Last night, we all watched with baited breath as President Barack Obama introduced his new iteration of what he hopes will be a job fix solution.

“The American Jobs Act,” which he introduced last night in front of a joint Congressional session and a national TV audience, is a broad based $450 billion collection of tax breaks, job stimulus and aid aimed to help alleviate the country’s mounting unemployment.

The million dollar question which has already been asked, is as follows:

How will this so called “Jobs bill” affect the field service industry?

The true answer is, who the heck knows!!! This is politics, so there are sure to be a gazzilion revisions and iterations of this thing before it’s all over and done with! To extrapolate from the Presidents’ opening salvo, is to prematurely engage in semantics. The final bill is going to wind up looking like a phone book – and like all other ‘bills’, will no doubt be thoroughly convoluted so that nobody really cares enough to understand what’s in it, much less how it might affect (and effect) a certain sector. However, I’d like to write a blog entry…so I’ll give it a shot!..;-)

Let’s forget about how it may/may not affect possible tax breaks on  small businesses. The fact is, the President has already changed his definition of  (and criteria for) what constitutes a small business more times than I have fingers and toes, so let’s leave it alone.

However, one thing is indeed certain, if the President has his way with these so called “shovel ready jobs”, there will be billions (yes, billions with a ‘B’) of dollars in investments into infrastructure, nationwide.

"Shovel Ready" jobs, means different things to different people......