Comments on: The jobs bill

By: Edward DeJesus

Edward DeJesus — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:20:08 +0000

The Jobs Bill will do little to put the most disenfranchised to work, especially poor Black and Latino youth. The majority of the Bill’s incentives go to businesses rather than direct job creation. Do they really think that businesses are bursting at the seems to hire inner city youth? When will they get it – If we don…’t provide jobs for the young people with whom we work, the majority will simply be without jobs.

By: t22

t22 — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:39:39 +0000

The business tax credit is laughable. With it, the administration will be able to claim a “job created” with every business that claims the credit. But the fact is, nobody’s going to hire an employee to get a one time tax credit if the business isn’t there and if they do, we’ll probably be bailing them out on the back end.

Such a shame that nobody in this administration appears to have a clue as to what drives business.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:53:34 +0000

Let’s start be recognizing that government is limited to effecting the environment of the nation. The government can not mandate innovation, creativity or economic growth. Government policy can set the table, but not prescribe the menu.

instead of “job training” programs intended to make us all “computer programmers”, why not training vouchers for unskilled or unemployed workers? Let people choose to be trained as cooks, welders, IT specialists or truck drivers.

Eliminate income taxes on new businesses for the first 5 years.

Above all, be creative. We know what’s not working, it’s time government takes a chance on what might work better.

By: Andy Weeks

Andy Weeks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:04:24 +0000

Seriously? You think our advantage from 1880 to 1970 was education? Innovation maybe. The U.S. had a great human capital situation for manufacturing. Lots of low-priced, highly-motivated immigrants with low regulations. As we began restricting our human capital, we entered into a long period of reduced competitiveness. Now China and India have begun to remove the (false) reigns on their human capital and the result is a positive change in their competiveness. We don’t need a government engineered jobs recovery. We just need to restore freedoms. The answer, as it always has been in America, is freedom.