President Obama is working to pass legislation to restore and prevent the additional loss of jobs in the USA. The Republicans in the House of Representatives (every single one) voted against the bill that has the objective of creating or restoring about 3.5 million jobs. They attempted to pass a bill that was based upon only tax reductions stating that the average tax cut would amount to about $3,300 per family. The Republican Party has consistently promoted lower taxes as the cure for all economic ills. Don't they remember the tax cut that our previous president engineered that set the stage for our current economic crisis. Today we face escalating job losses and the Republicans claim that the cure is to cut taxes again, believing that more money in the pockets of the consumers will create more jobs by increasing demand for consumer goods and services. Now let me ask just one basic question. If you have lost your job will you pay taxes? Other than possible sales taxes you will stop paying state and federal taxes since you are earning zero income. Without a job you will try to sustain yourself and family on whatever you have saved plus unemployment insurance (if you are elligible). If you earn zero income a tax cut means you will receive zero dollars. The Republican tax cut mantra is a ruse that amounts to hot air in a porous balloon.
Our country now has over 14 million people that are unemployed or severely underemployed and that number is growing by the hundreds of thousands monthly. Even President Obama's and the Democratic plan will be insufficient to stimulate enough job growth, but it beats the Republican plan to cut taxes for the people who earn nothing, and who have no prospects of getting any job, let alone adequate paying job.The real motivation of the do-nothing Republican Party is purely political. Make the situation that President Obama inherited from eight years of Bush even worse so that they can claim "told ya" the next election cycle, and hope for a Republican resurgence. The fact that not a single Republican in the House of Representatives voted for job creation speaks for itself.
Today one of our country's bedrock corporations announced that it will lay off about 20,000 of its nearly 65,000 employees. Our nations first manufacture of agricultural tractors,now known as the Caterpillar Corporation, that began production in 1883 will dismiss thousands of workers in the USA. When bedrock corporations announce these gloomy job losses, as have many other stalwart corporations, we know that we are in deep trouble as a nation. Yet the Republican Party opposes the only way to create meaningful employment for our suffering citizens. Our government must act just as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did during the last depression and fund restoration of our crumbling roads, bridges, and highways. We must fund alternative energy programs and begin large scale wind farms for power generation. We must provide affordable broadband access for all citizens. We must rebuild sewerage treatment and municipal water systems for the health and safety of all citizens. We must fund education to allow each and every young person to fulfill their God-given abilities. We must provide affordable health care for all and accessible clinics and hospitals throughout our country. We must all become part of a national effort to foster employment, education, and health care, and opportunity for all.
When will the Republican Party realize that we are one nation and that the essential purpose of government must be to provide a firm base for each of our citizens to live with dignity and adequate sustenance. We are at the edge of a precipice and a step in the wrong direction could easily cause a spiral of deepening despair. Now is the time to work together for the good of all. Let us join hands, Democrats and Republicans, for the sake of our nation.
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