Obama's Jobs Summit PR Stunt?

The White House says the purpose of the jobs summit is to find new ways to stimulate job growth, but some critics are saying it's just a PR stunt for President Obama. Chip Reid reports.

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[MissShazLondon]

Such a controversial topic both on comment boards and on the streets. It's so easy to blame someone else in power and claim all attempts at a solution to be a PR stunt. As by4now2 said, these things aren't problems that can be solved overnight. There will be negative repercussions to any decision Obama makes as there are significant opportunity costs associated with them.

[captaindiesalot]

yay:

Look, you're another idiot. I was there, I know what happened. There WERE tax increases in just about EVERY YEAR after the initial tax cuts. You Democrats only know how to do ONE THING: TAX & SPEND. It didn't work during the last Great Depression, WHICH you caused.

Socialists are evil fools.

[yayo803]

Reagan left one of the biggest federal deficits ever.. also when he left office where were in a recessions.. so to liberals and any smart american.. failure

[captaindiesalot]

by4now2:

Tax Cuts "ineffective" huh. Right, the Reagan tax cuts resulted in the LARGEST INCREASE in employment history. But, hey, to a Liberal, this is a failure.

So, Tax increases and new government spending has worked, has it.

[by4now2]

republicans has been sreaming tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. Yet, it has been proven ineffective. Lets give OUR president some time to fix this mess he inherited from the "tax cuts" party. He's a man, not a magician. Patients people...PATIENTS.

[benympls]

You in call names instead of addressing the issues i raised, over the past 30 years taxes have been going down(maybe you'd want to see more but none the less they've gone down)and wages did NOT increase. If you go back to the last gilded age where regulation was almost non-existence & income tax didnt exist, and yet VERY little trickled down instead we had billionaires & children working in factories(to be a billionaire in those days would be like being a trillionaire today).

[2366951]

Now we have limited funds for job creation, but we didn't have limited funds when they passed the stimulus packages?They say the unemployment rate is 10.2%, but when you factor in the people who didn't file or have settled for a part-time job the unemployment rate could be as high as 17.5%.Obama has spent 2 to 3 times more to date than any other administration, but NOW we have limited funds.

[captaindiesalot]

beny:

You're a fool. Small business is most responsible for Capital Formation is and Employment. Corporations are in business to MAKE MONEY & PROFITS. How's that for a concept you idiot?

What is needed is an environment where small businesses can become successful and grow and allow their owners to become rich and their employment roles to become large.

[captaindiesalot]

If the President wants to create jobs, it's really easy: 1. Permanent Tax Cuts 2. Stop automatic spending increases; with Defense as the exception. 3. Eliminate the proposed H.Care & Cap n Trade Bills 4. Cut Regulations across the board 5. Tort Reform 6. Destroy the FED; Gold Standard 7. Teach the 3 R's; allow Tax Credits 4 private schools 8 Move to a 100% transaction tax system 9. Control the Border 10. Eliminate All Benefits of Illegal Immigrant access to our social welfare system

[redmoonspider]

What a sh#t sandwich this guy has had to deal with for a year.

...and when Donald Trump says your government needs to "force the big banks to lend money to businesses and developers" on FOX. What does that tell you?