Jan Schakowsky release awesome Jobs Bill

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Originally Posted by ateamstupid

So since these are apparently all fake jobs, let's hear your plan for creating real ones. I've yet to hear one legitimate jobs initiative from any conservative, in congress or out.

C'mon, be reasonable - they've given rich people - whoops, "Job Creators" - multiple increasing tax cuts both personal and corporate over the past 10 years, if we just do some more tax cuts, surely The J. Creator will begin to create magic jobs out of thin air!

(I know we've actually lost millions of jobs under that plan already, but hey, Reagan promised it would work, and I believe. Even though his finance guy Regan later said "trickle down" was full of crap and didn't work at all. Like we've seen. But you gotta "believe")

Yes, we do need a WPA style program. All this purposeful distraction nonsense about "OMG ZE DEFICIT!" was a complete waste of time. The Dems let themselves be lead by the nose down that silly path. Someone better step up, and if it's the Progressive Caucus, good for them. Let the Republicans shout down job creation.

This Republican House has already earned the reputation of the "do nothing" House, the worse, most ineffective/inactive House in years. All they do is name post offices. We won't be seeing anything useful from them. They refuse to even extend unemployment benefits. Better those Americans starve if they are too lazy to create a job out of thin air and get back to work on their own.

Yay, Republican economic plan! Destroy the country, lower our credit rating, keep Americans starving, out of work, in poverty, with no health care in a backwards economy. Yay!

The time has come for Congress to focus like a laser on the most pressing crisis facing our country – the jobs crisis. With extended unemployment benefits scheduled to expire at the end of this year, 13.9 million people remain out of work.

The average worker who is unemployed has been searching for a job for more than nine months and recent reports reveal that private sector employers largely refuse to hire those currently jobless.

An additional 8.4 million are working part time because they cannot find a full-time job.

In June 2007, 63 percent of adults were employed, now the percentage is 58.2 percent. Despite reports of a Congress immobilized and unable to address the jobs crisis– Congress can and must do something today.

“It begins with this simple idea: If we want to create jobs, then create jobs. I’m not talking about “incentivizing” companies in the hopes they’ll hire someone, or cutting taxes for the so-called job creators who have done nothing of the sort.

My plan creates actual new jobs,” said Rep. Schakowsky. “The worst deficit this country faces, isn’t the budget deficit. It’s the jobs deficit. We need to get our people and our economy moving again.”