Businesses do not exist to create jobs.

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47. Everything needs to be an investment for the future.

The stimulus should not be focused on infrastructure simply because it takes too long. We couldn't even fill potholes in a decent period of time and infrastructure needs long term funding and long term planning. This needs to be a long term funding priority.

After two years there should be no unemployment funds, instead there should be partnerships with business to train new employees and assistance with healthcare costs. Government should consult with businesses as to their needs, and tailor college loans towards those fields using accredited institutions.

Big incentives to restart manufacturing here...credits for building high tech plants, 0 repatriation taxes if the funds are used in this way. Efficiency is the way we overcome lower labor costs to compete with China. They are building robots anyway so we might as well do it here. Building things here is also the only way we innovate and push thinking.

I could go on and on but those are my pipe dreams.

As for teachers, police and firefighters...I don't believe in keeping them hired to keep them hired and I do think that localities are most appropriate to determine need. If funds are so short and needed maybe they need to establish a grant system using statistics to justify things and also show results. I like the idea of race to the top, but I can't vouch for execution.

But in terms of what moves this economy and hiring I think certainty is more important than stimulus.