[Peace-discuss] Money for Directly Hiring People Popular, Payroll Tax Cut Not Popular

[C. G. Estabrook]

 From <http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/09/20/money-for-directly-hiring-people-popular-payroll-tax-cut-not-popular/ 
 >:
> ...The top problem right now for the American people is unemployment  
> 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.
>

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