Shovel ready jobs about just as real as Loch Ness Monster claims Obama

The existence of any “shovel ready” work has been denied by President Obama. President Obama has been panned by some for not being able to create many jobs for anyone. One of Obama’s campaign guarantees had been to get the unemployed back to work. Unemployment has dropped about 1 percent since he took office. Joblessness is still an issue of contention. Health care reform and financial reform have also been condemned by experts, including many conservatives.

Shovel ready does not exist

Obama has made it through his first two years of being a president almost. That’s just halfway. He developed this huge stimulus programs. Everyone was led to believe jobs would be developed with this. Critics on both sides of the political aisle have condemned stimulus programs as wasteful and ineffective. The New York Times got to meeting Obama lately. Job creation has not happened much. Obama had been able to address this within the interview. After he got to Washington, he said he learned one issue. Shovel ready projects within the public work sector to create more jobs don’t exist anywhere. Public work projects were used a lot through the Good Depression. This had been how Franklin Delano Roosevelt kept work for people.

Obama wants long term jobs on the table

Obama stresses that his concern has always been to do good over the long term. Popular opinion tends to go with short term. That is what he and David Axelrod both believe. The appearance of a lack of success gets him portrayed as a villain, because of not a soul being able to focus on benefits that may come from his policies in years to come. Obama is of the opinion that a democracy takes longer to get things done in than anywhere else, reports Peter Baker. The U.S. needs to learn patience in order to view the good. The Obama “shovel ready” comments certainly make it seem so.

Wither Washington

In the classic movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” an idealistic man becomes a Congressman, then he is broken by the cynical Washington machine. It seems like Barack Obama can relate. The circumstances seem the exact same for him. Departures of high level staff, for instance Rahm Emanuel make it appear he is struggling.

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New York Times

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