Despite unemployment, jobs aren't front and center in national discussion
With 290,000 new jobs created last month, the economic recovery can no longer be described as jobless. Yet more than 15 million Americans still don't have jobs. How do you send a "we care" message under these circumstances? From Capitol Hill to the White House, nobody in either party is doing very well at it.
President Obama's visit to a Buffalo factory this week, one of his occasional high-visibility dips into the jobs issue, is striking because jobs are so seldom front and center in the national discussion these days. The word "jobs" hasn't appeared in the title of a weekly presidential address since last Dec. 5. Out of a dozen new laws in "featured legislation" on the White House homepage, there's only one jobs bill (two if you count a "Cash for Clunkers" extension from last August). Events and blogposts by Vice President Joe Biden or White House staff do not count. Only the president can stamp an issue "priority," and that hasn't happened since he signed the stimulus bill 15 months ago
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6 comments:
The feds have done all they can do. You toute the stimulus bill as being soooo massive. The stimulus was the focus/fed solution for job (whether you agree with the strategy or not). Now we are all simply waiting to see if that stimulus successfully bakes into a tasty cake or falls flat. But in a free market economy, the Feds don't have much else they can do. And if they did do something, you would cry "federal socialist takeover"
They could stop the illegals from taking the few jobs that are availiable if they WANTED TO.
The employers are just as much criminals as the illegals. Except many of them don't have brown skin, so we don't want to demonize them.
11:02
The Feds have compounded the problem with the stimulus. When they borrowed 800 Billion dollars to support government workers, they sucked the credit market dry.
Government cannot creat jobs! Ever!
The private sector is the only place where jobs are created.
Obama is attacking the private sector with his marxist policies.
5:23 you are full of crap. Now I'm not here to argue whether stimulus was right or wrong. But the credit market was bad well before the stimulus package was passed. And government stimulus in some form was being touted by everyone, not just Obama. Stop writing your revisionists history according to ideaology. Lets use facts atleast sometime.
Expanding the monetary base (printing money) is not an answer to a deflationary recession. It will turn the recession into a hyperinflation.
There is too much easy money for the rich. The working class people's money is now worth less than a year ago.
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