As our economy continues to circle the drain, panic is beginning to set in.  The President has recently signed into law a bill to boost job growth.  But our confidence in our government is at an all time low.  What little credibility there may have been in our elected leaders has all but vanished in a sea of cynicism and a deep rooted sense of disillusionment and disappointment.  Fear has replaced optimism. 

This bill claims to be able to create 250,000 jobs but our economy has lost 8.4 MILLION jobs since the start of the recession. The approach congress has taken is to provide meager tax incentives for companies that create jobs that last 1 year or longer. How meager? The company would get a 6.2% reduction in payroll Social Security taxes through December of 2010 and a whopping $1,000 credit for employees that lasted a year. Huh? In other words, you can save $1,000 if you hire a person for, say, $50,000! Like I said, meager. We are now forced into a ‘back to basics’ frame-of-mind.