OPPOSITION TO AMERICAN JOBS ACT.

Many Republican Party leaders have said that, government did not create jobs, and that the private sector was more than 80% responsible for hiring workers to reduce unemployment.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has said that repeatedly, and so has Speaker John Boehner and others on the Republican side in the United States Congress. They have made those remarks in opposition to President Barack Obama's American Jobs Act.

While it is true that the private sector provides work for millions of people, there are other responsibilities that are assigned to the government. It must have some public positions filled, in terms of the environment and also for bureaucratic matters. These positions account for the bulk of civil and public workers, under normal circumstances, but they do to get the unemployed working, if there are some openings to fill.

In fact, they tend to help any type of crushing unemployment numbers, like those the country is experiencing now, to go down. The present national rate is at 9.1%; and for African Americans, for example, it is at 16% unemployed.

The kinds of work, such as renovating airports, Transportation system being modernized, and speed/fast trains carrying people back and forth across the country to energize trade and commerce, as well as new school buildings to replace old and dilapidated ones, are done by the Federal government; and then some.

All of these projects are contained in the Obama American Jobs Act proposal, and they will be implemented if the U.S. Congress passes a bill. That is the only way for them (projects) to come to life, just as the president is requesting members of Congress to undertake or to do.

They (projects) are part of the nation's infrastructure; of bridges and highways that need to be repaired, and in some cases replaced. A whole number of artisans will be required for such endeavors, and other peripheral personnel of trained and untrained workingmen and women will be hired to handle them; and that will cause several thousands, if not millions, of people to have jobs.

The U.S. economy is struggling feverishly, as the private sector is not hiring, and other industries are downsizing or even outsourcing their businesses to other cheap labor countries, instead of expanding and growing them here in America.

Money is hard to come by, and so, banks are refusing to lend for business improvement and development; and many financial sources are even dry. Just watch the stock market movements, and it does not take very long to see what is happening.

There are all kinds of problems that are dragging the economy back; the downgrading of America's credit rating being one of them; and so is the Arab spring, getting the price of crude oil to skyrocket.

Therefore, why the arrogant, uncompromising and incongruous trend of resistance by the Republicans to pass a bill for the items in the American Jobs Act to take effect. Those are obviously the projects that will provide millions of jobs to alleviate the chronic disease called "unemployment", which is so high in the country today.

Politico.com Opinion column has come out with a scathing article to address some poignant issues; and pinpointing the fact that the blame must be laid on the people's representatives in Washington D.C., and at the door of Congress. (No quotations here; please, go read it for yourself).

That is where the stranglehold on the economy is coming from; and if they will only let go, it (economy) will have a chance to revitalize.

The job of a constructive opposition to any government is to give aid to it, and not to impede its progress. Yet, that is what the practice seems to be on Capitol Hill; a culture of destructive tendencies, to be on the opposing side, and to revile all governmental policies, just to gain political points.

However, a stiff opposition is not an antidote to the nation's financial woes. That is coupled with an acute bureaucracy and red tape, existing for project approvals; as it will take years, instead of months or even days, for these projects to go through the processing phase, before they will see the light of day.

However, all that can be eliminated, if politicians will put the bickering, that has become so common and fashionable these days, aside and decide to do something practical for the people. They see their (people's) suffering, but the question is , do they (politicians) really care?

The candidates running for the presidency of the U.S., all profess to know how to create jobs. Will it not be advisable for them to encourage their colleagues in Congress to pass the needed bill to put people back to work and to regenerate the devastated economy; or will they want to wait to see the nation in fiscal tatters, before they take action, when they become the president?

Won't that be too late, as they are not sure whether they are going to win or not?