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Exactly how is Obama's Economic Plan going to create 3-4Mil new jobs?
I have looked at the proposal agreed by the lawmakers and I fail to see this thing actually creating the volume of employment that is being touted as a rescue plan. I agree, we should give it a chance....BUT , be warned this plan could backfire and put us deeper in the crapper! There is too much uncertainty about the creation of employment positions....not to mention about 65% is spending.
...I take it you are being sarcastic about his explanation....right?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Did you actually read it? If you did you should be OUTRAGED..... The repugs got away with slashing key parts—billions for education, green jobs, and health care—in favor of tax cuts for the rich.
But this is what was left:
$40 billion to provide extended unemployment benefits through Dec. 31, and increase them by $25 a week; $20 billion to increase food stamp benefits by 14 percent; $3 billion in temporary welfare payments.
$14 billion to give one-time $250 payments to Social Security recipients, poor people on Supplemental Security Income, and veterans receiving disability and pensions.
$46 billion for transportation projects, including $27 billion for highway and bridge construction and repair; $8.4 billion for mass transit; $8 billion for construction of high-speed railways and $1.3 billion for Amtrak; $4.6 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers; $4 billion for public housing improvements; $6.4 billion for clean and drinking water projects; $7 billion to bring broadband Internet service to underserved areas.
$21 billion to provide a 60 percent subsidy of health care insurance premiums for the unemployed under the COBRA program; $87 billion to help states with Medicaid; $19 billion to modernize health information technology systems; $10 billion for health research and construction of National Institutes of Health facilities.
$8 billion in aid to states to defray budget cuts.
About $50 billion for energy programs, focused chiefly on efficiency and renewable energy, including $5 billion to weatherize modest-income homes; $6.4 billion to clean up nuclear-weapon production sites; $11 billion toward a so-called smart electricity grid to reduce waste; $13.9 billion to subsidize loans for renewable energy projects; $6.3 billion in state energy efficiency and clean energy grants; and $4.5 billion to make federal buildings more energy efficient.
$47 billion in state fiscal relief to prevent cuts in state aid to school districts, with great flexibility to use the funds for school modernization and repair; $26 billion to school districts to fund special education and the No Child Left Behind law for students in K-12; $17 billion to boost the maximum Pell Grant by $500 to $5,350; $2 billion for Head Start.
$2.8 billion for homeland security programs, including $1 billion for airport screening equipment.
$4 billion in grants to state and local law enforcement to hire officers and purchase equipment.
Approximately $115 billion for a $400-a-worker, $800-a-couple tax credit in 2009 and 2010. For the last half of 2009, workers could expect to see perhaps $13 a week less withheld from their paychecks starting about June. Millions of Americans who don't make enough money to pay federal income taxes could file returns next year and receive checks. Individuals making more than $75,000 and couples making more than $150,000 would receive reduced amounts.
About $70 billion to spare about 24 million taxpayers from being hit with the alternative minimum tax in 2009. The change would save a family of four an average of $2,300. The tax was designed to make sure wealthy taxpayers can't use credits and deductions to avoid paying any taxes. But it was never indexed to inflation, so families making as little as $45,000 could get significant increases without the change. Congress addresses it each year, usually in the fall.
About $13 billion to provide a $2,500 expanded tax credit for college tuition and related expenses for 2009 and 2010. The credit is phased out for couples making more than $160,000.
$3.7 billion to repeal a requirement that a $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit be paid back over time for homes purchased from Jan. 1 to August 31, unless the home is sold within three years.
$5 billion to extend a provision allowing businesses buying equipment such as computers to speed up its depreciation through 2009.
$2.5 billion to makes sales tax on paid on new car purchases tax deductible.
Source(s): Hope that helps you and also upsets you at the same time. Conservatives in Congress will try to stop everything Obama does—unless they feel heat from voters back home. Can you chip in $10 to run ads telling their constituents how they voted on Obama's stimulus? https://pol.moveon.org/donate/jobs.html?id=15559-1... - Anonymous1 decade ago
it will work by everyone pulling together and making it happen. why did you not watch him on tv? he explained everything.