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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (101192)	9/11/2011 11:40:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

"Just wait six months.......the koans and wharfs of the world will be blaming Obama because nothing is getting done" I suspect that is the best case scenario, since he can then run against the "say no" R's. I favor the theory set out in the Packer article Scott posted, which echos what Elliott Spitzer said the night of the speech, which is pretty much the worst case scenario... "My guess is that the House will give him just enough of his plan—further cuts to payroll taxes paid by employers and employees—to be able to say, We’re not rank partisans and blind ideologues: we are doing something. But this wouldn’t be nearly enough to reverse the downward economic slide, allowing the opposition to go on playing the game it’s played since Obama’s inauguration—to lay the blame on him for the results of their own acts of legislative sabotage. Power without responsibility requires a high degree of self-restraint, something lacking in the contemporary Republican Party." Too much of it really isn't a jobs program. Extending unemployment is a great lifeline, but won't create jobs. Youth summer employment is a nice social program, but 3 month temps aren't gonna do much for the economy; just the election right after. = The plan would set aside $60 billion for the repair of 35,000 schools and teachers' jobs. "This will be huge," U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told HuffPost from his tour bus as it passed through Chicago. "Everywhere we go, we hear about ... how big the need is." The bill would save 280,000 teacher jobs, he said. "Pass this jobs bill and thousands of teachers in every state will go back to work," Obama said. huffingtonpost.com For how long? A year to get us to the election? Will Rick Perry hire teachers with this? Rick Scott Walker? Kasich? Nicky Haley Barber? Jindal? Christy? What would you do if you were one of the teachers hired by this program? Buy a new TV? Buy a new car? Travel to Hawaii? How about paying off your most urgent bills and sticking everything else in the bank cuz you know this job will disappear in a year or 2? Not much of a boost to the economy.