What are your ideas on how to stimulate job growth?

[Ted King]

JPK wrote:
I may not have the answers, but I know what are not the answers. Putting more lifetime government jobs in play is NOT the answer.

In my industry, financing for construction projects is still very tight. The backlog of infrastructure is enough to jar the economy back on track if the financing become more available.

That's 1 idea.

Keep the list going! It seems like the politicians are not interested in exploring the answers, lets make this an MR Grassroots project to save the economy!

JPK

Most state and local governments have trimmed spending on infrastructure severely, and Republicans are determined to make sure there aren't more state and local revenues to increase infrastructure improvement, so even though states have always been a huge part of the infrastructure development picture, they are essentially out of the picture now. Without greater state and local government spending, how do you suggest that we "shake" some finance from the money tree to get expanding infrastructure improvements?

[Grace62]

More con mythology:
"Government needs to get out of the way of business."

This means: we don't want to pay a fair share of taxes nor be regulated.
Republicans have been highly successful at reducing taxes for corporations and reducing regulation to the point that the EPA is nearly a toothless joke, labor has little to no power, and worker safety and rights continue to decline. And what's the goal of most of the "cuts" that were just passed: Cutting waste? Hell no. It's MORE DEREGULATION.

Businesses don't hire lawyers because they don't understand regulation, they hire them because they DO understand them and want to pay or comply as little as possible. They lawyers are there to help them figure out the way around. That's mostly legal, let's just don't pretend that if government would just "simplify" that business would be happy to comply. "Simplify" usually means deregulate, tax less.

[cbelt3]

Dakota wrote:
Wondering how jobs are created on an Apple forum by lifelong Apple users shows we haven't learned a thing about how a business becomes successful. Obama should surround himself with successful CEOs and ask them what to do for a change. What does he do on a daily basis? Go to the podium and bash corporate jet owners and millionaires and billionaires.

You mean meetings like THIS ONE ? Yeah, I guess it was all faked.

[Grace62]

$tevie wrote:
Let's face it, a good old-fashioned World War could fix it right up. We just need to convince all the countries to fight using 1940s technology.

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I'm with that. This time let's do Spain, Portugal and Greece. So lovely in the fall. Don't want to drop bombs or kill anyone though, let's make that stuff, stimulate the economy, but leave it in the warehouse.
I will volunteer to be Provincial Leader under the Grace-based Marshall Plan. I will need co-leaders so get your spot now. I will need several hundred pallets of hundred dollar bills to spread around, a la Iraq, you know. That should take care of their economic woes in no time.
Everybody wins!

[OWC Jamie]

We've had to hire lawyers just to read and interpret the regulations the Fed lawyers scheme up. Heck some of their own lawyers have a hard time with them.
Barney Frank has had to do the same.

More twisted hooey.

[Mac1337]

cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
Wondering how jobs are created on an Apple forum by lifelong Apple users shows we haven't learned a thing about how a business becomes successful. Obama should surround himself with successful CEOs and ask them what to do for a change. What does he do on a daily basis? Go to the podium and bash corporate jet owners and millionaires and billionaires.

You mean meetings like THIS ONE ? Yeah, I guess it was all faked.

I see a bunch of people toasting each other. What came of it?

[cbelt3]

Grace62 wrote:
More con mythology:
"Government needs to get out of the way of business."

This means: we don't want to pay a fair share of taxes nor be regulated.

I'll politely disagree with you, and refer directly to my posting. You may attribute these concepts to all such discussions, but I'm intimately familiar with the detailed workings of a few such cases. I'm not talking about 'DeRegulation', I'm talking about simplifying regulation.

Example: My company installed a wind generator. The whole program was threatened with cancellation and a year and a half's delay because the EPA sued the Department of Energy because someone suddenly decided the spinning generator might slaughter a flock of bats. All the permits, environmental impact statements, yadda yadda were already approved and in hand, and then the EPA got bats in their belfry and spent tax money on lawyers.

That sort of foolishness is what I refer to. We want to comply with the laws. We were. And then they went and made something up, with the appearance of wanting to just stop us. Stop us from a project that the President had called for... energy independence. Stop us from a project that the Governor of Ohio had personally called the White House about.

[Grace62]

cbelt3 wrote:
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I'm Ok with looking after birds, if that's what you're going on about. I couldn't really tell.

[Grace62]

billb wrote:
We've had to hire lawyers just to read and interpret the regulations the Fed lawyers scheme up. Heck some of their own lawyers have a hard time with them.
Barney Frank has had to do the same.

More twisted hooey.

Herman Cain would be a great candidate for you. He wants all bills 3 pages or less.

[$tevie]

Grace62 wrote:
[quote=billb]
We've had to hire lawyers just to read and interpret the regulations the Fed lawyers scheme up. Heck some of their own lawyers have a hard time with them.
Barney Frank has had to do the same.

More twisted hooey.

Herman Cain would be a great candidate for you. He wants all bills 3 pages or less. With full color pics.