America Still Needs Jobs

First Posted: 03/ 7/11 11:45 AM
Updated: 03/ 7/11 12:31 PM

It was back in late September that I launched my "America Needs Jobs" series for The Huffington Post.

Then as now, no issue seemed of more importance to this country -- politically, economically and morally -- than jobs.

Just that week, President Barack Obama had provided this excuse for his do-almost-nothing approach to the crisis: "We are willing to look at any idea that's out there that we think will help," he said at a CNBC town hall on the economy. "But we've got to do so in a responsible way. We've got to make sure that whatever it is that we're proposing gives us the best bang for the buck. A lot of ideas that look good on paper, when you start digging into them it turns out that they're more complicated and they may end up not working the way they're supposed to."