Alan Grayson on War-spending vs Jobs; Jan Schakowsky's Jobs Bill

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An excerpt in my email (Grayson's mailing list)

(much snipped)

Have you ever been in the desert when it rains? The water runs through the sand so fast that 15 minutes after the rain is over, it’s as though it never rained at all.

That’s what happens to our tax dollars spent in Iraq. The term “bottomless pit” is an understatement.

And what would all those employees do? Well, Congresswoman has figured that out. She has introduced a bill to hire 2.2 million people, and her bill breaks down this way:

The School Improvement Corps would create 400,000 construction and 250,000 maintenance jobs by funding positions created by public school districts to do needed school rehabilitation improvements.

The Park Improvement Corps would create 100,000 jobs for youth between the ages of 16 and 25 through new funding to the Department of the Interior and the USDA Forest Service’s Public Lands Corps Act. Young people would work on conservation projects on public lands include restoration and rehabilitation of natural, cultural, and historic resources.

The Student Jobs Corps would create 250,000 more part-time, work study jobs for eligible college students through new funding for the Federal Work Study Program.

The Neighborhood Heroes Corps would hire 300,000 teachers, 40,000 new police officers, and 12,000 firefighters.

The Health Corps would hire at least 40,000 health care providers, including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and health care workers to expand access in underserved rural and urban areas.

The Child Care Corps would create 100,000 jobs in early childhood care and education through additional funding for Early Head Start.

The Community Corps would hire 750,000 individuals to do necessary work in our communities, including housing rehab, weatherization, recycling, and rural conservation.

Or, alternatively, we can have all those millions of people, our fellow Americans, do nothing all day, as they lose their jobs, lose their homes, and slide slowly into poverty and bankruptcy.

And I’ll tell you one thing for sure: more corporate welfare will not create jobs. In the past ten years, we have crammed trillions of dollars into the pockets of Big Business, through bailouts, tax breaks, subsidies, no-bid government contracts, grants, cheap mining and drilling licenses, etc., etc. Do you know how many jobs in America the private sector has created during that time?

Zero.

Actually, less than zero. There are around one million fewer private sector jobs today than there were ten years ago.

We keep handing our money over to the rich, in the vain hope that they will give some of it back. That hasn’t worked, and it won’t work.

So which do you prefer: war or jobs -- jobs for all Americans? I want jobs.

We want jobs. Jobs, health and peace.

Courage,

Alan Grayson

Paid for and Authorized by the Committee to Elect Alan Grayson

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More on Jan Schakowsky's bill

Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act

http://schakowsky.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2975&Itemid=8

http://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/22791

[midnight]

1. I like this jobs bill, but have to ask when will Jan Schakowsky's

actions suddenly get in the way of "The Agenda"?