The proposed Jobs Bill. How does it work?

There is no one simple correct answer here, and both you and the 'right wing radio dummies' are partly right, and partly wrong: it just isn't that easy.

The SHORT answer though is that there are a vocal minority of people on the right and left in the USA today who are so 'anti' something that they are willing to sabotage the system to prove their point. For every GOP wacko who says we need to get rid of Obama at all costs and will mess up the economic recovery to make him look bad, there is a Democratic wacko who tries to pin the blame on Bush and pretend the Dems had nothing to do with the mess we're in.

Get the picture? Yes, infrastructure contracts do provide money for private companies to hire people etc, and yes, we need to stop spending "government" money we don't have for things we don't need. But until we stop demonizing each other and start working together to do the right thing (which sometimes involves short-term pain for long term gain) and TEACH OUR CHILDREN to not get back into this situation, we're not going to fix this.

No kiddin'! Stop looking for a magic bullet and remove the beam from your own eye first, then worry about the mote in your neighbors' eyes.

the Obama 'jobs bill' is racist and should be voted down by both parties.

The plain purpose of the Davis-Bacon Act, which the bill is not exempt from, is to prevent low skill workers [majority Black] from getting government paid highway and infrastructure jobs.

thus, the point of the jobs bill is to reward union workers and hope that trickle down economics works from them to the rest of us.

didn't work with the 2009 bill, so i can't see why it would now