Government Could Create a Million Jobs, Obama Says

The Wall Street Journal ^ | August 30, 2011 | Jared A. Favole and Carol E. Lee

[2ndDivisionVet]

As President Barack Obama prepares to pitch a new jobs plan to Congress, he said Tuesday there are steps the government can take that could add up to a million jobs to the U.S. economy and boost growth by 1.5%.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[the invisib1e hand]

ogawd make him STOP!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

This guy is an inflamed hemorrhoid on the anus of Western Civilization.

[molson209]

Blowing smoke(cough) from(cough)

[Cheetahcat]

Please GO away you Fool!

[ColdOne]

That could mean half a million to a million additional jobs," Mr. Obama said Sure bammy, sure.

[TribalPrincess2U]

You mean like N. Korea, maybe?

[GreenLanternCorps]

Whatever he is smoking these days it is NOT tobacco...

[Deaf Smith]

Sure he (Hussein) could, if we just based our entire economy on Brawndo. /s

[Siouxz]

Wait. Didn’t Jay Carney just say the government doesn’t create employment?

[Track9]

At the rate he’s going, a million jobs will cost us at least another couple trillion.

[CapnJack]

Whats he going to do, hire a million new bureaucrats?

The only way the Gov’t can create jobs is hire more gov’t workers.

The gov’t can only create a condition that is conducive for the privet economy to create new jobs.

[kennedy]

Yes, the federal government can easily add a million government jobs, simultaneously wiping out ten million private sector jobs.

[comebacknewt]

At the bargain basement price of only $299,999.99 per job!

[tet68]

the economy added about 117,000 jobs in July.

Considering that 240,000 were needed it doesn’t
seem that great to me.

Only the private sector can create job growth
and it won’t as long as liberal government
is standing on it’s neck.

[JPG]

Obama could open up the country to massive oil and gas drilling along with the building of new refineries and nuclear power plants. That would add hundreds of thousands of new jobs and bring in buku bucks to the treasury. Unfortunately, the little Marxist will never do it. For O’Kenyan, Marxist/Socialist ideology trumps capitalism every time.

[PapaNew]

Here we go again. Not only are the liberals confused but a lot of conservatives seem to be getting into this "job-creation-is the-issue" thing. FDR created all kinds of go-nowhere government jobs.

Job creation is not the issue - WEALTH CREATION IS THE REAL ISSUE. Government CAN create phony jobs but never has and never will create wealth - the free market is the only thing that creates wealth and a robust, growing economy. The issue conservatives need to get behind is "Government, get off our backs so the free market and the American people can go back to living their lives and thrive."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We’ll be rid of him soon.
My bet is 45 states will swing red in 2012.

[shibumi]

His plan will work!

There will be a million more jobs. No doubt about it.

They will, however, not be jobs that produce anything or add to the GDP.

And he will tax two million small businesses into oblivion doing it.

[Cable225]

An administration official said Mr. Obama wasn't referring to his jobs plan

That's because he doesn't have one. However, now that he said the word "jobs" in an interview he's counting on the MSM to spread the lie about his "specific" plan.