http://www.statenews.com To get out of this recession, the government needs to do more to create jobs, help struggling state and local governments such as those in Michigan and help homeowners avoid foreclosures, said Robert Kuttner in a talk in the Worldview Lecture Series on Monday night. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:27:09 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/46832 Mr. Schmid, The government already has failed PRECISELY because it’s spending money trying to end the recession, and the recession began because government was spending money (in both cases money it doesn’t have.) It is impossible to spend one’s way to prosperity. Just ask anyone with credit card debt. Our entire nation has become a bridge loan to nowhere. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:48:45 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/46832 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/46899 The government creates jobs? News to me. The government takes capital from productive sectors of the economy (taxes), takes its cut (pork) and then redistributes the rest to politically-expedient sectors that aren’t doing so well (“green jobs”, et al). Meanwhile, the productive and taxed sector loses capital for maintenance and expansion. Jobs are lost. The looted capital is redistributed towards unproductive and temporary jobs that will vaporize when funding dries up. So how is that creating jobs? Only on a college campus would this be considered “job creation”. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:27:09 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/46899