The obvious answer to this economic mess we're in. [View All]

[MadHound]

As months and years pass by and no hope in sight for an economic recovery, the answer is starting to become painfully obvious to a large number of people.

We need a true, WPA style jobs program on a massive scale.

Such Keynesian economic solutions have long been punted around as a political football, a ball that almost nobody in DC, right or left, wanted to touch. But as time passes, and the solutions that have been tried fail one after the other, people from all walks of life are starting to come to the same conclusion.

We need a true, WPA style jobs program on a massive scale.

Not just liberals, leftists and Democrats are coming to this conclusion. Not just renowned economists and pundits like Reich and Krugman are coming to this conclusion. But ordinary, everyday conservatives are coming to this conclusion as well.

We need a true, WPA style jobs program on a massive scale.

I regularly talk with my very conservative neighbors(in a deep red county, in a red state). For various reasons, like they need a job, they remember how such job creation brought us out of the Great Depression, a sense of frustration after having tried everything else, these people are now openly speaking of spending a massive sum on a true jobs creation program. An editorial in my local small town paper called for such a program. People are starting to wake up to the fact that this economy is not going to recover unless employment is addressed in a meaningful, effective manner. There is only one way such a problem can be addressed.

We need a true, WPA style jobs program on a massive scale.

Of course our leaders, and national pundits are either too obstinate or too timid to get behind such a thing. Bernie Sanders is one of literally a handful in DC who are pushing for such a program. The rest, including the Obama administration, are wanting to continue to fiddle around with half measures. Nobody wants to step up and lead in this manner. And until somebody does step up to lead this fight, our economic recovery is going to go nowhere.

We need a true, WPA style jobs program on a massive scale.

I know, I know, you don't have to say it, the question is how do we get such a program past the Congress. That's where you and I come in. Start talking to your neighbors, even the freeper neighbors, and start spreading the news.

We need a true, WPA style jobs program on a massive scale.

You will probably be pleasantly surprised to find that deep down in the pit of their heart, they are thinking the same thing. People are desperate out there, and desperation can bring about many strange and wondrous things. Desperate people are willing to try something, anything, that holds out the promise of hope and change. If both conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats start putting major pressure on Washington, especially with an election coming up, they will listen. Unemployment and a bad economy cross all party lines, and so does desperation. Push this one item, hard, from both the right and left, and who knows, we might just get what we need to put us on the path to sustained economic recovery.

We need a true, WPA style jobs program on a massive scale.

If not, then we're looking, at best, at a lost decade, and at worst, a massive economic downturn that will change this country permanently for the worse.