Posted on 10/14/2011 6:51:13 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has offered his own $804 billion jobs plan that calls on the federal government to hire the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans for jobs paying roughly $40,000 each, and bail out all the states and cities facing budget crises.
In an interview with the Daily Caller on Wednesday, the Illinois Democrat applauded President Obama for directing his staff to greenlight job-creating initiatives without congressional approval after his $447 billion jobs bill was defeated in the Senate this week.
“Now we’re making some progress,” Jackson said, comparing the legislative gridlock in Congress to the states that seceded from the union during the Civil War.
"We've seen Congress is in rebellion," he said, "determined to wreck or ruin at all costs."
Jackson said the government’s direct hiring of the nation’s 15 million unemployed Americans would cost $600 billion.
“It could be a five-year program,” he said. “For another $104 billion, we bail out all of the states. For another $100 billion, we bail out all of the cities.”
“We put people to work cleaning up communities. We put people to work through a civilian conservation corps, through a Works Progress Administration because the hour demands it,” he said
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Those same out of work Occupy protesters who don't clean up after themselves now?
I can see the protesters now rushing out to "sign up"!! [NOT]
Suddenly Jr. appears..is he running for something?
$40 k and a mule.
Good grief.
I thought idiocy jumped a generation?
It’s The Five-Year Plan, folks.
Remember, the real face of the DemoRAT party is on Wall Street — so expect any lunacy and stupidity.
This is just another of the countless examples.
Commies are weird.
I wonder if you have to wear a "workers uniform"..
I wonder how much crazier it can get.
I guess all of us that go out every day and work real jobs are just supposed to drag all of the other mf’ers around for the rest of our lives.
I wonder if you have to wear a "workers uniform"..
I wonder how much crazier it can get.
All hail the Proletariat Comrade !
Forward with our NEP !
Death to all Kulaks and wreckers ! /sarc off
40k?... Can I quit my job to get that job?
This IS satire...right?
Liberals are NUTS!
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I dunno. He seems kind of stingy. Aren’t the unemployed entitled to a six-figure income?
Proof is in the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEwP0UeMpo&feature=player_embedded#!
Watch this loonie for yourself
I don’t know what he’s running for, but he passed stupid like it was sitting still.
100 million Americans make less than $40,000 per year.
140 million Americans are working right now.
Who among you can predict the “unexpected” result of Mr. Jackson’s proposal?
what would they be doing? Cleaning? landscape? going to Africa to fight terrorists? whouldnt you have a huge number of people making under 20$/hr quit to get these jobs?
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