I agree give the people the money ,i no 1500 will get me out of some of 90% of my debt.
d.cobbsof VA7:33PM July 27, 2009
Im 63 years old IVE WATCHED OUR JOBS go over seas for many years ! Since I started working, our Gov. has done nothing. Now we have lost the abilty to defend our selfs , support our selfs, and be free with our choices . Our Gov. causes more racial prolems than any one our any thing to keep us off guard so they can do what they want and we wont nice ! Why ?
Ron Monroeof IN5:32PM July 27, 2009
it seems to me that the unemployed are looking for work with EMPLOYERS. all the administration has done is discourage EMPLOYERS. every one of the new rules or programs that they are trying to get passed are detrimental to the opening of new jobs.
basic economics says that the more it cost an employer to
have an employee the less he will hire. also basic economics says that inorder to spend a dollar you must make a dollar in profit [net not gross].
other than our government, most of the people understand this concept. net is what is left after taxes, utilities. raw materials, wages. and all other cost of doing business. according to the irs this net for a small business was 3 percent of their gross sales. and that 3 percent was before the economey went broke and people stopped spending. most small business at the present time are barely breaking even and a lot are using personal assets and borrowed monies in hope of a better time coming.
the only stimulus that the country needs is give the businesses a break.
talk to the small business owners and listen for a change.
and not everyone needs a college degree. dose the one that cleans obama's toilet have one? and if they do can they afford to pay their student loans? who will dig the ditches with a college degree? who will be able to afford a loaf of bread when every person in the bakery has a college degree? sorry but us peons are needed too. we dont want retraining we want our paychecks back.
the area i live in, 30 years ago, set up tax breaks for new businesses to start and come to the area. it worked until it became too expensive to do business. now we are back to the same old, same old. what happened to the employer training a new employee? and all the college degree or tech degree will not change that. the employer still has to spend time and money to retrain [or untrain] what the schools have taught.
time for change? you bet.
valeria bowersof PA12:26PM July 23, 2009
A second stimulus would work if it went directly to the people of the United States. I agree with Henry Hansen about $1500.00 per person! We can not give any more money to these big business, banks and the auto industries and we should have never done it in the first place! All these big business and auto industries need to bring back the jobs to the United States and quite with the outsourcing of american jobs to save a buck!! Out of 25 friends, 15 of them including myself have lost our jobs because of outsorcing and/or offshore manufacturing. So you ask would a second stimulus crete jobs?? I believe it will, IF IT GOES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!! And you start putting heavy taxes on companies that want to outsource jobs and/or do offshore manufacturing!! Do let them give the excuse that their a Global Company! We the american people need jobs in the United States!!!
Cassandraof IL12:14PM July 23, 2009
If the government taxes you and spends your money it's better for the economy than if you keep your own money and decide how you want to spend it for the things you and your family need! This is a prescription for totalitarian government. We individuals will have lost the freedom to control our own lives by working to earn money that we can spend ourselves. Since when has any bureaucrat ever had omniscient knowledge about what is good for the economy. The government routinely wastes billions on pork barrel projects that are overpriced and often not needed, like bridges to nowhere, subsidizing air commuter flights from small cities where there are not enough flyers for companies to run empty planes, a space station that costs billions and billions and has not produced much of anything,
and now CAP and Trade to control manmade global warming despite the fact that global temperatures have stopped rising for the since 2000 DESPITE increasing CO2 emissions. Like maybe the frequency of sunspots has a far bigger effect on global weather... but the power hungry politicians can't tax the sun!
R. Michael Borland,M.D., Ph.D.of MD11:49AM July 23, 2009
Historically, the economy does not tend to benefit from government intervention, except in the area of lower taxes and lessened regulation. More stimulus spending will not address the root cause of the current recession. As for the example of the New Deal in the 1940's, America's economy was not globalized to the extent it is today. American money funded American work projects and programs. If the government desires to create jobs, let them create work projects that benefit the public good. Some good examples would be higher quality roads and bridges, updated energy generation plants and infrastructure, and better schools and libraries. Just handing money to large corporations today does not guarantee that the jobs they create will be in Chicago, not Calcutta, India. Something to think about.
Young conservativeof OH11:40AM July 23, 2009
The government can throw cash out all it wants to the banks and automakers but it will not work. Industrial and manufacturing jobs must once again return to this country. We need to have jobs available making goods which people use and purchase daily. Everyone moved their plants offshore and to China under the name of being competitive. Well, their prices went through the ceiling, the quality and safety dropped an now there is no one in the USA which has a job to buy their products. Unlike in past recessions when things picked back up, the plants called back workers and all was good again..These days, there are no plants to call the workers back to..Its very sad. We MUST BRING BACK JOBS TO THIS COUNTRY.
Mikeof FL11:28AM July 23, 2009
That's the government intervention: If something doesn't work -- just throw more money at it. What a waste!
Don't help us, please. Just remove the obstacles so we can help ourselves.
ATof MD10:59AM July 23, 2009
it would not help at all until big business decides to start making things in america again there are not many factory jobs left and more are going each day the main jobs in the future will be lower paying service jobs retail and food services not a very bright and shining future for kids getting out of college
jim clarkeof CT10:42AM July 23, 2009
If we are going to be giving out more money for a stimulus it should go directly to the public. I would suggest $1500.00 per person, this would give most people enough money to pay up there mortgages and still be able to keep their homes. They also could pay to have many of the things fixed that need fixing that they can not afford to do currently. It is our money they are giving away so let us spend it instead of the special interest groups. When Mr. Obama ran for office he said no more pork barrel would be around, wrong!!! the last bill was loaded with it again. People are very discouraged that giving the banks and big business our money so they can take fancy vacations and call them meetings.
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