Isn’t this all exactly what the first stimulus bill did/didn’t do?

Except for this new little wrinkle:

“and special partnerships in which government tries to avert private-sector layoffs by picking up a share of employee wages”

Number 1, scary.
Number 2, there’s no potential for fraud/favoritism there.
Number 3, I thought the problem was that private sector employees were earning too much wages, shouldn’t they all be taking pay cuts? Problem solved.
Number 4, just as soon as night follows day, if the government is paying part of our wages, they will want to set them, just the same as they did with the TARP funds.
Number 5, they really will not stop until the government has taken over every aspect of our lives.

“Other approaches include a 25-cent tax on each stock transaction”

They really do think this is the age of the robber barons don’t they? That there’s some fat, evil, white men smoking cigars in a little room making billions of dollars in the stock market and wiping their butts with poor people. Stock transactions are now done principally by all of us. By our retirement funds and mutual funds, by our pension funds and other institutional investors. If you punish stock transactions you are punishing widows and orphans.

I had to read that line three times so see what I must be missing. It turns out I missed nothing.

But not “troubled” for the same reasons that you or I would be troubled. No. He is troubled because of the potential for further plummeting approval ratings and the resultant expulsion of his lame ass out of office.

“I hope we don’t play around the edges with this and we do what will work. Invest the money now,” said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus. “We have to create jobs, and we have to create them right away.”

This is perhaps the most laughable statement in the whole thing. Wave a magic wand and *poof*, new jobs where none were before.

In order for there to be jobs, there has to be a market that has a demand. If the demand is not met, then more jobs are needed to fill the void. At least, in a free-market economy, that’s how it works. Unless of course, you live in Califawwwnya where 40% of the population already works for the government and they are going to 4 day workweeks and laying people off.

So this “throw money at it” to create jobs is perhaps the most telling statement from the black perspective I could ever read. Blacks seem to know how to spend money but not so much on where it comes from, how it is made, why wealth even exists and how it can be destroyed. I shake my head in the sadness of it all.

“The renewed push to create jobs is driven by a recognition that the $787 billion stimulus program enacted in February is not a sufficient remedy for an unemployment rate that stands at 10.2 percent.”

What..!! The LA Slimes reporting that Barack Hussein’s oft vaunted “stimulus program” really isn’t working..?? Say it ain’t so..!!
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and I believe a pig just flew by my window…….

Democratic lawmakers plan quick push to boost employment

By Peter Nicholas

Troubled by the rising jobless rate, President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are assembling a jobs package that would devote billions of dollars to projects meant to put people back on payrolls in 2010 and keep them working…

http://www.denverpost.com/frontpage/ci_13875661

Oh, that’s why the deficit is bad – because Americans aren’t “getting anything for it.” Sorry, never knew that.

It’s all OK if Americans get their goodies, right?

Unfortunately, far, far too many Americans agree. Gimme free health care, gimme a make work union job.

Who cares if even China will soon reach their limit of financing our debt.

Not to mention that, as was the case with FDR’s CCC, when the Government spending ends, so do these jobs.

I guess Democrats will just need to keep passing multi-billion dollar jobs programs forever.

That’s how they get reelected, and Americans will do so, lest their freebies end.