No that was the speakers point. If you look at the link you'll see what commission he was on that made these recommendations.

The mayor recommendations did not call for full scale govt intervention. His recommendations more boilled down to calling for for people to stand up and make sacrifices and help better their neighborhoods. As a matter of fact he pointed out some neiborhoods in Newark that had shown dramatic statistical improvement. It was done with very little to no govt money. Just some people there standing up and getting stuff done.



>SNIP> If we can just use our govt to create more jobs for the underpriviledged....
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>Was that the speaker's viewpoint or is it yours? The government is already the largest employer in the U.S. Even at the county level, that often is the case. The worst thing that could happen to our economy is to prop it up with more non-productive jobs. Education would serve everyone much more for the future. Before we start handing out even more jobs, how about handing out an education instead.
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>Or did you mean use the government in the sense of creating an atmosphere here that promotes more new private enterprises which would hire? They would still require qualified workers.