Saturday, 10 September 2011

THE OBAMA JOBS PLAN: 10 REASONS WHY IT IS A BAD JOKE


Sep 10, 2011

An article published on the Economic Collapse website has criticized a $447 billion jobs plan proposed by President Barack Obama, saying that instead of addressing the fundamental issues that are causing job loss, Obama wants Americans to spend half a trillion dollars on measures that will only create a very small number of jobs.

Sadly, much of what Obama is proposing actually consists of huge bribes to middle class voters, the article says.

Obama is trying to keep his own job, and he appears willing to pile up even more debt in order to make that happen, it added.

According to the article, during his speech to the nation, Obama instructed Congress to either "pass this jobs bill" or to "pass it right away" 16 different times.

Obama obviously feels very strongly about his jobs plan. But will it work? Let's take a few moments to break it down. The following are 10 reasons why the Obama jobs plan is a bad joke.
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# 1 The payroll tax cuts are going to cost more than anything else in the plan, but they will do very little to create jobs.

# 2 Obama's plan to extend unemployment assistance is going to cost about $49 billion but it is not going to do much to create any jobs.

# 3 Obama is proposing $50 billion in "immediate" infrastructure spending and $10 billion for a new infrastructure bank that will be dedicated to raising private capital to finance infrastructure projects around the country.

# 4 According to the fact sheet on the jobs plan released by the Obama administration, direct financial aid to state governments will prevent up to 280,000 teacher layoffs, and it will also help states retain more police and firefighters.

# 5 There are a bunch of other minor things in Obama's proposal such as "modernizing" public schools and helping more Americans refinance their mortgages, but it is not entirely clear how those things will help create a lot more jobs.

# 6 The Obama jobs plan does next to nothing to prevent jobs from being shipped out of the country.

# 7 The Obama jobs plan does nothing about the unfair trade practices that are absolutely killing America on the global economic stage.

# 8 The Obama jobs plan does nothing about the gigantic mountains of ridiculous regulations that are absolutely killing small business in this country. According to the Heritage Foundation, 75 new major regulations that have cost U.S. businesses more than 40 billion dollars have been passed since Barack Obama first took office.

# 9 The Obama jobs plan does nothing about the negative effects of Obamacare. Obamacare is going to absolutely slaughter U.S. businesses. Look, when most other nations do not burden their businesses with providing health care and we force our businesses to comply with the nightmare that Obamacare represents, who do you think has the advantage?

# 10 The Obama jobs plan makes our national debt worse. Yes, Obama insists that his plan will be "100%" paid for, but he has not told us how it will be paid for.

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