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  Jerks

  It is really funny how I can sit all morning reading about April Fools jokes, but the second I opened my Grist e-mail my heart absolutely stopped. I sank in my chair and almost stopped breathing until a coworker heart me gasping in the other room and said "it's April fools dummy." Fool me once Grist...

  Well played.On Gore will run for president as independent, sources tell Grist posted 1 year, 7 months ago 34 Responses

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  The Middle Path

  Obviously if there was any easy solution to creating jobs then we would have done it already - the fact of the matter is that nothing in the real world is EVER that easy.

  That being said, like just about everything in life, there is a happy medium here. Obviously Chinese workers with teaspoons would create jobs at the expense of the larger goal. But when it comes to choosing between spending on defense vs. spending on public transportation, education or healthcare (or, my personal favorite, green technology) then these are all very positive goals, and the amount of job creation each one of them fosters is definitely something which can be taken into account(along with many other factors) when deciding which one of them deserves that 1 billion dollars.

  As someone from Los Angeles, i can certainly see more relevance in a working public transportation system than in another smart missile to be sent over to Iraq - and the job creation is a fairly minuscule part of that equation, but an important one nonetheless.

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  On If we want to create jobs, why aren't we spending on mass transit? posted 1 year, 8 months ago 10 Responses