A.  Ideas from Community Jobs Forum  held in Tampa in December 2009.

The Platform and Issues Committee had selected several items from January’s Community Jobs Forum to develop as a resolution. The result of several months of discussion and deliberation is the following resolution that we once again urge the Hillsborough Democratic Party to adopt.

Whereas our local economy is still suffering from the effects of the recession that began before the election of 2008 and is responding only slowly to the stimulus package instituted by the Obama administration and the United States Congress, a package that many economists believe is  too meager to meet the needs of the situation,

Therefore, be it resolved that the Hillsborough Democratic Party encourages governments at all levels to support at least the following actions:

1. Extending unemployment benefits for those individuals without jobs until the unemployment rate falls below 8%.

2. Mandating an expeditious distribution of federal government grants to states and local governments to rebuild infrastructures and to build new buildings and structures.

3. Expanding programs of the Small Business Administration so that banks cannot stand in the way of financing and making loans to small businesses.

4. Authorizing the federal government to serve as employer of last resort much as President Roosevelt did in a similar depression era – nobody willing to work should be denied employment.

Recommended by Platform Committee in Jan 2010. 

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