A billion on increasingly endemic STD’s, a billion on food safety, a billion to speed-up family immigration backlogs, these are things that will pump the economy and perhaps only a government can do these things.
And in the marketplace, it’s not the job of government to create jobs. We rely on corporations to do that.
General Motors plans to invest $1 billion of it’s bailout to save jobs in Brazil.
According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government…”
Of course I understand GM is a globalized operation, but the irony stands.