Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

What is wrong with our elected officials? Have they lost their minds or are they really that bad at math and economics? Is it because most of them have never actually run a business or worked a job outside of a law office or outside of Washington? How hard is it to understand that the one thing, the only thing that will make it better for Main Street is Jobs!!!

Let’s stop all of the talk about a Climate Change Bill or a Financial Reform Bill. Just stop it. You guys aren’t smart enough to come up with anything that will really work, even if there was a problem. Let’s focus on creating jobs, and then after we get some tax base built back up, then, and only then, can we talk about anything else.

Are you ready Washington? I’m going to give you the simplest and most straightforward jobs program you’ve ever seen. Give every small business ($100M in revenue and less) a $5000 rebate for every new hire that they employee for a minimum of 6 months. There, nothing complicated, no mental gymnastics, just plain and simple. Take the group that hires the most people and reward them to do a lot of it.

Now, I can hear the cries of the budgetary hawks, “Where are we going to get the money for this?” Okay, here is where the math and accounting skills come in, so for those in Washington I’ll go slowly. Right now, we the taxpayers are paying people on average $250 per week in unemployment. That comes to $6000 for 24 weeks, or 6 months. So, what we will be doing is paying employers to hire people with the same money that would have been used for their unemployment. Oh my, goodness, I’m a genius…Not! This idea is just basic common sense that one of our contributors came up with months ago.

Wait there’s more…not only will we be saving $1000, but it won’t cost taxpayers $5000 because the people that get hired will be paying taxes. It’s almost like the taxpayers will be getting interest on their investment before they pay for it. Think about what this could do for the consumer led economy.

So, I have one question…Why haven’t we seen this bill brought in front of the House? Why hasn’t one Congressperson made mention of this? I’m baffled!