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The latest in the Stimulus 'game' has proven one thing – conservatives have a more consorted effort to effect change. The corporate media gerbils have been blasting the Obama plan, individuals (or think tank hires) have been writing their representatives, I am certain lobbyists have been throwing around their dollars, and all of this while the Obama backers have been literally sitting with a thumb placed in a place where it is unable to grasp a pen.
Or could it be that most progressives do not buy into the plan either? I believe what needs to happen is for Obama to come out and itemize what his proposal will spend and on what.
The conservatives should do the same with what they are proposing as up until this point all I have heard from them is to make the tax cuts permanent. Well, if the objective is to create jobs, that move has actually seen a loss of approximately 4,000,000 jobs, far from a gain. If that's all they have to offer, they ought to simply shut up and get out of the way for something new, that might work.
On Obama's side we hear of quite a variety of things, a lot of which aren't really designed to stimulate, even though they may be needed – such as additional funds for education (here the problem the wealthy have is it would go to schools they have been trying to shut down in favor of their 'private schools').
I believe if the intent is to stimulate the economy as well as create jobs putting it toward jobs that will restore our infrastructure is fine, however, it is not very long-term thinking. Once those jobs have been created and the projects are completed and the funds run out employers will simply lay those off the people who acquired those jobs leaving us where we are now only staring at another 'bailout'. One other scary thing about the infrastructure scenario is I can see $Billions(more) going to the likes of Haliburton and KBR. They have already robbed us blind without either providing the service or producing an inferior one.
If we are intending to create jobs, stimulate the economy, and build a future we need to look at creating long-term jobs. One of the ways this might be accomplished is by having corporations bring back jobs they have sent overseas. This could be done by offsetting the wages for a 12 month period if those jobs are continued after that 12 months for a designated period of time. This would put people back to work in the United States who in turn would pay taxes to our treasury. If these corporations send these jobs overseas they should be penalized by at least paying our treasury the amount the lost worker would pay in taxes. Presently, our country not only losses a worker, it loses the taxes that worker would be paying.
Along with this offset go to a national health which takes that expense and burden off the shoulders of corporations. This would not only provide a savings for the corporations but would also make certain our citizens are provided healthcare.
These are but two things that could replace playing huge sums to the haliburton's and would stimulate now plus keep things going in the future. What we really need to do in order to help this world economic situation is to create jobs so Americans can earn money in order to once again be the world's consumer. The New World Order cannot function without the United States' buying products. In order for this the United States needs to produce goods as that would create jobs that would put money in the pockets of the American consumer. Forcing the United States to third world status has brought the world to its knees.
