Make Work Jobs Program News Today

Days like this in washington are clarifying in a conceptual sense. if you want to keep building stuff the military doesnt want because you think of weapons systems as a jobs program, a make work jobs program, we could be making anything. just call it that. call it a make work jobs program. it could be economically stimulative, sure. i would prefer some new off ramps, or new train line from downtown to the airport in whatever city you live in. but knock yourself out. build the pointless engine th...

Tell us when the hurricanes are coming. also want to cut it for the national nuclear security administration. these are the people that lock up loose nuclear material around the world. smoking gun, mushroom cloud. the guy from the nsaa, the undersecretary for saving the world, the republican plan would cut his budget. so in terms of priorities, we stop working on the whole, keeping terrorists from getting the bomb thing, but keep spending money on the random spare engine that the military doesnt...

Department reported new claims for jobless benefits jumped by 12,000 last week, much sharper increase than expected and it shows that the pace of layoffs has not slowed appreciably. plus we still have a national unemployment rate hovering just below 10%. an editorial in the "washington times" called obamas endless summer of spending suggests the administrations make work jobs program has failed and that those infrastructure jobs which are being funded by the taxpayers will disappear when the sti...