[quote=SD Realtor]Kind of helps when you have jobs so that people need to go to those transportation hubs to come visit.

As much as everyone hates to hear it, unless you enhance opportunities for corporations to operate in the USA the more jobs will leave our country.

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What about taking a small fraction ($1 billion) of the amount that has gone out in bail out money and give it back to the U.S. patent office? Congress has had a long habit of diverting funds from PTO coffers, resulting in a huge backlog of cases. Judge Paul Michel (a judge who sits on the the bench for the U.S. Court of Appeals that hears patent cases) wrote a very convincing article in the NYT entitled Inventing our Way Out of Joblessness that reached the following conclusion:

“So our guess is that restoring the patent office to full functionality would create, over the next three years, at least 675,000 and as many as 2.25 million jobs. Assuming a mid-range figure of 1.5 million, the price would be roughly $660 per job — and that would be 525 times more cost effective than the 2.5 million jobs created by the government’s $787 billion stimulus plan.”

Perhaps we wouldn’t have to decide about whether to let the market fall if we could something about creating more jobs. . .