Examiner: Obama's jobs bill will follow same old script

In The Examiner, I took a look at the State Of The Union address, particularly keying on Obama's pitch for jobs.

The question is, will it work?

About as well as the previous stimulus bill. Does this help?

Here's my reasoning:

Obama cited the most recent stimulus bill, saying it created or saved some two million jobs. "Two hundred thousand work in construction and clean energy; 300,000 are teachers and other education workers. Tens of thousands are cops, firefighters, correctional officers, first responders. And we're on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year." These jobs Obama cited either are in the public sector or serve it. As before, the job bill will do little to spur private industry, but will make the government itself larger ...

Well, don't just hang around the newsstand reading the headlines and staring at the pictures ... check it out.

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