Obama's Road to Nowhere Jobs Program

The Democrat solution to nearly every problem consists of:

1. Blame Republicans
2. Throw money at it

Though solution number 2 should more accurately read, “thow other people’s money at it.”

The answer to our cities’ flailing public schools is not more money. It’s better teachers. But “better” teachers is opposed by the teachers unions. Instead, they believe that simply paying bad teachers more money will magically make them better teachers (hint: it won’t).

The answer to reducing our deficit is NOT spending more money on entitlement programs.

The answer to reducing more unemployment is not hiring more government employees.

Even when faced with cold hard facts and reality that refutes what the Democrats are selling, they still insist on trying the same failed money-wastes over-and-over again. Like the lie Dems peddaled that increased spending on roads and bridges would prevent the unemployment rate from rising above 8% (it’s well over 10% now).

Even the state-run media AP has to admit that this program has done nothing to help unemployment numbers:

Ten months into President Barack Obama’s first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found.

Spend a lot or spend nothing at all, it didn’t matter, the AP analysis showed: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how much stimulus money Washington poured out for transportation, raising questions about Obama’s argument that more road money would address an “urgent need to accelerate job growth.”

Obama wants a second stimulus bill from Congress that relies in part on more road and bridge spending, projects the president said are “at the heart of our effort to accelerate job growth.”

Construction spending would be a key part of the Jobs for Main Street Act, a $75 billion second stimulus to revive the nation’s lethargic unemployment rate and improve the dismal job market for construction workers. The House approved the bill 217-212 last month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., worked the floor for an hour; the Senate is expected to consider it later in January.

Of course, the Democrats won’t let a little thing like this prevent them from doing what Dems do: double-down and throw more (of our) money at the issue.