Economic Stimulus - Will it help photographers find a job?

[canonetc]

No, I think the Stimulus plan might not help photographers as a whole per se, except those already employed as City, State or Federal staffers who will document the roads-building process.

People will still get married, even on a budget, so consider wedding photography.
Cheers,
Chris

 

[Krosya]

The news media spreads all this doom and gloom. Meanwhile real people are still going to work and building houses and the mall parking lots are full. I think half this "collapse" is psychological and set upon us by a careless, immoral, and incompetent press. Not one outlet has done any digging or research, they just use press releases and allow themselves to be spun.

Right now we are living better than any society in the history of the world. And what do we hear on the news? It's the freaking end-times. Right....

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While I mostly agree with the first part of the statement about media, I'm not so sure that we live better now than any society in a history of the world. Lots of companies going out of business (Circuit City, for one), many others letting lots of people go (GE, GM, Ford, etc) - and thats just what I see where I live.
Yes, meadi does make things look 100000% worse, but things do happen.

 

[Krosya]

That money is going to be totally wasted and it won't benefit any ordinary citizen, photographer or not.

To the guy who said public school teachers are underpaid: The starting pay where I live is $35,000 a year to work 9 months. Even if it was for 12 months of work it is more than 90% of the people in my city earn, and it is enough to live decently because the cost of living is VERY low here. The average teacher here makes over $50,000 a year...the new ones starting at $35k will be making much more after they get tenure.

Sounds like it's a good idea to become a teacher?

 

[mumford]

Tax cuts have pulled our butt out of the fire before. JFK, Reagan and Bush all used tax cuts to spur periods of growth.

If I have to live within my income, how come the pinheads in Washington can't (or won't)?

Because somebody has to pay for those crony contracts, illegal wars, tax cuts and corporate welfare for the richest and powerful. May as well be you.

 

[mumford]

The idea that the government can somehow spend money more efficiently than the private sector is illogical... it's never been done before.

And letting the banking and "private sector" crooks run wild is more than illogical, it is criminal.

 

[mumford]

What caused this mess was congress (both republican and democrat congresses, btw) that decided it was a good idea to give mortgages to people who couldn't pay them back

Wrong. You neglected to mention that the mess was caused

[1] by the illogical, criminal trickle down policy of Reagan and his groupie.

[2] the no regulation ideology of those thieves that allows banks and criminals to sell MBS and CDO.

[3] by fascist media, like Fauxnews, which lied constantly and refused to question the criminal activities of the Bush administration.

 

[mumford]

Actually I think the economy stalled in order to screw over Putin and put the brakes on China, I know the USA and EU can absorb the losses far better than those countries can, so it is sort of an economic war taking place behind the scenes.

I guess it depends on what do you mean by "absorb." Major depression caused world war. I have no interest to be alive after San Francisco absorbed inbound nukes.