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According to various news sources, one of the areas of focus for this meeting was creating jobs. Now this seems rather, well, strange to me. After all, no business, no corporation is going to hire people that they don't need. If there isn't demand for products out there, then these CEO's aren't going to hire. So why is Obama turning to them in some sort of misguided effort to create jobs?
The only way to break this vicious circle lies with Obama and Congress. The government is, as it has always been, the job creator of last resort, so to speak. So why isn't the government coming up with a true jobs creation program? Worse yet, why has nobody in this administration even broached that possibility? After all, it isn't like our infrastructure is in great shape, it isn't. It is one of the worse infrastructures in the developed world.
Turning to CEO's in order to create jobs is laughable. Rather than trying to get corporations to do the government's job, Obama should be advocating for the best solution in this time of crisis, a true, WPA style jobs creation program. Anything else, like this meeting today, is nothing but smoke and mirrors.
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