Sunday, January 03, 2010


Will latest jobs bill really produce jobs?

WASHINGTON – When the Senate takes up a jobs bill later this month or early in February, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government tens of billions of dollars further into debt.

Republicans scoff at the "Jobs for Main Street Act" title that House Democrats put on their $174 billion package last month. They refer to it as "son of the stimulus," the $787 billion economic recovery plan of nearly a year ago that they say was ineffective at producing jobs.

In its last vote of 2009, the House narrowly passed the bill, 217-212, without a single Republican supporter.

Democrats tick off the job prospects from the House bill's $75 billion in infrastructure and public sector spending: tens of thousands of new construction jobs, 5,500 more police officers, 25,000 additional AmeriCorps members, 250,000 summer jobs for disadvantaged youth, 14,000 part-time jobs for parks and forestry workers.

... they won't ...
... is better than nothing, but is not enough ...
... takes care only of bottom of the hill physical work ...
... but does not help with the "big picture" ...
... looks like the 10 millions mcdonald jobs at the reagan times ...
... "politics" ...

... why not create government telecommuting jobs ...
... why not give tax credit for telecommuting employees and contractors ...
... why not give tax credit for "in home" doctors visits ...
... why not give tax credits for "remote diagnostics" ...
... why not give tax credits for "railroad" infrastructure ...
... or tax credits for atomic railroad engines development ...





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