I rather like Obama's new jobs program, just as I liked it when Clinton proposed and supported similar measures. In general, I think Democrats do too little to promote the government's role in rebuilding infrastructure and generating job creating investments, and that they should make those programs a larger priority during economic downturns. Democrats tend to talk of government action as moral and safe, aimed either at redressing injustice or protecting individuals from the vagaries of the economy. Both those things are often true. But sometimes government programs are just a plain good deal, as in the case of the National Institute of Health, Universal Pre-Kindegarten, the VA Health System, infrastructure rebuilding (both on its own and as a countercyclical jobs program), and many more.
