Obama’s Solution For Unemployment? Put ‘Em On The Government Payroll!
Yeah, that’ll work!
JANESVILLE, Wis. - Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday that as president he would spend $210 billion to create jobs in construction and environmental industries, as he tried to win over economically struggling voters.
Obama’s investment would be over 10 years as part of two programs. The larger is $150 billion to create 5 million so-called “green collar” jobs to develop more environmentally friendly energy sources.
Sixty-billion dollars would go to a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank to rebuild highways, bridges, airports and other public projects. Obama estimated that could generate nearly 2 million jobs, many of them in the construction industry that’s been hit by the housing crisis.
Don’t we already have a Federal Highway Trust Fund for the sort of projects that Obama is talking about? And doesn’t it have billions of dollars in it that usually get siphoned away by greedy politicians looking to fund decidedly non-infrastructure-related pet projects?
Maybe Obama should look toward fixing the problems with the way our infrastructure development and maintenance is currently funded instead of inventing a whole new level of government bureaucracy and spending. That’d be the fiscally responsible thing to do. But then again, Obama is a liberal and things like fiscal responsibility are anathema to them.
But his idea to just hire all the unemployed people is a good one. In fact, I think the government should just employ everyone and then we coul….hey wait a minute!
