Isn’t that unrelated to this bill?

If government debt is the problem, the us government’s debt is larger than the countries GDP, can someone explain, how asking the federal reserve to buy more of it’s own treasuries to finance even more federal spending is going to solve anything>?

@Liberata

Well, several bills in the past few years have received literally thousands of comments, like those bills that extended long term unemployment benefits, and I think the healthcare bill, as well as the first big stimulus bill. So I don’t know if the “ennui” lately is due to some kind of blog fatigue, or general discouragement of those affected, or I think in some cases so many people have lost so much that they can no longer either afford the internet access or else they are just struggling to make ends meet working all kinds of hours on two-bit jobs that pay minimum wage.

And after a few years of constant online petitions and rallying cries that seem to have no effect on what Congress does or doesn’t do, I’m sure many are just fed up with sham politics altogether. It’s a shame, because that’s exactly what the right wants the left to be—uninvolved.

It seems like it is that way on many political sites now.

Maybe The People are giving up on politics now?

Go ahead folks, keep playing the GGG game. On the left or on the right. Pick one. Tea Party or the George Soros Party. Both are driving you to this to keep your eye off the ball.

The ball is the theft of this nation by a group of looters that inhabit both Wall Street and Washington DC, with a revolving door between them.

You want an enemy? Focus your energy on Bernanke, Geithner and our President, who supports them both and has said nothing about shutting down the looting.

You – America – You – can fix this tomorrow. Put 500,000 people around The Treasury and The Fed in Washington DC and refuse to leave until Geithner and Bernanke both resign and depart and the FDIC goes through all four of the largest banks, marks their “stuff” to market, and resolves all that are insolvent. Lay peaceful siege, MLK-style.

The solution to create jobs for the prolonged future is through private enterprise, not temporary jobs that improve part of our infrastructure contracted by government. In the 1930’s our country was in a dire situation, similar, with a very high unemployment rate. The new deal resulted in temporary jobs that improved the infrastructure of our nation, not creating prolonged economic growth; World War II jump started that growth.

Currently businesses (of all sizes) are hesitant to expand operations because they don’t know how PPACA will affect the bottom line of their business.

Increased jobs in the private sector are the solution to our current problem, which will only happen when public policy leads organizations to do so.

Businesses want to expand their operations as much as the unemployed want jobs. Don’t forget corporations and our government are made up of people just like you and me. Don’t dehumanize these people because of issues and policy.

Appears to be NO support for this bill. Really; 10/11 comments on this. Apparently the public, including the unemployed, saw this for what it was; a campaign ploy by current Admin.

Seems too bizarre to me that there are only 4 comments on this bill so far. I guess everyone is just a bit fatigued with all the fighting and no action in Congress?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

Be careful what you wish for….

Mayor Bloomberg warned Friday there would be riots in the streets if Washington doesn’t get serious about generating jobs.

“We have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs,” Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show.

“That’s what happened in Cairo. That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those kinds of riots here.”

I just wrote the following message to my representative Erik Paulsen and I encourage all Minnesotans and in fact all Americans, both in and outside government, to support this bill:
Please pass the American Jobs Act. It’s an important effort, one that all Americans can feel proud supporting, to improve the conditions of our country. For those who scoff at the government’s presence in the economy sector, remember that it was the government’s absence which allowed businesses and banks to drag us into this situation. The economy can’t grow if people aren’t working, and this bill extends that opportunity to people who need it. Please represent more American voices than just our small corner of Eden Prairie- not everyone is so fortunate nor nearly as prosperous.