As Unemployment rates linger around and take their sweet time to drop to somewhat acceptable numbers across the United States, you have to ask yourself is the $814 billion dollar economic stimulus program working. Well if I was to answer that question I would have to say yes and no. If it was you wouldn’t have so much focus on jobs in candidates political campaigns right now, And if it wasn’t the job market wouldn’t be opening back up like it is even though the process is slow.
Although as a whole the country is doing better than years past, like 2009 when 650,000 jobs were being lost a month, it’s not being seen in the communities across the nation which gives candidates fuel to add to their political flames. Television ads are being run from both democrats and republicans pointing the finger of blame for the situation at hand. But what does that accomplish nothing, it just puts the blame on one group of people when they all are guilty in some way.
I think the unemployment issues need the political leader to come together as one government to work to get the main points of the situation worked out. But all the finger pointing from side to side has to stop if they want things to get any better. When you have one group of people trying to do something to help a situation and you have the people who oppose their view criticizing their effort you don’t get anywhere. To me President Obama and his administration did what they could to combat the problem of unemployment with their stimulus program, but the end result for some people like myself was that they only shuffled out money at the situation to get brownie point with the public but didn’t help the unemployment rate shift more to a favorable position. I know that solving a major problem like this takes time, but the progress of the stimulus program is taking time to surface and for people that are still unemployed this is discouraging. They want the progress more visible and faster.
But with a government that so divided on so many issues, programs like the economic stimulus program would have trouble reaching favor with citizens because Washington can’t even agree with each other to make it function right. I not saying that the stimulus program is not working because it is helping slowly. But with such a divided government will we ever see days of an honest living soon? Time will tell but for now we will continue to hear bickering and blame calling.
In my fellow classmates editorial blog titled, Unemployment Hurts he stresses on the pros and cons of the unemployment rates. I do agree with the fact that employment rates are slowly increasing from earlier years. In one of my recent blog’s, I researched the ways that the Recovery Act and many different tax credit programs are helping families and small business recover from the strains of the fallen economic situation that this country is in.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the political parties are pointing the finger at the opposing parties’ opinions, but merely as means of attack advertising to win more votes during the most recent elections.
Getting political leaders together as one government seems to be impossible because they would have to agree on every situation at hand and neither political party believes that the views of the opposing party would work. Political parties have different priorities they want to see accomplished when they are voted into office. If one party is in office for one term and loses in the next election, then the priorities will change.
I have to disagree with the argument that the stimulus program was just brownie points to win the favor of the public. I have noticed the economy slowly rising out of the shadows of the recession. For example, I have recently seen numerous construction projects, which to me is not a sign of recession but rather states using federal and state taxes to provide jobs to people that would probably be unemployed.
Unfortunately stimulating the economy will take time and has put stress and burdens on many families and businesses. I believe the Recovery Act has provided many different programs to help these families and business get through this tough economic time and as i.house has said, “only time will tell”.
In my fellow classmates editorial blog titled, Unemployment Hurts he stresses on the pros and cons of the unemployment rates. I do agree with the fact that employment rates are slowly increasing from earlier years. In one of my recent blog’s, I researched the ways that the Recovery Act and many different tax credit programs are helping families and small business recover from the strains of the fallen economic situation that this country is in.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the political parties are pointing the finger at the opposing parties’ opinions, but merely as means of attack advertising to win more votes during the most recent elections.
Getting political leaders together as one government seems to be impossible because they would have to agree on every situation at hand and neither political party believes that the views of the opposing party would work. Political parties have different priorities they want to see accomplished when they are voted into office. If one party is in office for one term and loses in the next election, then the priorities will change.
I have to disagree with the argument that the stimulus program was just brownie points to win the favor of the public. I have noticed the economy slowly rising out of the shadows of the recession. For example, I have recently seen numerous construction projects, which to me is not a sign of recession but rather states using federal and state taxes to provide jobs to people that would probably be unemployed.
Unfortunately stimulating the economy will take time and has put stress and burdens on many families and businesses. I believe the Recovery Act has provided many different programs to help these families and business get through this tough economic time and as Isiah House has said, “only time will tell”.