Ann Marie Buerkle, HR NY-25, likes to make broad critical statements about the US Senate.
Her own dear House is forever blameless. For instance, they in the House are working their tails off to come up with bills that will get us jobs, jobs, jobs! According to Buerkle at her town hall meeting in Clay last Thursday, the House has come up with "something like 12 jobs bills."
And you know what? That darned Senate tabled them all!
Funny thing: all the Republican-controlled House "jobs" bills favor big business, wealthy people, and off-shore manufacturing.
These bills would also gut everything from health insurance to public investments in education, public health, environmental safeguards, infrastructure, energy, and science and technology research and development, all of which Republicans see as bad investments.
Good bye to the minimum wage and hello to union-busting. Middle America, get used to things getting a lot worse.
The prizes and the winners, of course: greater profits for the folks at the very top and perpetual power to the conservative forces in Washington who hope to catch some golden crumbs when they retire (because we know they are not allowed to snack on those delicious golden crumbs while they are still in office.)
There are two great articles right now that examine the Republican agenda on jobs:
The GOP's Mythical Jobs Agenda on Think Progress on August 26, 2011, by Adam Hersh an economist at the Center for American Progress Action Fund
5 Worst So-Called Job Creation Ideas From the GOP on Alternet on August 30, 2011, by Sarah Jaffe of Alternet
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