LaHood: Stimulus Jobs Will be Sustainable — if Congress Acts

Only sustainable if the gov’t keeps spending money. This article convienently glosses over that fact. And trolly’s and train’s don’t work. Point to one of these in the country that actually makes money and isn’t subsidized by the tax payer. YOU can’t!

chad:”And trolly’s and train’s don’t work. Point to one of these in the country that actually makes money and isn’t subsidized by the tax payer. YOU can’t!”
Could you point to one road in this country that actually makes money and isn’t subsidized by the tax payer?

Obama’s position is ridiculous.
Now he’s trying to sell the stimulus plan after he rammed it through Congress with little or no debate and virtually no discussion of its details.
How about discussing the fact Obama protected the rich AIG executives by placing a provision in the stimulus bill exempting their bonuses?
How about discussing the major policy changes in the stimulus bill that raise costs for health insurance such as COBRA and HIPAA changes?
How about analyzing whether the “infrastructure” projects are really of a priority nature?
What a joke the reporting is. ABC is better than CBS, MSNBC, or CNN, but it still needs to ask better questions concerning the stimulus bill such as indicated above.

trythetruth: hmn – uhm the last stimulus….the current one is creating and going to create jobs. Not all the money has been given out yet and your calling it a failure. How?
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It’s not creating jobs because it’s tax payer money. What part don’t you get? Of course SOME government jobs are needed and tolerated. BUT on the whole it’s bad for the economy for the government to be a large employer because it’s just like a monopoly, it promotes economic stagnation. These jobs will stop when tax payer dollars stop. And it’s all borrowed from the Chinese and eventually we’ll have to literally WORK it off. DAMMIT!! it’s common sense…

Congress needs to spend more money? What is the man smoking? How long can they fund big goverment off the backs of taxpayers?

Building Infrastructure does not increase Gross Domestic Product. Without true American Made GDP the only thing that will change in the number of polititians receiving bribes from building contractors. The American economy can not revive without a “Buy American Policy” period. The only constant over the last 8 years truely impacting our economy has been job loss in the manufacturing sector.

We are so cooked.

What a bright idea is like drinking all my beer to sell the cans for pennies.

Maybe we should just let roads and bridges fail. we don;t need roads, we can get back to riding horses. We don’t need to pay taxes, we will just teach our kids the bible, that is the only book they need to know anyways. Why would we need a $600 billion defense budget??? Why would we need police, since we have the right to bear arms??? I just don’t get it…hmm…maybe we can get rid of social security too. Why don’t we just move back to the 1800′s?

“I think Republicans want to be helpful on energy, on education, and on healthcare,” he said.
Are you kidding? The GOP wants to help itself and NOBODY else.

Gary, I agree “First Obama helped destroy the economy with bad fiscal policy including bailing out his elitist banking buddies, high spending and deficits. Now the EPA,( without any elected representative input) is about to enact cap and trade regs that will make energy unaffordable.”
Further, President Obama uses nice-sounding platitudes to mask his goals, but his political proposals always reveal the truth. The idea of “saving the planet”is only a means of duping the average person into unwittingly supporting his real agenda which is defrauding the tax payer and industry out of trillions of dollars in a futile and wasteful effort to reduce co2 emissions a trace element that accounts for less than 0.0035% of the atmosphere and by the way a trace element that is essential to all life on the planet. So much for “green jobs” since without co2 there would be no green planet and no life what so ever and if President Obama gets his way no jobs as well.

I really hope that the stimulus helps out this poor economic situation in the U.S., but especially during these times we need to remember that so many people have it many times worse around the world. The U.S. should be doing way more to address the Millennium Development Goals. The plan to end world hunger has been getting seriously ignored.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.
(source: borgenproject.org.)

This is government thinking at its best. Another dumb idea. The people losing their jobs are not bridge builders nor concrete finishers. People need jobs in the areas they are trained. The government is simply spending money it doesn’t have, bankrupting the country and making an absolute mess of the economy.

Honestly I think sometimes rather than give the Obama administration the right idea of what to do in these blogs we should just let him enact his ridiculous ideas so the American people can see how idiotic this administration is.

yean

Question: When do the American people and the government pay back the principle borrowed and dig out of the debt? It’s a basic question that merits discussion.

I think this will all work out for the best in terms of the economy. Check out my website at http://www.uzzeltechnologyenterprises.com for more info!

Those obstructionist Republicans who think stimulus money would be most effective if given directly to the people, may not realize that individuals would not collectively pool their money to make infrastructure maintenance & expansion projects. That is what GOVERNMENT spending does! If we fail to do these sorts of projects, we will have more civil disasters like major bridge collapses, etc. If given directly to the people, it would be a) saved b) used to pay past debts c) used to buy goodies primarily made by foreign manufacturers d) all of the above. Any of these represent an economic sugar-high with no lasting benefit to American society. The new administration’s economic policy represents an investment in America that is right on target.

My husband is an out of work construction worker – 14 months and counting. IF work to repair and rebuild our infrastructure gets him and his many friends back to work I am for it. We need the infrastructure to move the product people.

Private sector production of goods and services are the only things which have ever produced wealth in this country– everything else produces debt. More government spending will lead to massive spiraling debt, with no net sum gain even after the trillions have been squandered. This is a bloated Hollywood sequel of the Great Depression’s New Deal programs, which did nothing but deepen and prolong that crisis, while expanding the federal government to several times its former size.
Expect a similar result, albeit with better propaganda, this time around.