bobbo, economics is the dismal science for a reason says:

#15–Ah Yea==Joe the Plumber????? Do you support Palin as well?

Its one thing to be “conservative” as well all should be regarding all things “financial” but Joe the Plumber is so faulty in so many ways.

You are goofing on us right?

Jobs = a function of the world economy. USA == OF NECESSITY == must decline in prosperity as the worlds prosperity gets “equaled out” among the new one billion Chinese Market, the new one billion India Market, and so forth.

World economy is not a zero sum game==but it is not infinitely expandable either.

OUR government should “fight for” jobs rather than fling them overseas. When easy to fix things are left broken ((Mexican truckers in the USA for instance – or troops on foreign soil)), our future will be more bleak than it of necessity would have been.

Gary, the dangerous infidel says:

I don’t know what all the fuss is about jobs. It’s really pretty easy to get a job, if you just take the time to fill out this form.

God will send you a job directly through the interwebitubes (it comes as an email attachment), and then you can quickly get back to things that really matter, like praying for deliverance from the liberal agenda.

brm says:

#21 bobbo:

“World economy is not a zero sum game==but it is not infinitely expandable either.”

It’s probably effectively infinite.

As in, creation of wealth would chug along until the earth is dismantled for raw material, atom by atom.

bobbo, economics is the dismal science for a reason says:

#25–brm==no, not even then. You see, the earth’s population is not made up of “economic units” but rather it is made up of PEOPLE. You know people. Religious, tribal, superstitious, organized into governments, etc. We’d need a supercomputer to model it of course but I doubt even if all the variables could be adequately identified, modeled, weighted etc that the world market could be shown to act in an ever increasing net worth to all, not even atom by atom. But lets talk again after everyone in five years does admit peak oil was reached next year? ((Ok–make it 10 or 15 years or gas at $20/gal even though yes, atoms of oil exist locked up in permashale.))

#26–Ah Yea==thank you—but you still scare me.

jccalhoun says:

He says “Support start-ups, support entrepreneurs..” and Calacanis says “That’s why I invest in them.” Well the left sees the start ups and those that invest in them as the problem.

They call it “Corporate Greed”, “Fat Cat giveaways” etc.

ummm… what?
Supporting startups is pretty much the opposite of “corporate greed” and “fat cat giveaways.” When someone says “startups” I think of the little guy who wants to start his or her own company not the companies that have been unregulated and merged so much that they are “too big to fail.” Giving companies that give their executives multimillion dollar bonuses is what I call “corporate greed” and “fat cat giveaways” not supporting someone who wants to start a company.

realdeal says:

Hey, this is a cut & paste job. What actually happened was somebody asked Leo what he will do at the next Apple event. So the first part you missed was “screams like a girl and leads the crowd in a chant of…”.

bac says:

Jobs and spending are tied together. If you want jobs, more spending is necessary.

The people with money need to start spending the money.

Products need to be sold in order for more to be made. The more products that need to be made the more workers it takes to make the products.

The government can ignite some spending by creating jobs that build bridges, roads and rails.

Tax breaks for companies are nice but do not ignite hiring if customers are not buying.

Tax breaks for individuals do not help in times like these because the people will apply the tax break to rent or food.

bac says:

#34 — “And where does the government get this money? It prints it through the Fed.”

Two ways come to mind.
1) The normal way which is to have China fund the programs.

2) Make people whine by cutting back on programs like Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Education and some research projects that can be delayed.

Thanks for the correction. Definitely, people with money need to spend their own money.

Uncle Patso says:

# 1 Jim w.:
“The real question is jobs created by the government or by private industry?”

I don’t think someone who has been out of work for a year CARES! Either one will get his or her family off the street, fill their bellies and put clothes on their backs…