/sarc

http://mashable.com/2012/04/05/jobs-act-....

Quote:

Obama Signs ‘Game-Changing,’ Crowd-Funding JOBS Act

William Black on JOBS act :
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?opti....

Quote:

Jobs Act 2012 a Recipe for Fraud

Obama saves the day again! All hail Obama!

This is great...oughta suck up whatever loose change is left in the country.

Would that be a rim job or a blow job?

All of this has become a farce.

Goforbroke : you meant ``has been`` a farce right?

Just another way to transfer $$$ to political favorites and BUY votes, mostly for the Left.

More CHANGE turning into ****.

Just like the Alternative Energy KICKBACK fiascos!

We all knew, but, reviving a year old thread to check back in on the obvious

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/e....

By Dina ElBoghdady,
Published: March 28

First few paragraphs...

Quote:

When lawmakers unveiled the carefully named Jobs Act a year ago, backers expected it to get caught up in the typical grind of Capitol Hill: vigorous debate followed by a long wait for a vote that might never happen.

Instead, the legislation sailed through — perhaps too fast. Even supporters say they expected more time to work out the kinks in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, which aimed to help small, private firms raise money and grow so they could hire more workers.

Now, nearly a year after its enactment, major portions of the act are in limbo, and other parts have failed to measure up to the grandiose job-creation promises.

The act underscores how difficult it can be for Washington to spur job creation, even when there’s strong bipartisan consensus on a plan. President Obama hailed it in a Rose Garden ceremony as “exactly the kind of bipartisan action needed” to help the economy. Republicans claimed it as their own. The measure came together months before last year’s election, making it politically difficult to resist a proposal that promised to yield jobs

“It was a short-lived, political fad,” said Simon Johnson, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “There was this combination of wanting to look busy and wanting to create jobs, and skeptics like me never thought it would do anything good.”
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And you thought 'Sequester' meant spending cuts! LOL

Secretary’s Column: Partnering with Communities to Alleviate Poverty

Posted by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, on March 29, 2013 at 1:00 PM

At the U.S. Department of Agriculture we’re working hard to strengthen the economy across rural America – and in recent years, we have seen positive signs of growth.

At the same time, we know that areas of high poverty still exist, and many of these are in our small towns and rural communities. In fact, nine out of ten persistent poverty counties in our nation are in rural America.

That’s why USDA launched the StrikeForce for Rural Growth and Opportunity initiative.

Through StrikeForce, we provide intensive care for communities that suffer from high poverty. USDA identifies areas with over 20 percent poverty for the StrikeForce effort. We join together with communities in these areas that are working to build opportunity for their citizens. Our staff partner with local organizations and civic leaders, providing them with technical support and assistance to help them successfully apply for USDA programs. Read more »

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Our staff partner with local organizations and civic leaders, providing them with technical support and assistance to help them successfully apply for USDA programs.

you mean more food stamps ?

edit: if bill black says it's a fraud; it's a ****ing fraud.

**** you obama

At least they are stimulating the economy with all their vacation spending.

Government doesn't create jobs. Government inefficiently redistributes wealth from citizens to those with government jobs. It's nearly never a net-positive.