02-14-2009, 07:50 AM
Quote:Edit: I just wanted to add... (1 trillion U.S. dollars) / 303,824,640 people in the USA = $3,290 U.S. dollars per person. And, (1 trillion U.S. dollars) / 11 million all unemployed people in the USA = $90,909 U.S. dollars per person. And, if you looked only at people jobless for 27 weeks or more, then (1 trillion U.S. dollars) / 2.6 million = $384,615 U.S. dollars per person. So is this spending really about job creation? I don't think so.
Still, if you give this money as incentive to let employers take more employees, making things nobody will buy anyway we are talking about a new 'trickle down system' again. I would feel more like having the government hire people to make things that benefit all (windmills, road construction etc.), of course this is the socialistic thing to do so I don't expect that Obama plans to do this.