Reply #31: Well, thank you very much for your work.

[jtuck004]

But my door knocking time is going to be used looking for a job, as is the case with
30 million of my neighbors. And that number is increasing. And while I know you must
be working hard, it seems like I have seen you more on TV asking people to turn out
for a vote than I have of you demanding a new jobs program. I probably just missed that.

Oddly enough, when people aren't getting a paycheck, they get anxious, and even though
you point out that job growth has gone on for several months, if it keeps up at this rate
we will have 35 million unemployed and underemployed people, real people, by next year.
And the unemployment rate will be over 12% by 2020. That's 10 years with not enough jobs
for people who were laid off at 52, or 48, or 44. Their first hope is going to be Social
Security (you aren't planning on changing that, are you?) which means that unless someone
creates a jobs program that kicks this country in the ass a little, their reward for paying
into the system with their work for for 20 or 30 years will be to try to survive on food stamps
or perhaps begging, and hopefully make it till Social Security kicks in when they are 65,
or 66, or 57. Do you really think they aren't going to look for alternatives, in their life
or their votes? They aren't all teabaggers, but they all need to eat, and they can't eat hope.

It doesn't seem out of the realm of possiblity that a democratic president could set all the
other issues aside and create a jobs program. We know you set aside $15 trillion to help the
bankers on Wall Street, who are keeping over $3 trillion of that money without having to return
it, as well as paying several million dollars in bonuses to people whose actions were directly
responsible for 30 million Americans not being able to work as they need to, and the loss of
millions of homes.

Maybe we aren't as important as the friends of Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke on Wall Street,
but just maybe you could set aside a trillion or so and create a jobs program, and we could
pay it back with the income we generate from working and creating new jobs? I hear it has
been done before, quite successfully.

Btw, have you seen my friend FDR?