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If, instead, Obama had chucked the dunces at Treasury and in his Council of Economic Advisors, and instead asked your Labor Secretary to initiate a wide-ranging $200-billion-per-year jobs program, hiring the unemployed at perhaps $20-25,000 per person to do everything from teach in overcrowded urban schools to laying high-speed rail trackbeds, from cleaning up parks to putting insulation in homes, he could have given jobs to close 8 million people -- people who would have then spent their money on goods and services and helped rally the economy from the bottom up.

Dave Lindorff: Obama Must Dump The Bums In Treasury, End The Wars And Start Leading 2009