join us to debate whether the stimulus created jobs or just saved them, whether it saved enough of them, and where the money most needs to be spent to really end the economic crisis--for all Americans.
Thanks to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund for video in this segment.
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Not Too Late to Stimulate Economy Equitably
The House of Representatives passed the the Jobs for Main Street Act on December 16, right before winter break. With the Senate poised to take it up and the country still hurting from the recession despite Wall Street's record profits, we ask a panel of experts what Congress and the administration need to do to ensure that stimulus funds get spent on the people who need them most.
Nathan Newman of the Progressive States Network, Jacob Faber of the Center for Social Inclusion, Harry Moroz, researcher with the Drum Major Institute and contributor to the Huffington Post, and Aaron Glantz, Stimulus Editor for New America Media and author of The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans join us to debate whether the stimulus created jobs or just saved them, whether it saved enough of them, and where the money most needs to be spent to really end the economic crisis--for all Americans.
Thanks to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund for video in this segment.
join us to debate whether the stimulus created jobs or just saved them, whether it saved enough of them, and where the money most needs to be spent to really end the economic crisis--for all Americans.
Thanks to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund for video in this segment.
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Sending stimulus funds to a Republican governor like Linda Lingle who has A) Not applied for them, B) Withheld them when she did get them, C) Illegally used them to offset general fund expenditures, didn’t help Hawai’i at all. Sending the funds directly to Maui County would have resulted in actual help to a place where unemployment went from basically 0% to so high that people are fleeing the state.
Look for Linda Lingle to try for national politics and watch out! She’s smart, she knows how to bamboozle the public and she is as bad as Bush and Cheney…in fact, see Superferry Chronicles on how she did a big (illegal) favor for John F. Lehman (neocon and McCain advisor) in order to try for the VP nomination. Since it all fell apart (Thank you, Sierra Club), Palin got the nomination instead or we might be looking at President McCain since Lingle is way slicker than Palin and no joke when it comes to intelligence and education.
By paiagirl on January 6th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Washington will never understand what is needed to fix the economy and create jobs, because taxing and spending money is all they know.
If one wants to create long lasting jobs and fix the economy, they should spend money solving a problem that is costing money, creating more problems, or hurting the people and the Country.
Being addicted to foreign oil, continuing to burn coal, letting our infrastructure distruct, are just some things that well spent money would not only create jobs, save money, and improve our Countries future while fixing these problems.
The idea of spending money with no real objective is going to fix or stimulate the economy, and create long lasting jobs is only something Washington could think of.
By iremember54 on January 7th, 2010 at 10:48 pm