This is what Obama SHOULD be doing with the stimulus (unemployment, Congress)

[7 Wishes]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/business/01view.html

[domergurl]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/business/01view.html

Roosevelt was a SOCIALIST!!!! Grrrrrrrrr .... can't have people workin' fer the gov-mint! The CCC stood for Communist Communist Communist. We wouldn't be in the mess we're in now if it wasn't for Roosevelt! He's the root cause of the mess that our benevolent leaders, Reagan and Bush II tried so hard to fight but were thwarted by the commie socialists in Congress and in the white house! You CANNOT REFUDIATE a word I've just typed.

-S. Palin

While I'm all for a new CCC, but when the CCC was created, I believe that unemployment was at almost 25% (???????).

-DG

[7 Wishes]

Actually, in the 1990s, the way unemployment was measured was changed. In reality, the U6 number of about 16 or 17% is a more accurate comparison to the 25% unemployment of the 1930s

[roysoldboy]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/business/01view.html

Good article that I can't believe was in the al Times. At any rate it contained some good suggestions that have been put forth by many outside the Obama administration and they may be why they are never taken.

I always wondered just what Obama knew about road construction when he kept talking about shovel ready use for the stimulus. When Roosevelt did his things roads were built largely by hand or at least a lot more of that kind of labor. Right now the only shovels that are needed for road buliding would be of the back hoe variety. Those things are built with machines and experienced operators these days. They weren't about to employ store keepers or office workers for their shovel ready projects.

I find fault with the comparison of AmeriCorps with the CCC also. The CCC was developed to give young men a chance to work and to be with other young men outside the military. AmeriCorps was begun for entirely different reasons and now it is the group that all federal funds for certain things are funneled through. For instance, ACORN got their government money through AmeriCorps. I can't think of the name of the group that was started by Obama in the early 90s and has spread out into many states from Chicago that is called a non-profit and claims it teaches kids how to do non-profit work now. Anyway they get all their money from AmeriCorps.

No, CCC wasn't like AmeriCorps in many ways.

That stimulus money that hasn't been spent yet should be put in a fund that could be used to keep small businessmen who want to expand from having to pay tax increases after January 1. That would allow them to expand and hire more people than they do now. It is the uncertainty of what will happen then because of some of the "reform" laws that have been passed that keeps those people from spending money now. We need to demand that that money be spent intelligently for a change and if there is a new one it needs to happen in a way not involving giving the money to federal government people or just to pork projects as too many of those under this one were.