Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts
Friday, July 13, 2012
Biggest Waste of Time, Effort and US Tax Dollars...
It is time that the Republican-led congress tries to do something that is constructive!! Wasting time and money to vote on repealing the healthcare law, when it should be obvious that they would be unsuccessful is ridiculous! The House might vote to repeal it, but the Senate will not take it up, and President Obama would veto... It is a known fact that the Republicans do not like the law... they don't have to waste our money and their time to prove it!! Do something to help your constituents.... many of whom are probably already benefiting from parts of the healthcare law... and when it is fully implemented, will benefit more!
Monday, June 18, 2012
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Robin Hood, Where are You??
I heard on the news this morning that Congress has chosen not to extend the unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who desperately need them... citing "fiscal responsibility" they cannot see their way clear to help those who lost their jobs as a result of our tanking economy. Ok, I get it... they want people to work for their money, not just have it handed to them.... so then Congress, WHERE ARE THE JOBS???
If you don't want to be fiscally irresponsible and add 56 billion dollars to the deficit, in order to help your less fortunate brothers and sisters here in America, who by the way, did nothing to deserve the economic difficulties that they are experiencing, and try as they might cannot find a job, then at least you could work on creating incentives so that the economy will pick up and they will be able to get back to work and earn their pay...
Of course, there are always those Bush era tax cuts... those can be extended to everyone, as Republicans would like... now that would be real "fiscal responsibility" wouldn't it? Especially extending the tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% of our nation... I have heard from news sources that economists say that doing this would add somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 billion dollars to the deficit...
Yeah, that's the ticket to fiscal responsibility and economic growth... give those wealthy people tax cuts that they don't really need so they can save the money, not spend it on expanding business and creating job growth.... as opposed to giving the ordinary folks money they need to survive, who will then spend it on necessities and put it back into our economy.
After hearing how "fiscally responsible" Congress wants to be now, I just have so much more confidence in my elected officials... those people who are supposed to put the good of the American People ahead of their own agendas...
But I must admit that I don't have a lot of confidence in their basic knowledge of Arithmetic... I mean, the last time I checked, 700 billion dollars was a lot greater than 56 billion dollars [700 billion>56 billion]... so where is the fiscal responsibility in denying the needy and pandering to the rich?
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich.... Robin Hood, where are you when we need you????
If you don't want to be fiscally irresponsible and add 56 billion dollars to the deficit, in order to help your less fortunate brothers and sisters here in America, who by the way, did nothing to deserve the economic difficulties that they are experiencing, and try as they might cannot find a job, then at least you could work on creating incentives so that the economy will pick up and they will be able to get back to work and earn their pay...
Of course, there are always those Bush era tax cuts... those can be extended to everyone, as Republicans would like... now that would be real "fiscal responsibility" wouldn't it? Especially extending the tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% of our nation... I have heard from news sources that economists say that doing this would add somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 billion dollars to the deficit...
Yeah, that's the ticket to fiscal responsibility and economic growth... give those wealthy people tax cuts that they don't really need so they can save the money, not spend it on expanding business and creating job growth.... as opposed to giving the ordinary folks money they need to survive, who will then spend it on necessities and put it back into our economy.
After hearing how "fiscally responsible" Congress wants to be now, I just have so much more confidence in my elected officials... those people who are supposed to put the good of the American People ahead of their own agendas...
But I must admit that I don't have a lot of confidence in their basic knowledge of Arithmetic... I mean, the last time I checked, 700 billion dollars was a lot greater than 56 billion dollars [700 billion>56 billion]... so where is the fiscal responsibility in denying the needy and pandering to the rich?
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich.... Robin Hood, where are you when we need you????
Saturday, November 6, 2010
damn the torpedoes...
It has been interesting listening to comments made by our politicians and our soon to be politicians since the "shellackin" that the Democratic Party received in the elections less than a week ago. The "whys", the "wherefores", the "what-nots", and the "what's next" have all been spoken on... by those of all political parties and persuasions... and the Republicans and Tea Party-ers would have us believe that they are now going to come in and "save the day"!!
As I listened to election returns, one thing seemed to stand out... Democrats and Republicans and Tea Party-ers who spoke that night focused on the fact that people in our country were angry that not enough had been done to create more jobs for those who have been and continue to struggle with unemployment. And perhaps I heard it wrong, but it sounded to me as if those who had been re-elected and newly elected were making promises to take up the challenges of unemployment and job creation that are plaguing our economy as a top priority...
It sounded as though they were saying they would be coming to Washington to work to reduce unemployment and grow our economy... granted, that was not the only thing they were saying, but at least on election night it seemed as though that was going to be their top priority, because they said, "that was what the American People wanted"... "that was why the American People had so soundly defeated the Democrats"... "that was why the American People had handed the Democrats the largest defeat in history since the 1930's"... And from both Republicans and Democrats I heard that they [our elected and newly elected officials] were now going to work to fulfill the "people's mandate" [although the word "mandate" may not have actually been used, it was certainly implied]...
I wonder how they are going to do that?
