Won't the trade unions, developers and contractors get the jobs in this stimulus?

Spot on sweetheart.

Yes, a lot of the money for construction goes to the workers who get the new jobs instead of to the wealthy who get their money from the gains on their assets. Whereas reducing taxes just provides a little extra money to those people who already have a lot of it.

The problem with our existing economy is that the rich have so much wealth that they don't perform any labor and also the poor are so poorly treated that they don't learn the skills necessry to perform skilled labor. Acodingly, two large segments of our population are not part of our labor pool. The stimulus will bring some of the poor into the labor pool but it does nothing to bring the rich into the labor pool.

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Great Question !

Too few people realize that Obama intends to artificially " create " ( NOT save ) 3-4 million government & private jobs.

Obama's " stimulus package " will manufacture jobs requiring $ 100,000 in annual government funding to create, subsidize & fund a job with an annual salary of $ 50,000

Instead of having road crews with 5 guys fixing one pothole with 2 guys leaning on their shovels ......Obama's plan will pay for 10 guys to fix the same pothole with 7 guys leaning on their shovels

Obama's plan will create union " featherbedding " jobs which existed though the '60s where, for example, union rules dictated that one " coalman " ( the guy who shovels coal into the furnace of the train ) had to be assigned to each train despite the fact that virtually all trains had stopped using coal furnaces for power amost 20 years before that

Obama's plan will also create " makework " government jobs for obsolete archaic positions like office clerks to carry inner office communication memos from desk to desk despite the fact that offices now use emails.

Obama's plan will create duplicate jobs & " busywork " jobs where you will have 3 different federal agency investigators investigating the same pharmacy at the same time for the same offense or the ultimate nightmare.......2 schoolteachers per class so they can relieve each other every so often and so the students can get 2 differnet viewpoints

Obama wants Socialist control of our jobs & lives and that would ruin America.

The first part of your paragraph I agree partly with. Construction is still good because they hire low skilled workers as well, but more importantly the money and things they make stay in the country.

I would encourage more spending on lower skilled jobs. The problem here is that it is very hard to do.

IT re-retraining programs may be a good idea, but the idea of the stimulus is to put in the hands of people who will spend it the fastest, that's the number one goal, as well as on unused resources. The number two goal is to spend it in this country. The number three goal is to spend it wisely on necessary investment. In some sense, if people spend the money here, it is more important just to spend, regardless of what you spend it on. It sounds odd, but that is the economic theory.

The idea of the stimulus is not necessarily to 'help' anyone in particular or any group of people. That is incidental.

I think the union angle is weak since Unions only are less than 10% of the jobs, and non-government unions are just a few percent of the economy.

Not so. . .

First off, the stats on the construction jobs was done before the housing collapse. Many construction workers are also out of work because fewer people are able to get the money to build. No money, no building.

Second off, it takes more than just the construction workers to do all this. One will need administration staff (payroll doesn't write itself, you know), human resources, and many other individuals. And the supplies need to come from somewhere. The construction workers don't carry the supplies with them - they need to order them from suppliers. And they are going to need people to purchase the items from vendors, and the vendors need manufacturers to make the products, and so on.

One must look past the obvious - it takes more than just the guys we see to do the work. This is where the "stimulus" will happen, and that is how it is supposed to work.

I.T. is essentially a service industry. Putting people into school is not directly going to affect the economy. Educators subscribe to the idea that education is a holy goal in its own right, but very little education is directly vocational. If it was economically a good idea, then the employers would either pay for it, or provide the training themselves.

The idea of the economic stimulus package is not as part of a social welfare fund. It is to kick start the major industries.

What is your source for the quote that construction jobs are growing "faster than average"? And what exactly does that mean? I work in home construction. And I can assure you that fewer homes are being built. So, there are fewer construction jobs.

And anyone who believes that construction jobs are "low skill" has never attempted to construct anything.

I know that a lot of jobs are UNION jobs and of course the UNIONS will get their dues..last year I paid $1,000 Union Dues~so I know they get their share..It will most likely be a lot of *PORK* in these construction jobs as all Government Jobs are loaded with Pork

In the end it won't effect our recession but Billions will be wasted on

*make work* projects.

Not if your white, Obamas economic advisers wants only minorities to get these jobs, like Illegals and women

Of course its payback season. What people should be looking at, is out of the 850,000,000.000 spent just how little really goes to building roads and bridges and schools.

It might just shock some.