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In reply to the discussion: Businesses do not exist to create jobs. [View all]Samantha
(9,314 posts)Let the largest driver of the deficit, the Bush* tax cuts, expire at the end of the year, provide more stimulus money to states for the express purpose of creating teaching, police, firemen, local and/or state government jobs, putting money into the hands of middle-class people and those impoverished who will SPEND IT ON GOODS, creating more demand, driving up hiring.
Fund transportation projects for one year (not one month) and pass the Obama Jobs Act which includes the rebuilding/refurbishing of infrastructure, take away corporate tax breaks except for true start-ups with need them, increase tariffs where needed, restore unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed, increase food stamps, the latter two are classic economic stimuli which historically both Republicans and Democrats have supported.
This is not exactly a difficult problem to address; what is difficult is finding politicians with guts and ethics who actually care about the Country and its people, as opposed to protecting the interests of those who finance their campaigns.
Sam