Does the Stimulus Package Include a Job for You?

Not only do we need more meaningful, higher paying jobs that do better than put someone in the lower middle to middle class, we also need those people that ARE working to stop HOARDING their money and go out and spend!

Need a new couch? Don't sit on that money if you have it - go down to your local furniture store and buy that new coach! Help a local merchant stay in business and help him keep his staff!

Have an extre grand and want that new flat screen HD TV? Get out there and buy it! It'll help keep someone you don't care about from losing their job, at least for another month or so.

The people that have the money to spend but don't spend it are just as responsible for this mess as the banks that wrote bad mortgages. Yes, it is a common thing to hoard resources during a recession, but c'mon people - do your part and spend some of that money on things you need. Help out!

Now, I realize my view may be considered radical, but come on here. Employers not hiring staff when they actually need to so the staff they have gets spread too thin. Or some of these bozos want to hire someone but instead of hiring the guy with specific skills they want to hire someone that knows EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN and hire him for half of what they'd pay the guy with the specialization.

Small business owners, buy that couch - hire someone if your workload requires it instead of being little scaredy cats, sitting on the sidelines waiting for the government or someone else to bail things out. Do some real WORK instead of the superficial crap that everyone is outputting now. Quit putting lipstick on the pig.

America needs an attitude adjustment. It starts with EVERYONE. Those working, those not working, those who do the hiring, everybody. If we don't all pull together and help each other out during this time, everything Obama said on inauguration day was a waste of time and breath.

I'm sure the package will have *some* $12-an-hour jobs, but that might be good enough for some unemployed people to regain the spring in their step that they lost and at least feel productive.

As for employed people hoarding money, I'd like to think that they're being prudent - at least for the time being. I know that if I sensed even the smallest of possibilities that I would lose my job (and I've been in that position before), I'd be scrutinizing every dollar that was going out. Now is that selfish? No. Responsible? Absolutely! If I'm spending for stuff I can't afford unless I charge it, and then I have trouble paying the money back (maybe because of a layoff), I've done a disservice to my lender, and, of course, my family. Further, if I put myself in a position where I default on my mortgage, I have potentially hurt the lending industry and my neighbors, whose property values may go down because my old house will probably sell for less just so the bank can recover the debt it underwrote.

Honestly, I don't find your views radical. In spite of all the tales of irresponsibility coming out of the business world over the last year, I have faith that there are plenty of responsible business owners who will add to their payrolls and open their checkbooks - when the time is right.

And yes, we're all in this together!

The key to moving up the ladder, continues to rest upon the 3-legged-Stool: 1) Planning 2) Preparation 3) Purpose

I'll gladly take a $12 hour construction job, while Continuing to fortify my 3-legged Stool. Further, I'll continue to Troll for hidden opportunities. Go Entrepreneurship!

My therapists are encouraging me to find some job, some where, even if it is cooking hamburgers at McDonald's.

At this point, a $12.00 an hor job is far better than I am already "earning." If one were offered me, I would take it, and then prove myself competent enough to take a position higher up the ladder.