(Yet Another) Jobs Bill

The major news out of Washington today was the announcement of President Obama's new jobs proposal. From Slate:

Obama promoted a three-pronged approach to job creation, emphasizing small-business tax cuts, infrastructure investment, and clean-energy spending. The plan will likely be packaged as a single piece of legislation.

By my count this is at least the third "jobs" bill of the year, but you don't have to take my word for it.

Here's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on 2/13/09 describing HR 1 the stimulus bill:

After all the debate, this legislation can be summed up in one word: Jobs.

Here's Pelosi on 6/26/09, this time discussing Cap & Trade:

There are four words that can describe this bill: jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

In the space of four months Pelosi was able to quadruple the number of times she said "jobs" in discussing her latest legislative boondoggle. Unfortunately, this didn't create any, you know, actual jobs.

So the stimulus was a jobs bill, cap & trade was a jobs bill, and now we will add to this Obama's latest jobs bill. While bills about jobs have flourished in Washington, jobs in America have continued to wither.