Jan Schakowsky release awesome Jobs Bill

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

So ... where's the conservative jobs plan?

Anyone?

Maybe another tax cut? And another capitals gains deduction. And a foreign income tax holiday!

That would make corporations (whoops, "Job Creators") feel more secure, so they will hire and expand, to serve a demand that is no longer there, because the jobs they shifted overseas have left the American middle class with no money to spend on consumerism.

Damn. Pyramid schemes are like that.

Yes, if only the wealthiest had more money, on top of the record 1.2 trillion they are sitting upon and keeping out of the economy, they would feel confident enough to create jobs and grow, in spite of there being no demand possible.

Presuming economic growth in a consumer vacuum ... trickle-down Reaganomics at it's best.

Who are the stupid ones again?

Yes, temporary jobs, for 1-3 years, that leaves tangible results, that produce ... consumers.

just because she produced a plan doesn't mean it's necessarily a good one. is it a start? sure. but just because you and dailykos both call it awesome, doesn't mean it really is.

if it's temporary, where does the tax money collected in future years go? or is that a temporary tax as well? somehow, i doubt it. all the teachers, firemen, etc-who pays for them after the 1-3 years? more pushed on the states in a few years time, along with obamacare, to be trumpeted as savings? 50k per job is the average-how does that work out specifically, since many of the jobs are for summer help, or temp jobs? that's the main problem with jobs created by the govt, paid for by tax payers-there's no generation of profits from sales, etc. it's not a private sector job that sustains itself.
like i said, an idea. a start. awesome??? not so much.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

if it's temporary, where does the tax money collected in future years go? or is that a temporary tax as well? somehow, i doubt it. all the teachers, firemen, etc-who pays for them after the 1-3 years? more pushed on the states in a few years time, along with obamacare, to be trumpeted as savings? 50k per job is the average-how does that work out specifically, since many of the jobs are for summer help, or temp jobs? that's the main problem with jobs created by the govt, paid for by tax payers-there's no generation of profits from sales, etc. it's not a private sector job that sustains itself.
like i said, an idea. a start. awesome??? not so much.

Glad you can determine that by creating a list of good questions, then dismissing any possible answers out of hand with no investigation, assuming you won't like the answers.

You could try reading the entire bill and investigating it further, too, as no, "most of the jobs" are not summer help, temp jobs.

[Riot]

So let's see ... the sum of the brilliant and in-depth political opinion on the pros and cons of this suggested jobs bill mostly boils down to, "I don't like what I superficially skimmed and misinterpreted about it on an internet list quoting a couple of excerpts from a newspaper article, and I don't like Democrats, so it sucks!"

Yes, let's continue follow the brilliant Republican Tea Party economic policy where the deficit ceiling raise is threatened! Yeah, that just got us downgraded to AA+, but that's Obama's fault.

Or let's pretend trickle-down economics worked during the past 40 years, in spite of factual evidence to the contrary, and didn't greatly help get us to the financial disaster we're at now.

No wonder this country is so unbelievably messed up. One political party is determined to do no work to help this country, but just to bring the other party down, and they have already willingly sacrificed this country to get there. And have gleefully said they'd do it again.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

So let's see ... the sum of the brilliant and in-depth political opinion on the pros and cons of this suggested jobs bill mostly boils down to, "I don't like what I superficially skimmed and misinterpreted about it on an internet list quoting a couple of excerpts from a newspaper article, and I don't like Democrats, so it sucks!"

Yes, let's continue follow the brilliant Republican Tea Party economic policy where the deficit ceiling raise is threatened! Yeah, that just got us downgraded to AA+, but that's Obama's fault.

Or let's pretend trickle-down economics worked during the past 40 years, in spite of factual evidence to the contrary, and didn't greatly help get us to the financial disaster we're at now.

No wonder this country is so unbelievably messed up. One political party is determined to do no work to help this country, but just to bring the other party down, and they have already willingly sacrificed this country to get there. And have gleefully said they'd do it again.

just because one sees flaws in the plan doesn't mean one is a tea party member. that's overly simplistic, don't you think? the reason everyone apparently sees these as 'temporary' is even you say the funding for all of it is temporary, hence the discussion about temporary jobs.

as for the bolded-you think others are so quick to say that, since you're so quick to say it's from a democrat, it's great, right? typical of people to judge others by their own quirks and ways of thinking. like i said, the plan is a start-i didn't dismiss it out of hand. i was hoping for more input, instead of the usual. my fault for thinking i'd get answers i suppose.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

just because one sees flaws in the plan doesn't mean one is a tea party member. that's overly simplistic, don't you think?

I think it's overly simplistic to not bother to really look at the plan, or try and find out the details and what the intent is, thus dismissing it out of hand because one has jumped to the false impression that most or even a majority of the jobs are superficial teenaged jobs.

