Democratic party spin on job creation

In listening to the Obama spin doctors tell me that the rise in unemployment from 8.2% to 8.3% is "good news" I thought that I would help out by proposing my own round of job stimulus ideas to assist the Dimocratic party:

• Free education. As much as anyone wants. The world can't have too many Ph.D.'s in “Multicultural Interpretive Puppetry Arts!”
•  Full employment. Everyone gets a job. A government job. With a union. That way, "work" won't require...you know, actual "WORK."
• Raise the minimum wage to $250 an hour. That way, EVERYBODY can be rich. Yay, us!
• Reduce the workweek. 40 hours a week is just too much. Mondays? Ugh. People shouldn't have to get up that early. Try 22 hours. After all, daytime TV won’t watch itself!
• Reduce the retirement age. France is proposing 60 years as the cutoff. In Greece, the average is 57. They suck. We are Americans. We can do better. Reduce it to 29.
• Kiss-a-thons at Chik-Fil-A count as work towards your welfare entitlement
• Reparation payments for people that were forced, over the course of their lifetimes to work for "the man."
• Tax dead people. Exemptions will be granted for dead people that vote Dumocrat.

Fortunate Son - "Poor" in America...

Okay - so I was reading some census bureau factoids the other day about how bad "poor" people in America have it. Here are some facts that may be of interest:

46% of poor households own their own home -and the average size is 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms
The average "rooms per person" ratio for poor households is 2.0.

The average poor American had more square feet of living space than a middle class person living in London, Paris, Vienna or Athens.

76% of poor households have air conditioning - 30 years ago only 36% of the entire US population had air conditioning.

75% of poor households own a car. 30% own two cars or more.

97% have color TV, 63% have cable or satellite, nearly 80% have a DVR

89% report having "enough" food to eat, and poor children actually eat MORE meat than middle class kids.

And given all this - 50% of Americans don't pay ANY income tax. At all.

So if we want to attack the deficit, wouldn't it then make sense NOT to increase taxes on wealthy people (I won't even go into to how little you have to have for the gov't to say you are "wealthy"!) and use them to create jobs for the "poor" - and then tax all away at those that don't pay anything currently?

I mean - it just makes numerical sense irregardless of your belief systems.

It would seem that CCR got it wrong when they wrote:

Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves,
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale...

It would seem that the "poor" have mastered the art of the rummage sale.