What stunned me was that nolone ever mentions doing public service menial hygienic cleaning of municipal services in exchange for being forced onto mendicancy in view of the fact that streets and parks are unkempt and could use an unemployed man or woman with a push broom since bagging groceries would deny mentally handicapped a job...and they do a great job of bagging groceries where I shop. Highway cleaners picking up discarded debris tossed from cars, hospital public area cleaners etc etc like a WPA which is the greatest incentive to get people off the dole and out bed or hammock into a paying job.

"Doing public service" is out. States that have state employee unions would never allow such. It would prove the excessive pay they (state union employees) receive for minimal work. Such idea was proposed by a small New Jersey town quite sometime ago. The hue and outcry was heard far and yon. It was even likened to "slavery". Excuse me..."slavery"? They were receiving money and being asked to simply help keep public parks and streets clean. In fact, they would only have been required to work fifteen hours per week.

There's nothing wrong with tough love. It's just too bad that we can't apply some to the dorks in DC. You know, no campaigning while in session, no recesses when there are bills on the floor and no playing until the work is done.

DC is more of an illusion than Hollywood. Even a good person becomes bamboozled when they get there. Once infected, there's no cure, so like you do with cattle, get rid of all of them all at once and start over.

BTW, I noticed that the rich posters, out of all that I said, only reacted to the "tax the rich" comments. That pretty much made my point about the rich not being concerned about jobs for the masses. I would tax them at 40%, delete ALL deductions, including contributions to political campaigns, either directly or indirectly.

There's nothing wrong with tough love. It's just too bad that we can't apply some to the dorks in DC. You know, no campaigning while in session, no recesses when there are bills on the floor and no playing until the work is done.

DC is more of an illusion than Hollywood. Even a good person becomes bamboozled when they get there. Once infected, there's no cure, so like you do with cattle, get rid of all of them all at once and start over.

BTW, I noticed that the rich posters, out of all that I said, only reacted to the "tax the rich" comments. That pretty much made my point about the rich not being concerned about jobs for the masses. I would tax them at 40%, delete ALL deductions, including contributions to political campaigns, either directly or indirectly.

Yeah, I don't understand the reticence about taxing the "over rich", who pay lower effective tax rates than anybody. The tax rate for them is supposed to be 35% now, but even Warren Buffet admits that his is around 15% and Mitt Romney's was 13.9%. So a flat rate of 40% is not outrageous.

Stopping all tax deductions needs to be done anyway, certainly for political contributions. Everybody agrees that big money needs to be eliminated from politics and this would be a first step. The second step would be to abolish non profit status for all political groups.

So I just don't understand why you and Old Gringo had a problem with what I said about the rich. Anyone who makes $1,000,000 a year and can't live on $600,000, has got a far worse problem than paying taxes.

Jobs, jobs, jobs is all we hear about when ramping up into an election cycle. Complete disregard to jobs after the elections.
Tax increases to the small business owners, cut available manpower hours to work without penalty to 30 hrs with ACA, increase obscure and unknown insurance costs, additional and new regulations and environmental costs cause small business to pull their hair out. Is it any wonder we see no job increases.
Buisness has to know what their costs are going to be in order to hire. Reasonable stability is the name of the game for small and large business.
I agree big business have been doing well financially. If they had answers to many of these questions I think we would see an increase in employment. There certainly is challenges to be faced with technology changes reducing the need for less people, but not to the extent the administration is claiming.
A completely different strategy of this administration has to take place to bring the job market back. It doesn't appear to me that is going to happen.
Investigation says that the NAFTA agreement has cost us over a million jobs allowing offshore business advantages. Small business competition by increased unemployment and entitlement benefits causing people to not want to go back to work ,and many other obstacles have caused many small business's to fold. What has congress or the administration done to support keeping them producing jobs.
What has the administration done to prevent big business, from laying off thousands and thousands of people? Nothing !!!!