No. The majority of the jobs are skilled, leave tangible hard results (repair, construction, teaching) and will possibly require some retraining of the 99 weekers (which is addressed in the plan)

Your tax question is a good one.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

I think it's overly simplistic to not bother to really look at the plan, or try and find out the details and what the intent is, thus dismissing it out of hand because one has jumped to the false impression that most or even a majority of the jobs are superficial teenaged jobs.

No. The majority of the jobs are skilled, leave tangible hard results (repair, construction, teaching) and will possibly require some retraining of the 99 weekers (which is addressed in the plan)

Your tax question is a good one.

i read the article listed above, as well as a few others yesterday, trying to find more info. so far, unsuccessful in finding any real details. and like i said, it's all well and good to say hire more fire, police, teachers..but as has been asked, what happens in a couple of years? if it's not permanent funding, it's not a good plan imo, especially when one wonders where the future tax goes. haven't seen details on that either.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i read the article listed above, as well as a few others yesterday, trying to find more info. so far, unsuccessful in finding any real details.

I saw more detail, but can't remember if I saw it on the Progressive Caucus website, or Schakowsky's website ... it's not a bill yet, it's a plan, there are certainly not well-fleshed out areas.

But no, the vast majority of jobs are not superficial, temporary make work jobs.

Are they "not permanent" construction jobs, etc? Yes. But they are good, "hard" and needed jobs, not created out of thin air jobs. They will leave permanent benefits.

(I read the other day where most of the eastern logging industry of today is greatly dependent upon trees planted during FDR WPA projects)

and like i said, it's all well and good to say hire more fire, police, teachers..but as has been asked, what happens in a couple of years? if it's not permanent funding, it's not a good plan imo, especially when one wonders where the future tax goes. haven't seen details on that either.

But the government doesn't want to permanently hire hundreds of thousands of new workers. That would be crazy. And GOP-TV (Faux news) would call that a "socialist, communist takeover"

The whole point of stimulus and WPA type deals is to get the economy through a rough patch without totally cratering out. Right now, the last of the original stimulus is gone, on the local levels. The last QEII is gone. The economy is reacting partially to that (although greatly to Europe, and alot due to automated computer buy-sell programs - look at the daily swing chart)

The states are laying off teachers, firefighters, policemen, can't do country and state road repairs, etc.

The government picks this tab up temporarily, and the cash put back into the local economy, and the taxes, local and federal, keeps the locals afloat so hopefully they can go back to where they were in the future, picking up the costs of some of the permanent jobs.

Remember 1937? We are repeating the mistakes of the Depression. Hoover tried some light stimulus things (like the first stimulus package we had), then the economy had an anemic slow growth (just like we had) - then FDR and everyone became deficit crazy (like we are right now) then the economy tanked in the Depression due to the deficit hawks.

You don't worry about long-term debt during a recession/depression. You worry about your immediate problem, joblessness and anemic financial picture.

You carry the debt - notice that our interest rates have never been lower - while throwing that cheap, cheap money into the economy to keep it afloat.

And as interest rates are so low now, better the government borrows the money to fix all our federal highways - leaving better infrastructure while putting people to work - than doing it more expensively in the future (and killing more people while bridges just fall down)

What happens when these 1-3 year jobs expire? Hopefully the economy will carry it strongly. It's like giving you IV fluids while you can't eat or drink due to GI tract surgery - after a few days, you're healed enough that you can take that over yourself. The fluids are not permanent, they are temporary to keep you alive.

And the increased taxes will then go to paying down the deficit. Jobs first, stimulus first, long-term debt later when the economy is strong. That's exactly the plan that has worked in the past in this country, most recently during the Clinton years.

"trickle down" has not worked. In fact, in the face of 10 years of massive tax cuts and capital gains tax cuts, the economy lost hundreds of thousands of jobs and went into recession.

Tax cuts to job "creators" does not work to stimulate an economy.

For example, you can say the temporary census hiring was only "temporary", but it made a noticable blip in the unemployment numbers for several months, and during those months people were not unemployed and starving. Yes, the jobs were over, and they had to go back to unemployment - or nothing - but temporary help isn't worse than no help at all, it's better than starving.

These are real people we are talking about - when you don't have money, when you are bottomed out, you literally yes, can't buy food and you starve or become homeless, etc.

We don't do "stimulus" to "help the economy", we do it to keep our fellow citizens alive.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

Glad you can determine that by creating a list of good questions, then dismissing any possible answers out of hand with no investigation, assuming you won't like the answers.

You could try reading the entire bill and investigating it further, too, as no, "most of the jobs" are not summer help, temp jobs.

so....you can't answer my good questions, you just dismiss the post...by accusing me of dismissing the subject. lol
you're the one on here bringing up these awesome ideas, why do you throw in the towel so easily?