Reid Working on Job-Creation Bill For 2010

The Hill:

Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleagues Tuesday.

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told The Hill that Reid (D-Nev.) made the announcement about a new jobs bill at the Senate Democrats' weekly lunch.

Read the whole story: The Hill

Comments

[1010TRAVIS]

08:20 AM on 11/12/2009

we already had a job creation bill called the "stimulus" ??

[kidolympic]

06:44 PM on 11/11/2009

I HAVE A GOOD IDEA.

The wheel has been with us for a long time; keep on rolling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF5Q1jr28PM&feature=PlayList&p=4B22821E20886B18&index=2&playnext=3&playnext_from=PL

[lonbwoy]

04:14 PM on 11/11/2009

Hold on a sec, isnt that what the Stimulus Bill was supposed to do???.

Well I guess we have to pump more Money out there!!.

[Blufftonian]

01:51 PM on 11/11/2009

That Harry, always on top of the issues. What's the plan? Increase the fed government's payroll by 50%?

[Bardmess]

02:33 PM on 11/11/2009

At least. Also raise taxes. Why is it Americans are SO PATRIOTIC (and hypocritical), but are afraid to pay taxes? Repair the roads, tear down some extra dams that were put up in the 30s (to create jobs), hire people to help in schools, libraries, etc, just put us to work. Pay art students to paint the trash cans in the park. (artists have to eat too). Spend our tax dollars on jobs, health care, education. Obama would become as beloved and despised as FDR was. It is time to redistribute the wealth back to where it was before Reagan distributed it to the rich, and richer and richest.

[econ1]

01:38 PM on 11/11/2009

Please don't.

Throwing money at car companies and supporting car sales is good for car companies.

Throwing money at mortgages and housing credits is good for mortgage companies, real estate agents and home buyers.

Throwing money at solar is good for solar companies.

but the money has to come from everything else. So the rest of the economy gets hit to support the "group of the day", and they are very leery of hiring anyone if they think the government is going to swerve in a new direction and send them a bill for it.

[Bardmess]

02:35 PM on 11/11/2009

Groups of the day in waiting: the unemployed, the uninsured, the homeless, the uneducated. the underfed...

[bannorhill]

12:59 PM on 11/11/2009

I thought that was what the stimulus bill was going to do. Keep unemployment under 8%....

[Bardmess]

02:36 PM on 11/11/2009

It was, but the Blue Dogs and GOPers had their input, and they made sure it would be too small to work.

[bannorhill]

12:43 PM on 11/12/2009

How would they know? Nobody read the final bill before the vote.

[DUSAA-1775]

12:27 PM on 11/11/2009

Anyone who believes that this Congress is going to pass a meaningful health care bill is seriously delusional. Congress will pass 'any thing ' just so they can proudly show they did 'something'
they passed the stimulus bill to show that they did 'something' hoping that we would not notice that it did 'nothing'
they will pass a jobs bill to show that they did 'something' and that will amount to 'nothing'
if Albert Einstein were still alive, I am sure that he would notice that Congress keeps spending billions and billions of dollars (that we do not have) hoping that the result will be something different than the debt and unemployment we keep getting.

[Bardmess]

02:38 PM on 11/11/2009

We're a poor country that suffers greatly from taxaphobia. Poor poor us, we just can't afford anything. Pitiful. Might just as well lie down and die.

[wonketteRAWKS]

11:39 AM on 11/11/2009

More talk with little action.

[WANSU]

10:59 AM on 11/11/2009

Mr. Reid..how are you going to pass job bill if you cannot pass health care bill with 60 Democratic majority in the Senate??????????????. here is my advice Sir..if you want your party to keep their majority in both houses , the WH for awhile and your re-election in Nevada..KEEP THE SENATE IN SESSION 24/7 UNTIL THEY PASS HEALTH CARE BILL AND YOU WILL BE A HERO TO MANY IN THIS COUNTRY. Please, please, call the bluff of : Moderate Dems. and Liebermen to actually fillibuster health care bill. Let us see how these Sens. who sleeps in good houses will look without enough sleep/make up on the senate floor everyday they debate the health care bill!!!!!!.

