These are job losses not seen since the Great Depression. And no body wants to get this scary again:
It seems to me we can pour money all day long into economic development but the best way and maybe the only way to get out of the mess we are in is to spur private business. Not until private business is able to flourish, or at least start-up, will we see improvements in our unemployment situation and also in our economy. Sure we need national programs to get infrastructure going again but we have to have a private industry that is able to operate alongside and independently of federal programs.This shouldn't contradict stimulus spending in the least bit. I can't think of a time in the last 100 years when tax dollars didn't go toward private industry. That doesn't make it socialist, though Fox News and the GOP has suddenly changed their stance on the use of federal money since George Bush left office. But, really, get over the childish 'I'm a better American than you' b.s. and start contributing to your country. This goes for everyone and not just political parties. There's nothing wrong with a federal stimulus program that tackles both public and private industry's current woes and neither has to call for the total eradication of the other.
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