Obama to discuss economic ideas with CEOs

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12. The problem is....

That the goal of CEO's is to maximize shareholder value.

They do that by finding ways to produce more with less. And that "less" is jobs/employees as well as less salary and pay for current employees.

The way the economy will work and create more jobs is to get more money in the hands of people buying goods and services that those companies make.

CEO's aren't going to just magically create jobs if people aren't buying their products, and even if they do they need to figure out how to meet that demand with less spending on their part.

Infrastructure spending does not need to be profitable, it just needs to be productive.

In short, CEO's by definition are going to try to find ways to create fewer jobs, not more, and to take money out of the economy (ie their employees) not put more into it.