I know, I know!!!! I heard it from the mouth of Mitch McConnell himself!!! He is going to focus on making sure that President Obama does not get elected in 2012, so that a Republican nominee can be elected as president, so that they can then repeal "Obama-care"...
Now that's a plan if I ever heard one... that will certainly fulfill the American People's "mandate" to create more jobs and bring the unemployment numbers down...
Yessiree!! Let's have two more years of Republicans and Tea Party-ers saying, "No, we won't!" to anything that is suggested or proposed, so that in the 2012 elections, the Democrats can be blamed, President Obama can be defeated, and Republicans can "take over"... and "Obama-care" can be repealed!!!
But wait... what about those unemployment numbers and those people in our country who are losing their homes and struggling to make ends meet? What about the American People's "mandate" that you promised to make top priority? Or at least that you appeared to promise to make top priority...
I guess in the short time span of just a few days, everything is suddenly ok with the job/unemployment situation, and attention can now be focused on the more important things... that of making sure that Democrats and President Obama are defeated in the 2012 elections... damn the needs of the American People... damn the anger in this country over job loss, mortgage foreclosures, unemployment and Wall Street excesses that brought us to this point...
What's that saying? "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"?
Be warned.... we Americans now live in an "instant society" of "fast foods" and instant access to anything we want over the internet... and we apparently also expect "instant answers" to problems for which there are none... the "torpedoes" that sunk the Democrats in the 2010 elections may also sink Republicans and Tea Party-ers in the 2012 elections...
It is time that political posturing, political power-plays, and election rhetoric be put aside for the more important job of working together to find ways of reducing unemployment and encouraging the creation of more jobs... Whether Democrat or Republican or Tea Party or Independent, this is the reason you were elected... this is what the American People are screaming for... this is your "mandate"!!
We, the American People, are looking to you, our elected officials, for leadership, not partisanship!! And I think, that although we would like our problems to be solved instantaneously, that deep down, we know that will not happen... but it would be nice to see some progress being made... without having to wait another two years before any of you legislators even begins to get to work...
As I listened to election returns, one thing seemed to stand out... Democrats and Republicans and Tea Party-ers who spoke that night focused on the fact that people in our country were angry that not enough had been done to create more jobs for those who have been and continue to struggle with unemployment. And perhaps I heard it wrong, but it sounded to me as if those who had been re-elected and newly elected were making promises to take up the challenges of unemployment and job creation that are plaguing our economy as a top priority...
It sounded as though they were saying they would be coming to Washington to work to reduce unemployment and grow our economy... granted, that was not the only thing they were saying, but at least on election night it seemed as though that was going to be their top priority, because they said, "that was what the American People wanted"... "that was why the American People had so soundly defeated the Democrats"... "that was why the American People had handed the Democrats the largest defeat in history since the 1930's"... And from both Republicans and Democrats I heard that they [our elected and newly elected officials] were now going to work to fulfill the "people's mandate" [although the word "mandate" may not have actually been used, it was certainly implied]...
I wonder how they are going to do that?
I know, I know!!!! I heard it from the mouth of Mitch McConnell himself!!! He is going to focus on making sure that President Obama does not get elected in 2012, so that a Republican nominee can be elected as president, so that they can then repeal "Obama-care"...
Now that's a plan if I ever heard one... that will certainly fulfill the American People's "mandate" to create more jobs and bring the unemployment numbers down...
Yessiree!! Let's have two more years of Republicans and Tea Party-ers saying, "No, we won't!" to anything that is suggested or proposed, so that in the 2012 elections, the Democrats can be blamed, President Obama can be defeated, and Republicans can "take over"... and "Obama-care" can be repealed!!!
But wait... what about those unemployment numbers and those people in our country who are losing their homes and struggling to make ends meet? What about the American People's "mandate" that you promised to make top priority? Or at least that you appeared to promise to make top priority...
I guess in the short time span of just a few days, everything is suddenly ok with the job/unemployment situation, and attention can now be focused on the more important things... that of making sure that Democrats and President Obama are defeated in the 2012 elections... damn the needs of the American People... damn the anger in this country over job loss, mortgage foreclosures, unemployment and Wall Street excesses that brought us to this point...
What's that saying? "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"?
Be warned.... we Americans now live in an "instant society" of "fast foods" and instant access to anything we want over the internet... and we apparently also expect "instant answers" to problems for which there are none... the "torpedoes" that sunk the Democrats in the 2010 elections may also sink Republicans and Tea Party-ers in the 2012 elections...
It is time that political posturing, political power-plays, and election rhetoric be put aside for the more important job of working together to find ways of reducing unemployment and encouraging the creation of more jobs... Whether Democrat or Republican or Tea Party or Independent, this is the reason you were elected... this is what the American People are screaming for... this is your "mandate"!!
We, the American People, are looking to you, our elected officials, for leadership, not partisanship!! And I think, that although we would like our problems to be solved instantaneously, that deep down, we know that will not happen... but it would be nice to see some progress being made... without having to wait another two years before any of you legislators even begins to get to work...
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