A Layman’s Guide to the President’s Jobs Speech: Caroline Baum
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Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s face it: If the president hada plan to create jobs, he wouldn’t have kept it under wrapsuntil now. Why take flak from Republicans and heat from thepublic if you have what it takes to turn the economy and labormarket around?
Barack Obama doesn’t have a plan to create jobs. Nor isthat his job. The government’s role is to provide an environmentin which the private sector will create them. That should be hisgoal.