Year: 2011

So here are items #2 & #3 for creating more jobs in Delaware. (Get thee to your fainting couch teabaz.)

Ever since Jack Markell's State of the State Address, I've been trying to think of ways the government could leverage its resources to create jobs. The internet was not much help. For example I found teabagger now Senator Marco Rubio's "23 Simple Ways" to create jobs. 9 of the first 10 simple ideas involve shoving money into the pockets of wealth people and hoping they hire another housekeeper. That plays well for the misanthropic Florida geezers who he represents, but bitter experience tells us that tax cuts are not the magical job creating unicorn that conservatives still imagine them to be. SO what then?

Not because every school will be like St. E's with its new IPad lab. And not because all schools will be issuing lap tops to their students (although many will).…

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