Bill To Put 7 Million Americans Back to Work, Rebuild Infrastructure

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Kucinich-Proposes-Landmark-by-Dennis-Kucinich-110922-618.html

Washington D.C. (September 21, 2011) -- As the nation struggles with long-term unemployment at rates not seen in generations and as infrastructure crumbles across the nation, Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced a dramatic new proposal to address our structural economic problems directly by creating over 7 million jobs.

The National Emergency Employment Defense (NEED) Act of 2011 would allow the federal government to directly fund badly-needed infrastructure repairs and fund education systems nationwide by spending money into circulation without increasing the national debt or causing inflation.

"Today, nearly 25 million Americans are either unemployed or cannot find a job on which they can live and support their families. FDR's response to such circumstances was the New Deal. Today, we need similarly bold solutions," said Kucinich. "We need a solution that will revive our economy in a sustainable way that will put millions of American back to work."

"There should be work for those who are able to work. Government must become the employer of last resort. The private sector is not providing the jobs. When the private sector fails to provide the jobs, the government has a moral responsibility and a practical responsibility to step forward to put the country back to work.

More at the link --

[dkf]

1. Renewable energy is more important.

Energy is the lifeblood of our economy.

[devilgrrl]

3. How are we to address the renewable energy if our roads and bridges in disrepair?

You have the answer to everything. :popcorn:

[dkf]

5. Roads and bridges will have to be fixed as needed by someone.

Transitioning to renewables is a much larger project that needs bigger financing and planning and it has more implications for our long term economic health.

Funny how we never used to be so dependent on the federal government for road maintenance, but now that is the only source of funding? Frankly that is the best avenue to get approval to raise local taxes that I can think of.

[Pigheaded]

2. Go Kucinich

Sounds like a good start.

PH

[phantom power]

4. Good. Dems need to propose these solutions, and make the GOP explain why they hate Americans.

[econoclast]

6. Ok. Let's do the math

7 million new government direct hires
X 30,000 dollars per year. ( seems reasonable ) = 210 billion dollars just in wages
They need health insurance. Contributions to SS etc

Plus I gather that repairing our infrastructure will need more than 14 million bare hands. So steel concrete asphalt bulldozers cranes etc

1 Trillion dollars EASY! A year. Which we are just going to print. Without inflation.

OooooKaaaay