink]

12. He could start by increasing food stamps, which is a HUGE boon to the economy,

and DOUBLING social security which would also have a huge effect.

THEN, a massive low-income housing plan.

But of course, we poor folk don't have any support for that. It's only important what benefits the muddleclass.

[maryf]

13. Human needs?

Who needs em? Everybody. Who deserves them? Everybody.... except those trying to deny far too many of their needs...

[Subdivisions]

6. ...what are we, chopped liver?

Well...yes. We are.

[onethatcares]

7. 30 Billion a MONTH FOR IRAQ, peanuts for us.

then we get ready to bail out their banks.

I was gonna say, write your congresscritter, but we know how that goes.

Now what? More pretty speeches?

[TBF]

8. Pretty speeches are all they have left for us -

if you aren't a CEO in this country you don't count. Frankly I'm surprised they're even bothering with the speeches ...

[Steely_Dan]

15. Yeah...

That pretty much puts it in perspective.

-P

[Octafish]

9. Wall Street got $700 Billion to replace the $700 Billion they stole.

Sure, it's complicated. I'm not a Have-More.

Great post, blindpig. Proud to K&R5.

[blindpig]

10. kick

[maryf]

11. Tax the stock transactions...

and no rebates, tax the rich one percent more and that would help, one percent of a million is 10,000, one percent of a billion is 10 million, that's a lot of jobs ...the people are getting tired of waiting!!

sorry I missed the chance to recommend this!

[Steely_Dan]

14. I Couldn't Agree With You More...

Many of us have been voicing this for months and months now.

It baffles me that the Obama Administration did not prioritize jobs as their first effort. To me, the Health Care issue was one that was going to take a long time to accomplish. A jobs bill that focused on addressing our many infrastructure issues would have been the right call on day one.

-P

[laughingliberal]

16. K & R nt

[leftstreet]

17. Kick

Too late to Rec


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