What can the WH do about jobs from here on out without Congress (constructive replies please)

[bluestateguy]

I think we have to face fact that save for a few pending bills already in the pipeline, Congress cannot be counted upon to deliver anymore domestic initiatives for the rest of the year and next year and 2012.

So what is it that the Administration can do without congressional action?

I am asking very nicely for no snark.

[county worker]

1. Congress had to vote the money but here is what FDR did

The Works Progress Administration (renamed during 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. It fed children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing. Almost every community in the United States had a park, bridge or school constructed by the agency, which especially benefited rural and Western populations. Expenditures from 1936 to 1939 totaled nearly $7 billion.<1>

Created by order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the WPA was funded by Congress with passage of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 on April 8, 1935. The legislation had passed in the House of Representatives by a margin of 329 to 78, but was delayed by the Senate.<1>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Took the words typed

Right out of my finger tips! :pals:

ETA: Regarding The the Writing Projects: Doing something like this http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html for the older Boomers speicfically the Vietnam Veterans, the Korean War Veterans. Just due to their ages but these folks have so many health issues from their service -

Point blank. . . I don't think a lot of these old combatants will be around to tell their stories at the age of 90.

[county worker]

9. I'm a Vietnam vet boomer born in 1946.

[DJ13]

2. Isnt there still several hundred billion unspent stimulus funds?

[joeybee12]

3. Really take corporations to the woodshed for hoarding MONEY...

they can invest and create jobs, but they won't, not because of "uncertainty" but because they're blackmailing Congerss et al to get what they want.

[bluestateguy]

6. On the margins that might yield minor results

Like a private meeting of Obama and CEO's of profitable corporations where he urges them to step up hiring in the interest of patriotism. They might throw him a few bones (200 jobs here, 300 jobs there, etc.).

[joeybee12]

7. With Obama's priorities of all wanting to get along, that's probably all they'd

give him...he needs to rake them over the coals, and that ain't gonna happen.

[Coyote_Bandit]

5. Historically most job creation has come from the small business sector

It's a tragedy that the idiots in Washington failed to realize that and instead chose to throw money at the big corporations, the multinationals and the banks and investment houses. It would have been better spent on small business creation and expansion. But that would not serve the interests of our corporate overlords.

[lib2DaBone]

8. That is a good question. As long as Repukes continue with the party of "No"..

I'm sure there are many Republicans that are unemployed... and many small business owners that are Republican.

If Mr. Obama can use the bully pulpit and convince the unemployed Repukes that their plan of destroying the economy just so they can get re-elected is not healthy for ANYONE... maybe then there would be a chance.

Mr. Obama could forge ahead with a National Jobs and Re-build America program via executive orders, but I just don't see the vison and leadership in the current White House.