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Post by packerconvert on Nov 6, 2009 12:21:53 GMT -5
We need economic growth before we have job growth.  Shouldn't it be the opposite? WTF?  |
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Post by brewerbruce on Nov 6, 2009 12:55:24 GMT -5
Is this Leroy Jethro Gibbs from the hit CBS series, NCIS you speak of?
Job growth is always the last factor to a recovering or stable economy. I agree though that if people don't have jobs how the heck can they go out and buy things
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Post by TW on Nov 6, 2009 13:39:16 GMT -5
Jobs within the infrastructure should be a high priority. Instead of laying off police, fire, city workers, road workers, and teachers, we should take care of business repairing the infrastructure, and there will be residual jobs and benefits related to more safety, security, and education, that will all lead us in a good direction.
We keep cutting services intent on saving money in taxes, and all we do is swell the unemployment rolls with more people who aren't finding jobs.
Like they said in Janesville, when the GM plant closed, it wasn't the 1,800 jobs at GM that were concern. It was the roughly 5,000 to 6,000 total jobs that would be lost across the board in various areas, and the foreclosures on homes, and the fall out from the lack of that money in the economy.
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Post by gopackgo2000 on Nov 6, 2009 14:11:21 GMT -5
Jobs within the infrastructure should be a high priority. Instead of laying off police, fire, city workers, road workers, and teachers, we should take care of business repairing the infrastructure, and there will be residual jobs and benefits related to more safety, security, and education, that will all lead us in a good direction. We keep cutting services intent on saving money in taxes, and all we do is swell the unemployment rolls with more people who aren't finding jobs. Like they said in Janesville, when the GM plant closed, it wasn't the 1,800 jobs at GM that were concern. It was the roughly 5,000 to 6,000 total jobs that would be lost across the board in various areas, and the foreclosures on homes, and the fall out from the lack of that money in the economy. Wait a minute...where is the government laying people off? |
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Post by TW on Nov 6, 2009 15:15:25 GMT -5
City crews are being cut back, police and fire departments are getting personnel reductions, it's hitting almost every phase of municipal, and county governments in most areas.
Rockford's fire department recently took unpaid leave days as a monthly investment into the future, because the funding was being reduced to a point where they would have had to have cut their crews per truck from four to three, and they would have cut the EMT services right down the middle.
They also had a mandate to reduce the police department, but thanks to a federal grant, they can stay as they are, for now, and even at the level we're at, they are understaffed.
This is playing out everywhere I'm afraid. Lost taxes due to foreclosures, unpaid taxes in general, and reductions in sales tax cuts are fueling worsening conditions.
Yes, a lot of government employees are being sent home, but not at a federal level yet, from what I see.
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Post by townhalleditor on Nov 7, 2009 0:15:15 GMT -5
Government lay offs would have been much worse across the nation if TARP monies were not used to shore up several, dysfunctional State budgets.
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Post by TMWight on Nov 7, 2009 8:38:11 GMT -5
Jobs within the infrastructure should be a high priority. Instead of laying off police, fire, city workers, road workers, and teachers, we should take care of business repairing the infrastructure, and there will be residual jobs and benefits related to more safety, security, and education, that will all lead us in a good direction. We keep cutting services intent on saving money in taxes, and all we do is swell the unemployment rolls with more people who aren't finding jobs. Like they said in Janesville, when the GM plant closed, it wasn't the 1,800 jobs at GM that were concern. It was the roughly 5,000 to 6,000 total jobs that would be lost across the board in various areas, and the foreclosures on homes, and the fall out from the lack of that money in the economy. Wait a minute...where is the government laying people off? You don't read the paper do you.... |
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