<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>From <<a href="http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/09/20/money-for-directly-hiring-people-popular-payroll-tax-cut-not-popular/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed">http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/09/20/money-for-directly-hiring-people-popular-payroll-tax-cut-not-popular/</a>>:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="postContent" style="font-size: 1em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p>...The <a href="http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/09/15/most-see-unemployment-as-americas-top-problem/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(15, 102, 145); ">top problem right now for the American people is unemployment</a> and what they want is the government to take actions to directly put our unemployed citizens to work. Since the law is not going to pass, it seems Obama erred again politically by making his newest plan to stimulate the economy very tax cut heavily. I think if instead of asking to spend $175 billion on a payroll tax cut, he should have demanded $175 billion be spent on a WPA-style program to directly hire 3.5 million Americans at roughly $50,000 a year each. It would have been more popular and it would have been much easier for regular people to conceptualize that it would directly make a big dent in our jobs crisis. The American people couldn’t be clearer that what they want now is jobs, jobs and jobs.</p></div><div class="postFooter" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></div></blockquote><div><div class="postContent" style="font-size: 1em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p><br></p></div></div></body></html>