re: #813 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Agreed, there are methods of spurring some job growth, even not explosive, at this time. With a functioning government, where both sides were less focused on their reelection chances and more on fixing this crisis, there might be a real chance at finding these methods out and implementing them. As is, we’re left with the choice of picking our poison.

Pisses me off sometimes. Everyone is always screaming “the government, the government, the government!” in either direction. Yet the banks are sitting on a record pile of cash, the rich keep getting richer, many corporations continue to break profit records, the gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening, etc. The GOP keeps talking about tax cuts “creating jobs”. Yet it’s difficult to even see tax cuts having an effect when developers and investors can’t even get a bank loan. This after we helped them out with TARP and continue to funnel money to them through the Fed. It’s become a closed system favoring only financial institutions and not the people in the end.