Some Difference! 2/17

Trey Smith

15 Although unemployment is the highest it's been since the Great Depression, the federal government should NOT enact any sort of WPA-style program to put millions of people back to work. Under Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, Depression-era unemployment was tackled head on by direct federal hiring to dig subways, build roads, schools, parks, sewers, recreational facilities and public buildings. Oblivious of this history, Democrat Barack Obama maintains that only the private sector can or should create jobs.
~ from Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things Romney and Obama Agree On by Bruce A. Dixon ~

What was one of the biggest campaign issues during the 2010 mid-term elections? It was jobs! The Republicans said that it would be among their chief priorities. Here we are two years later and the GOP has NOT offered one substantive bill to address the unemployment situation!

Bad as that is, the Democrats haven't offered much of anything either. As Dixon points out, our Democratic Party President has adopted the Republican Party talking point that ONLY the private sector can get us out of the job funk.

Obama has had 4 years to address this issue and he has chosen not to. There's no question that the GOP administration of his predecessor set the stage for where we find ourselves today, but Obama has made only feeble efforts to dig us out of the hole. This is no longer a "Bush" problem; it's now an Obama problem too.