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They Say We Just Can't Afford It But Can We Afford To Let Children Go To Bed Hungry?
The Blue Dogs, want us to believe that, unlike those other profligate politicians, they really, really care about bringing the federal budget deficit under control, even in the midst of the worst economy in 75 years.
Bull crap, they say $30 billion in funding for health-care coverage for the poor and the unemployed from emergency legislation extending jobless benefits. We just can afford it.
But on the other hand we can afford $22 billion over the next three years to guarantee that American doctors, who are far and away the best-paid in the world, don't suffer any significant declines in their incomes just because of a little thing like a recession or a government budget crisis.
As the country discusses what to do about the borrowing the elephant in the room, the important thing is that everyone understands that restoring top tax rates to pre-Reagan levels and cutting the military budget in half would solve the problem completely. But we can't do that, we can't even discuss it
I just wish the Blue Dogs used better judgement.
Solving America’s jobs problem should be the Congress's number one job. But conservatives in Congress are actively harming our economy. The latest case in point: When a vote to tax millionaires to fund spending on infrastructure that would create jobs and boost productivity came up in the Senate Thursday, Republicans filibustered it.
Not only are conservatives in Congress blocking efforts to spur private-sector job creation by not making needed investments in infrastructure but they are also refusing to help state and local governments deal with their still-acute fiscal problems, which is continuing to add to unemployment.
At this point in an economic recovery, especially one following such a deep recession we should be seeing upward of some 300,000 jobs created per month, but the economy only added 80,000 jobs in October, although August and September’s data were revised upward by a total of 102,000 jobs. Still, the three-month pace of job creation is only 114,000. That’s woefully inadequate.
So what's the hold up? Easy enough to explain. Conservative in Congress want President Obama to be a one term President. Out here in the real world people, including little children are going to bed at night, hungry.
You can't tell me some of those who support the Conservative agend in the past, are not hurting too. Occupy Wall started out as a group of students who saw they would have no jobs as they graduated, they got involved, their numbers have grown, and will continue to do so. One would have thought that some in Congress saw this too, but I guess lineing theri own pockes takes precident over everything.
Bull crap, they say $30 billion in funding for health-care coverage for the poor and the unemployed from emergency legislation extending jobless benefits. We just can afford it.
But on the other hand we can afford $22 billion over the next three years to guarantee that American doctors, who are far and away the best-paid in the world, don't suffer any significant declines in their incomes just because of a little thing like a recession or a government budget crisis.
As the country discusses what to do about the borrowing the elephant in the room, the important thing is that everyone understands that restoring top tax rates to pre-Reagan levels and cutting the military budget in half would solve the problem completely. But we can't do that, we can't even discuss it
I just wish the Blue Dogs used better judgement.
Solving America’s jobs problem should be the Congress's number one job. But conservatives in Congress are actively harming our economy. The latest case in point: When a vote to tax millionaires to fund spending on infrastructure that would create jobs and boost productivity came up in the Senate Thursday, Republicans filibustered it.
Not only are conservatives in Congress blocking efforts to spur private-sector job creation by not making needed investments in infrastructure but they are also refusing to help state and local governments deal with their still-acute fiscal problems, which is continuing to add to unemployment.
At this point in an economic recovery, especially one following such a deep recession we should be seeing upward of some 300,000 jobs created per month, but the economy only added 80,000 jobs in October, although August and September’s data were revised upward by a total of 102,000 jobs. Still, the three-month pace of job creation is only 114,000. That’s woefully inadequate.
So what's the hold up? Easy enough to explain. Conservative in Congress want President Obama to be a one term President. Out here in the real world people, including little children are going to bed at night, hungry.
You can't tell me some of those who support the Conservative agend in the past, are not hurting too. Occupy Wall started out as a group of students who saw they would have no jobs as they graduated, they got involved, their numbers have grown, and will continue to do so. One would have thought that some in Congress saw this too, but I guess lineing theri own pockes takes precident over everything.
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Comment by Mike Lawson on November 7, 2011 at 7:45pm -
Amen, Donna. Amen.
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