Thanks for the Job Creation, Prs. Obama!

I do commend President Obama for wanting to take swift action to try and fix our ailing economy. My fear is these politicians really have no understanding of the economic system. I hear a lot of argument on this subject but to me it still makes no sense to me to give the big businesses and banks all this stimulus money and trust them to provide job opportunities when they have failed us up to this point. Obviously something different has to be done here. My thing is why not give the American consumers something tangible they could use to repair their own individual finances. I am not suggesting we redistribute wealth or provide for those who can't or won't for themselves. We aren't the ones who caused this economic crisis to begin with but we are the main victims of it. We are the fuel of our economy. It is our tax dollars and expenditure that keeps the economy moving. We are at the top of the pyramid and money "trickles down" from our pockets, into the banks and American industries. It just makes sense to take care of us first. The homeowners, the consumers, the hard workers citizens who keep this nation afloat. What Obama is suggesting would possibly create jobs and sounds good on TV but I wonder if his plan to spend 900+ billion will be for nothing. If these same politicians and businesses pocket this money as they have in the past then we will be in an even greater crisis than before. Giving funding to the consumer will put money DIRECTLY back into the economy and therefore stimulate economic growth, jobs and the like. I mean all we are going to do is spend money for bills, material things, buy cars, and put money into these banks. This is the very thing we are hoping is accomplished with this stimulus plan so why not do it the right way? This seems to me the only thing that makes sense. In essence giving money to big businesses seems like a slap in the face to all consumers, if you ask me. We will have more jobs available when the economy gets stronger, so how does the economy strengthen? When we spend more money. Does this not make sense to anyone but me?

I hope this works. I hope we start getting the employment rate to go up. We need jobs despratly. And in the next few weeks, not years. I hope the market starts to go in the right direction again.

As I recall Obama said something like "create or KEEP 4 million jobs". So basically this stimulus doesn't have to create ANY new jobs because all he has to say is "4 million more jobs would have been lost if we didn't pass it". It's like I tell people, he is one smooth talker and you really have to watch his words. The human brain has a way of filling in the blanks and leading people to trick themselves. Just remember, Walmart is a $200 billion company that provides 2.1 million jobs. Spending 5 times that money in the hopes of creating and/or keeping 4 million jobs is NOT a bargain. Oh well. Nanci Pelosi warned us that every week it doesn't pass is 500 million more jobs lost so we'd better hurry! If not it will only take a month or two to make everyone on the planet lose their jobs.

I don't understand how these people are coming up with these figures. 4 million jobs in 2 years. They said yesterday that we lost 1/2 million jobs just last month that figure is increasing each month. By these figures all I see out of the 4 million jobs is just 8 months of job loss at the present rate. This bunch of nuts have had me confused for months and now they have even confused my calculator. At least the number coming out of my calculator sure doesn't match theirs. I am just about to a point where I don't know what to believe anymore. Art