How is Bigger Government a “stimulus” for progress?
A major component of Obama’s “economic stimulus plan” is to immediately create 500,000 government jobs.
How is creating a bigger government, a greater tax and deficit burden, a stimulus to the economy?
Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to “Main Street” to lower taxes on individuals and the private sector so as to put spending money back in their pockets and thus creating real jobs and goods and services?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Creating more government jobs just creates more overhead to drag the American economy down.
We need to create value for the economy. Creating jobs which take resources and don't create value is a negative. It would be better for those people to be unemployed, so they could be looking for work which does provide something of value.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
People who gets those 500,000 jobs don't get a paycheck and do nothing with it.
They spend the money. Would you rather have those people collecting unemployment and not working at all?
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Government could benefit America by staying within its constitutional mandate.
Barack Obama and most members of Congress have never read the Constitution or do not understand the intent of the founders to limit the federal government.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
It progresses Adolf Obama's National Socialist movement.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
You Mean Bush's Stimulus plan after Republicans escalated goverment far beyond the solar system!
I say revoke taxes.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
doesn't matter where the jobs are created, as long as people are working and making an income to spend into the economy.
I'm guessing you didn't do very well in econ class.
#1 concern… economy. After that is no longer a concern, we can deal with the other things as they come.
Didn't Ronald Reagan and Bush Sr. create more government jobs by increasing the drug wars? Isn't that what right-wingers want to do by creating abortion bans? Someone has to enforce them. Is that all of a sudden not creating government jobs? Is that all of a sudden making the government smaller?
Must not have been very good in Politics and Histroy class either.
You do realize this is a consumer based economy right? Takes having a job to make money, to buy things to create demand?? You know that demand thing that creates retial sales, factory orders, and jobs?
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
It is just the latest thing we're going to try, to do nothing would be a mistake, and to adopt more tax cuts which got us here and has resulted in all of these job losses, would be insane, even if it would help the rich get richer.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
One of the indicators of economic crisis is that government is the largest sector of employment.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
You are one of those sad PALINites that want YOUR PRESIDENT to FAIL, so you can say I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, yet, when the PRES. FAILS….the COUNTRY FAILS.(the ONE thing we learned from BUSH, JR.)
Why dont you BECOME AN AMERICAN AGAIN? huh? We still love you, why dont you love U.S.? hmmmm?
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
it doesnt help at all its going to be a long 4 years with this person in the white house