[Bardmess]

02:40 PM on 11/11/2009

Yes, please!!!!! We're with you, don' wimp out now.

[tallcoolone47]

10:48 AM on 11/11/2009

I thought PORKULUS was the 800 BILLION dollar jobs bill??

[One If By Land]

01:47 PM on 11/11/2009

Seeing as most of the money was sent to the states to keep unionized teachers and state workers (SEIU) employed and the construction funds mandate union labor, it's pretty easy to see that the stimulus bill was meant to "create and save" UNION jobs. If you're not in a union, well, too bad for you.

[Bardmess]

02:43 PM on 11/11/2009

Yes, too bad if you're not in a union because then you're just so much red meat for the "free market" to lunch on.

Solidarity forever, that's what makes our union strong..ya-ya-ya. Every body get in a Union. Organize. Work together. That's what the bosses do.

A union job is a good job. There's going to be a lot more of them.

[theone718]

10:10 AM on 11/11/2009

Just like I thought. RIght after healthcare Dems will focus on JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS over and over. Otherwise, 2010 will get ugly.

[Bardmess]

02:44 PM on 11/11/2009

Yup. JOBS, hopefully Union jobs/good jobs.

[bannorhill]

12:46 PM on 11/12/2009

Other than government name one business that has grown in the last 20 years and is unionized?

[Drdemocrat]

10:02 AM on 11/11/2009

EXCELLENT!

[MOCONSERVATIVE]

10:25 AM on 11/11/2009

*sip*

[StuManChu]

09:45 AM on 11/11/2009

LOL. A little late there buddy. The best thing you clowns in DC can do is get out of the way. You cannot create anything, much less jobs.

[MOCONSERVATIVE]

10:24 AM on 11/11/2009

They can't get out of their OWN way. This pending cap and trade legislation is putting a huge damper on expenditures on the power grid, because no one know what the rules will be. They are assisting in k!lling our economy all the with PENDING legislation.

[Okieborn]

09:42 AM on 11/11/2009

Bull Sh** !!

[Ramirez]

09:39 AM on 11/11/2009

From Hans Bader:
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Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe, reports the Washington Post. “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe. This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge change from the recent past, in which unemployment was double the American rate in much of Europe.

Unemployment is at 10 percent in France, which refused to adopt a U.S.-style stimulus package, and only 7.6 percent in Germany, which adopted a stimulus package that was smaller relative to its economy than ours was. (Countries that refused to adopt big stimulus packages have fared better than those that imitated President Obama. And the biggest-spending countries have suffered worst in the recession.)

-snip-

Confronted with the specter of new burdens under the health-care bills and global-warming bills backed by the Obama administration, many businesses with the money to do so are afraid to hire people and create jobs lest they be stuck with a large tab for things like health care benefits for newly-hired, less-skilled employees.

The Congressional Budget Office has repeatedly admitted that Obama’s stimulus package will shrink the economy “in the long run.” It contained welfare and repealed welfare reform. Unemployment is higher now than if Congress had voted it down.

http://www.openmarket.org/2009/11/10/unemployment-skyrockets-us-now-beating-european-unemployment-rates/

[Patriot86]

10:29 AM on 11/11/2009

Pass health care or it will not matter...a good bill which begins at once. Then fix trade and offer tax incentives to those who create American jobs in America...close off shoring tax loopholes ...things will get better. We need more than construction jobs, we need to bring back good paying manufacturing jobs and be a country that exports more then we import...otherwise welcome to third world status for America. Make sure the Senate does not strip the amendment to oppose child labor and slave users not being able to import to this country...unsurprisingly, the Business interest don't want this...they want child and slave labor...oh and prosecute and jail a few bankster while you are at it and take your money out of the large banks...credit unions or small community banks are best.

[Qunamngdogs]

06:52 PM on 11/11/2009

26 years....hmmmm now *who* was president 26 years ago?
:gasp: :-X

How come every time we have a republican president, the economy tanks and finance has to be bailed out? (in the 80s, it was S&Ls and wait for it...JUNK BONDS)