Obama's Jobs Package May Include School Renovations And A Tax Break For Hiring

The president's proposal would mean construction work and an incentive for businesses to add employees. It's expected to come with a plan to reduce federal budget deficits.

By Peter Nicholas, Christi Parsons and James Oliphant, Washington Bureau August 17, 2011

Reporting from Washington and Alpha, Ill.— The jobs package that President Obama plans to unveil shortly after Labor Day could include tens of billions of dollars to renovate thousands of dilapidated public schools and a tax break to encourage businesses to hire new workers, according to people familiar with White House deliberations.

As aides work to put together the proposal, they are also hammering out a companion plan to reduce federal budget deficits over the next decade, which Obama would share with the 12-member congressional "super committee" charged with finding long-term fixes for the growing national debt.

The deficit reduction plan would rely on some of the ideas Obama worked on in private negotiations with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) this summer, aides said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a proposal that is still taking shape.

School renovations in Illinois are only done by a few select companies, who then farm out the work.

It is a masterpiece of overcharges.

Only the politically connected could ever hope to get such contracts.

As a non-union shop, we once bid on several of them in our district and in the Chicago district. We came no where close to being considered. The first hoop was proving you paid a “living wage”. Our guys made about 5$ more per hour than their union counterparts, and had a matching 401k. Because we did not offer a pension, we were dropped from the bid process. There was no appeal process.

Even if we did offer a pension, we did not have a “shadow” minority business owner. You will not qualify for such contracts in this state if you are not minority owned (woman do not count any more). Trust me when I say that none of these companies are genuinely minority owned. Jesse Jackson Jr. sits on the board of several of the large contractors here in the area, but in name only. I am not willing to be shaken down by some minority poverty pimp for 20% of the take, just so I can have him listed as a part owner.

But, it wouldn’t matter anyways, our state owes so many contractors money (ourselves included), your chances of even getting paid are slim to none once the work is completed, unless of course you hire a connected law firm (note DEM law firm) to collect what they owe you, which is another washing of the money to the D party.

Contracts to Illinois are just another pay off to the D party. Nothing more, and folks are starting to catch on to it.

And when the renovations are complete, what happens? Workers are unemployed AGAIN. Just what he needs, a spike upward in unemployment in October 2012.

And what about the renovated buildings? Will they be put to use or allowed to deteriorate - AGAIN? Sounds like all this is accomplishing is massive spending followed by tremendous fiscal pressures on local school boards, trying to cope with the renovated schools. Net effect - school taxes go up and we pay twice.

Par for the course with the Child Molester Party (CMP).

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