The question, then, is how bad does it have to get before the Obama administration and Congress make job creation a priority.
Thank you New York Times editorial - I believe I made a case for a jobs program in July 2008:
The US government will have to do two things to fix the coming world-wide economic crisis - create a jobs program, as it did during the Great Depression, and put a cap on the interest rates charged by credit card companies.You can really see the Krugman influence in that post.