ijusluvit - thanx for jumping in - your post sure makes sense - why do you think it has taken the president so long to LEAD congress to do the right thing by passing the jobs bill? maybe because congress was concerned about the size of the failure of the original stimulus spending and it's failure to lower the unemployment rate? hmmm? if, as you predict, it would take but a few years for the economy to recover - why didn't that happen as a result of stimulus spending? bush's fault? hmmm. so now we have more stimulus in the form of a jobs bill...but how will the jobs bill help any unemployment beyond the construction industry when the $ is targeted for highway construction and transportation projects? hmmm? and now that much of the fear surrounding the health care bill has confirmed that any small business that employes 50/more employees will have to offer health ins to those employees - we can be sure that there won't be a great deal of hiring among small employers!

your itemizing of afghan withdrawal, leaner defense dept, spending cuts, tax code revision, etc also makes so much sense...but based on the performance of this congress, there seems little hope for logic and/or sensibilities. hmmmmm.