Michael Steele Knows What Jobs Are

This guy is nuts, a job is a job and the private sector has no legs at this time to create jobs therefor the stimulus and hopefully less tax cuts. This whole decade got started with George Bush's 550 billion giveaway tax cuts to the rich that supossidly created 1 million jobs and in debt a half a trillion dollars that should have been collected. Thats 550,000 dollars per job created.

RNC chairman. Ha! What the hell are they trying to pull with this one. They picked a black guy. my lord. He even speaks in that twisted half truthy round about way, like the rest of the republican speakers. This is a hilareous shame.

This guy is really smart. Snuffleopogus looked so funny. Clearly George has no clue. He probably gets his facts from kennymotown.

I really cannot believe how right on Steele is. So refreshing.

Building schools creates jobs in the short term and then in the long term those schools are filled with teachers and administrators (one example). Small buisiness jobs are 'permanent' until credit freezes up, the economy goes down the drain and layoffs become the only option. Also, all building jobs are 'temporary' work if you think about it. They end when the job is done...the trick is to actually have something to build!

Right now unemployment is skyrocketing and states are running out of money to fund unemployment and other social programs. Yet state aid is being axed from the stimulus. So all those people need WORK now. There is some serious lack of logic and genuine concern coming from the RNC right now.

STOP Drinking the Kool Aid folks. It doesn't really matter at all where the first dollar is spent, whether it is on airfare or bridges. What matters is how fast is can be spent again, and again.

Jobs are created by small business owners that see an opportunity and go for it. New government jobs are not sustainable but are the obvious goal of the liberal writers of the original bills. These hard times are being used as a chance to launch a trojan horse bill into the heart of capitalism.

Wanna spend $900 Bilion? Why not shoot a check for $3,000 to every man, woman, and child in the US(approx 300 million) and let them spend it as THEY see fit. The real winners in this economy will be sorted out in 6 months!

I'm generally a conservative but tax cuts won't work here. However, It's the fear of tax HIKES on small businesses that have added to our problems. Obama should lead and say NO TAX CHANGES FOR NOW - Here's 3 grand- have fun.

A man with a sense of history, sense and accoutability, talking to an agenda oriented socialist, that is paid by NBC and Democrats, so once again, no impartial or objective comments from Geo, reason, he get's paid to slant.

God bless Mr. Steele, he may be one of our only hopes.

Mr. Steele makes sense. It is unfortunate that some people are judging him as a token. The government printing money and spending it at an alarming rate is far more frightening to me than a collapse. I am a lay person on the subject but I look at from the way I run my house. When I see hard times coming I look for ways to cut back: clip coupons, put on a blanket. I save more, wait for what I want.
Have any of you heard of freecycle.org?
We have become a toss away society that wants only brand new stuff.
I think an adjustment to the economy might be what we all need to get back to reality. Our standards have become so high in keeping up with the Joneses!

Help your neighbor who is out of work- save- reduce - reuse.

THe love of money is the root of all sorts of evil.

So, what does that make police officers, firemen, and postal service workers?

That's funny, because most of my friends that are now unemployed had private sector "jobs" with a "contract" that was not renewed. So, do "jobs" and "contracts" have different meanings to conservatives whether it's being applied to private or public sector?

Especially with all of the subcontracting created by the private sector to shed liabilities, the argument that work created by the private or public dollar is not a job is a joke to most in the real world.

What an idiot...

steele makes reasonable arguments.

it's just common sense.

you can only work on a road/building/etc. until its done.

then what?

not saying the plans are bogus, but addressing concerns is an important part of fine tuning legislation.

i'm just going to go ahead and say what we're all thinking

the leader of the RNC is black????

bandwagon?

Mr. Steele is such a moron.

The work is designed to go away, its a fucking stimulus.

The money is already injected into the economy, and that is used to build the businesses.

Is it perfect? hell no. it whould be all investment, no tax cuts, and plenty of expansion of government programs. Ever stood in line at the DMV? hell yeah there is work to do there and elsewhere in government.

This stimulus is going to be somewhat impotent because of the concessions made for the stupid republicans just like Mr. Steele.

This guy is still head of the RNC? ROFL. What is he pulling a Blagojevich?

This guy is really a moron.

Steele is a cross between Clarence thomas and Bush's left nut. he has the intelligence of a brain dead squirrel, the charisma of a drunken 2 year old and the appeal of a bag of dog vormit. In other words he is a real limbaugh/coulter rebulican.