How Exactly Does A President Create Jobs?

The best that a president can do is ask congress to pass a jobs bill, but if congress says no, then what is he supposed to do?

Yes, he can put pressure on congress, but that alone does not create jobs.

1) Spend money
2) Hire people
3) Loan money

The president cannot loan money nor can he hire people.

The president hires the vast majority of federal employees.
All manner of administrative offices loan money, including the small business administration, HUD, and Agrigculture. And then there's both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The defense department has HUGE amounts of money at their disposal to hire, spend, and to some extent "loan".

The president has alot of levers to pull, and big ones are in Housing and student loans.

He's hiring as many people as he can, but even that is no creating a job. Congress needs to appropriate the money in order to do that.

You've seen the budget right? It's huge. He has a very large amount of discretion on exactly how to spend it. You don't really think that congress dictates staffing levels for the whole government?

You mean he directly hires everyone in the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, U.S. Customs, Justice Department. U.S. Marshals, etc.?

Funny.

My father worked for almost 30 years as a federal employee and not once did he ever meet any President. No President ever resided or visited where he worked on a regular basis. His performance reviews weren't seen by the President of the United States, whomever he may be.

I agree that congress is not being responsive. But that is only half the equation. The President never wants to take a risk and really get out and push. Not "mention" or "throw something out", but really champion what we need. Chicken or egg?

In this case we can never know what is possible. The President has never really gone on a full court press and engaged the public in a strong manner. I am convinced that while such an effort would at first be a storm, that is the *only* way to get to a better place in this country. Take a serious issue, take a risk, champion, and keep fighting and messaging and if the fight is for what the people really need they will eventually come around and in the process the Democrats would regain the momentum.

employers to hire illegal workers and stop tax breaks for exporting jobs.

Not the president. The president cannot declare anything illegal nor cancel tax breaks. The Congress makes the laws.

do something. Take GWB he got everything he wanted buy claiming Democrats were either not supporting the troops or coddling terrorists.

GWB got tax cuts and wars passed. Two of the easiest things in the world to get passed in congress.

are the two hottest issues in the upcoming elections he could do plenty. If he would hammer on those issues I guarantee he would get overwhelming public support and even Teabagger support and could persuade Congress to act. He would also show the public what obstructionist assholes the Republicans are. You know why they don't have severe penalties for hiring illeagal workers, the Republicans want cheap labor to drive down wages and employment and the Democrats think they will get votes.

Americans are sick and tired of. Those three issues are also ones that most of the Teabaggers would agree on. But no neither the Democrats or Republicans will ever do anything about them, they are all bought and paid for.

Obama has Blue Dog Democrats, conservative Democrats, and Democrats from evenly divided or Republican leaning districts to deal with.

And he's been using it.

But, your point is not lost on many. Which is why his approval rating is 20-30 points higher than Congress's.

everyone knows the president has enormous influence over legislation, that's why during the primaries they all debated their legislative proposals and no one says "duh, laws are passed by Congress, duh, so why are the presidentail candidates talking about it."

That's why everyone calls it Obamacare and no one says "duh, it should be called Pelosicare."

to pass a stimulus that was large enough and targeted effectively.

Indeed, it would appear that Romer's recommendation's on it may not even have crossed the president's desk!

Plenty of us who were paying attention and doing our homework warned that this would happen- and were pissed off at what we foresaw at the time.

They all line up against him on almost every major vote.

It's quite simple. Supply vs. Demand. There isn't demand because people don't have money. Instead the government borrows money and then
increases government spending, gives the money to businesses. And, still people don't have money so they don't buy goods and create demand.

comes from Congress.

Without Congressional approval on the funding, it will be as effective as NCLB was last decade.

NCLB was passed by Congress and signed by Bush.

However, it wasn't funded at all, and languished for 8 years. Then it was criticized as not working. Maybe if it was funded properly in the first place, back when it was first enacted, it would have succeeded.

You can be sure that the Republicans will try to block any funding of any jobs program, meaning that the Democrats will need 60 votes to overcome any filibuster, just to bring it to a final yes-no vote where then a majority can pass it.

Now that we're full swing into campaign mode, you think any Republicans will actually vote with the Democrats on cloture?

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Sure...they could add to the govt payroll, but doing so does nothing in the helping to create jobs in the private sector. Until company's see an incentive to add to their payrolls, the ecoonomy will not cycle back up and grow.

Government can only lay the groundwork of economic inventives to promote private sector growth.

he simply needs to declare more jobs.

So why aren't THEY creating more jobs????!!! :silly: *at least that's something that somebody ought to be asking the Republicans.....not that they will, of course.

He could have created millions of jobs to offset those lost in the financial debacle, and handed McCain and the Republicans the easy victory.


Maybe it's not that easy? Naw, screw it. The President can create hundreds of thousands, millions, of new jobs, with the snap of his fingers.