We need a big, viable jobs stimulus. The Dow has fallen more than 2,000 points in the last 3 weeks. BNY Mellon is shedding thousands of jobs. Productivity is down. Consumer spending is nonexistent. Unemployment is not moving. Italy, Spain, and Greece are in serious economic trouble. Bank of America has lost half of its stock value since January and is on a death watch. The United States just had its credit rating downgraded by one of the three big credit rating agencies for the first time in its history.
We need a big, viable (effective), jobs stimulus package. We are likely to be facing a double dip, a second recession. However, the White House is silent on the matter. which is only slightly better than the trade patent reform that Senator McCaskill parades as the way to get job creation going in this country. The American people expect their President to create jobs ! People are hurting ! I am one of those hurting people ! Why is the White House silent on jobs ? Where is the President on this ? As Democratic voters, we expect our President, the member of our Democratic Party, to be especially sensitive to the suffering of ordinary Americans all across this country !
I have long suspected what Labor Secretary Reich tells us: The White House does not believe that the votes to pass a big, effective, jobs stimulus bill which uses large amounts of federal money exist in the Congress. I know we need it! I know that nothing else will create jobs ! So, I agree about the need for it !
However, it is not hard to imagine the response from the White House :
Show me the votes !
The response : __________- .
Crickets. There is no effective response to that answer.
The President would support such a bill if it had any chance at all of passing the Congress.
There are 240 Republicans in the House of Representatives. They will not vote for such a bill. To get cloture in the US Senate, we need 60 votes. We have 51 Democratic Senators in the US Senate. The President cannot magically create jobs, bypassing the Congress. Congress holds the power of the purse.
Misdirected anger helps nobody. That is not creating jobs. Get on the Congress which holds the power of the purse and can spend federal money to create jobs. Get on the Republicans and Tea Party Republicans in Congress about their failure to create jobs.
I will join you in criticizing the President if you can name for me 60 votes in the Senate to pass such a bill and 217 votes in the House of Representatives to pass such a bill.
So, either show me the votes or get to work and call your congresspeople and pressure those who actually can do something about jobs !
Otherwise, you are just posturing and venting, but with misdirected anger. And wasting energy.