First of all, who is "they"?
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> <justifiedright@> wrote:
> >
> > That's why I'm scoffing at the idea that council is responsible for
> > job creation.
There are programs, set up. One, is recreation! The other is where
are all the grants, out there? What is Asbury Works? An employment
agency? I remember when kids, cut grass, delivered newspapers,
babysat, life-guarded, etc. Here, in AP, there WERE jobs, when we had
a fully loaded boardwalk, an IN-use, Convention Hall, movie-houses,
with concession stands, ushers, etc. GONE! Even the movie house in
Seaview Square, that had been there, for years! My daughter, had a
job at the Palace, at 14! The lady who ran the prize parlor, next to
the merry-go-round, CALLED me, because, I wouldn't hear of my
"bourgie" daughter, with her $800.00 Fuji-12 Speed, dirtying her
hands, in there! The year was 1979! The kid begged me so much, I let
her do it! My college age sons, worked either as camp counselors or
out there at AT&T, with me! That's gone, too! I see trouble brewing!
> >
> > FDR used MASSIVE government spending to create jobs (was only to be
> > temporary by the way, ended up permenant).
> >
> > Certainly no one is seriously suggesting the City council undertake
> > massive spending.
>
> Those were extraordinary times and called for Keynesian solutions
> (although FDR disagreed with Keynes).
>
> Government's role is to create the conditions that permit job creation
> . That may be beyond the scope of a small local governing body and is
> on a county, if not state level. If there are special circumstances,
> as I suspect there are here, then local government has a role. It does
> not necessarily call for spending. Let's say incentives. My entire
> point is that we have a local government and elected officials. it is
> their job to balance the budget, increase rateables and whatever. They
> come up with the solutions, which may include fleecing developers. You
> can't look to someone else all the time. They need to set up to the
plate.
>
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