It is not the wealthy who are job creators as the Republicans claim. It is the middle class who spend their incomes on goods and services that drives the economy creating more jobs and more middle class consumers with money to spend. President Obama’s programs designed to use federal funds to help states pay the salaries of public service employees such as teachers, firefighters, and police would have generated or saved more thousands more jobs and in turn generated more tax revenue for both the states and the federal government. In a similar vein, President Obama’s program to use federal dollars to rebuild the crumbling infrastructure and construct projects that would clean renewable energy would have put tens of thousands of people to work in good paying jobs and help the country come out of the recession. Unfortunately the party of NO, said NO and we have the economic stagnation we have, not as a result of President Obama’s policies, but because those very policies were blocked at every turn by the Republican Party.