What are politicians really doing about Jobs in the USA?

It is not up to our politicians to create any jobs. However, it IS up to our politicians to foster an environment for healthy economic growth. Right now, there are 28 bipartisan jobs bills gathering dust in the Senate. http://www.gop.gov/ Here is a summary of the Republican jobs plan: Empower Small Business Owners and Reduce Regulatory Burdens: • Require congressional review and approval of any government regulations that have a significant impact on the economy or burden small businesses. • Audit existing and pending regulations to identify and address those that hinder economic growth. Fix the Tax Code to Help Job Creators: • Increase American competitiveness to spur investment and create more American jobs by streamlining the tax code and lowering the tax rate for businesses and individuals including small business owners to no more than 25%. • Reform the tax code to allow American businesses to bring back their overseas profits without having to pay a tax penalty so they can invest in our economy and create American jobs. Increase Competitiveness for American Manufacturers: • Pass the three pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea to create up to 250,000 jobs. • Continue to open new markets to American made products. Encourage Entrepreneurship and Growth: • Modernize our patent system to protect our nation’s innovators, discourage frivolous lawsuits, and expedite patent reviews. • Re-Authorize and improve federal programs and approval processes to streamline development of new products. • Remove barriers to building a first class workforce so that the United States can compete in the global marketplace and lead the way in technological development and growth. Maximize Domestic Energy Production to Ensure an Energy Policy for the 21st Century: • Promote lower energy prices through increased domestic production. • Encourage all forms of energy production. Pay Down America’s Unsustainable Debt Burden and Start Living Within our Means:

dont blame obama blame congeress

I never saw any thing that said they have to do anything. That is called communism. It is the private companies that have to do it.

Not much on either side. They do not practice what they preach. I think politicians worry about making more visible and sudden changes to get votes and that the actions taken to increase jobs may not be quickly visible, so they may not get credit for it. Politicians need to be lobbyists for the people to persuade companies to come back to the US and give more jobs out.

i cant believe the answers you are getting they think that we can change the tax code and cut out all regulations and bingo we are going to be awash in jobs. you can give corporations 0 tax rates and 0 regulations and it will not bring back jobs . the problem is our trade treaties and unable to compeat with third world countries that pays labor in pennies per hour.this is common sense. we need to punish corporation with our tax system and reward them for jobs created here. get rid of all free trade treaties there is no such thing. if you want to understand and see the problem , go to any sea port and count the number of oversees container that are sitting never to leave the USA because we dont manufacture here and we do little exporting so containers that come in are just piling up in these sea ports.