A right-wingers worst nightmare. Michael Medved dreams that Obama proposes a massive jobs program!

[Better Believe It]

A right-wing columnist worst nightmare. Michael Medved dreams that President Obama proposes an "America Works" massive jobs program! BBI

My 2012 Obama Nightmare
What if the president were suddenly to turn bold on tackling unemployment? Michael Medved on the bad dream that could shift the economic blame to the Republicans.
July 8, 2011

“We’ve waited three long years for bankers and CEOs to step up and do their part but when it comes to offering new jobs to their fellow Americans, these pampered plutocrats say ‘we can’t’ or ‘we won’t.’ America deserves a better answer than this smug selfishness. The long wait for a corporate turnaround is now officially over. On the crucial challenge of providing a meaningful job to every single American who wants one, we say tonight, ‘we can’ and ‘we will.’”

At this declaration, the Democrats in the House chamber erupted in boisterous cheers, providing further sustained ovations as the president explained his bold plan. He promised to hire 10 million unemployed Americans—a full 10 million!—in federally funded jobs by the end of the year. He proposed to put them to work repairing highways and building high-speed rail, constructing and repairing schools, restoring and expanding parks and recreation facilities, planting trees, tutoring kids, providing day care, caring for the sick and elderly, policing our streets and neighborhoods, putting up new, environmentally responsible power plants, cleaning up pollution, building homes for the homeless, helping update and replace the equipment for our military.

Recognizing that some of the unemployed won’t possess the skills they need to fill the new jobs, Obama pledged to hire them immediately nonetheless and to assign them as needed to intensive job-retraining, at full pay, for three to six months. “Is it better to continue paying out public assistance to people who are out of work, or to sign them up right away to learn new skills that will restart their careers and rebuild the American economy?”

The president’s plan would tap those concentrations of wealth to fund his vast jobs program with an emergency tax increase on the wealthiest Americans—restoring the 50 percent top marginal rate that Ronald Reagan championed in his initial tax reform of 1981. “My Republican friends love to cite President Reagan’s administration as the golden age of American conservatism. And I propose to follow his great example as a tax reformer. No, I won’t raise taxes on ordinary Americans—and 98 percent of you will pay nothing more. Even the wealthiest Americans won’t see a difference in what they pay on the first $250,000 they earn each year.

Read the full article at:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/08/u-s-budget-michael-medved-s-recurring-nightmare-on-obama-and-jobs.html

This is a speech that needs to be given and that we all would love to hear. But, it's just a bad nightmare and unlikely event for a right-wing Republican columnist. BBI

[meegbear]

1. Obama plunging the nation into prosperity???1!

Please think of the CHILDREN!1

[kenny blankenship]

2. No worries there.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Monkeys would sooner fly out of my ass. But a WPA-style jobs program is EXACTLY what's needed.

[ProSense]

4. From the OP:

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The best way for Republicans to anticipate and undermine this Democratic thrust would be to move first with a credible job plan of their own, which also would end Nancy Pelosi’s tiresome whine that “the Republicans have now controlled the House for 190 days and still no jobs bill.” Of course the conservative proposal should involve unburdening business to encourage more jobs, not crushing corporate America to grow the public sector.

Can Republicans win the argument against a big new federal jobs boondoggle? Of course the GOP can prevail, given deep public worry over debt, skepticism surrounding failed government programs, and obvious questions about any election year gambit: If this idea counts as worthy and workable, why did the president wait to propose it till the last few months before his mandate expired?

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Medved is in for a surprise: The President's mandate hasn't expired and isn't expiring anytime soon.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Mandate

Where has he used that??

[vi5]

6. Ha! That's good comedy...

Like Obama would ever do that.

[immoderate]

7. This is really bizarre from Medved...

Works for me, though, as far as it goes.

Jobs are not the answer. Distribution is. People should be allowed to work.

--imm

[Better Believe It]

8. We need jobs for all. Once they are created we can distribute them to the unemployed!

The jobless want jobs!

[immoderate]

9. Except that most jobs destroy the environment.

People need sustenance and purpose. Jobs are so 20th Century.

--imm

[Better Believe It]

11. So if 20 more million people lose their jobs that would be just great for the environment!

If people stop eating because they can't afford to eat that would eliminate a lot of human waste when they die and improve the atmosphere!

I can see how improving the nations infrastructure and building a modern high speed national railroad passenger network and electric light rail systems in cities will destroy the environment.

Wait a minute .... no I can't!

It's the old propaganda spread by corporate media that it's either jobs or the environment. Once is supposedly opposed to the other.

I'm not buying that.

[immoderate]

12. There is not enough meaningful work to keep everyone fully employed.

I am for all kinds of green industry and scientific research. But that doesn't solve the problem.

At a certain point, and that's way before full employment, the labor needs of a society are met. In the 50s, a worker could produce what it took a hundred a century before. Now machines can do most of that. So things get disposable. So there are landfills and ocean dumps. And we make more things that use resources and wind up in landfills so that people can have jobs?


At some point we have to deal with entropy.

--imm

[Enrique]

10. his stupid readers won't ask the obvious

if Obama is as socialist as Medved and the others have been saying for years, why hasn't he done this already, or anything close?