Where are the jobs?

When the Republicans took over the House of Representatives, they promised jobs. Where are those jobs? All they’re doing is ramming through a budget that is detrimental by cutting domestic spending. They don’t care that they are cutting funding for teachers, police, firefighters, TSA agents and other agencies that improve and protect our country. They apparently don’t care these cuts could result in 70,000 MORE job losses! All the Republican “War on Working Families” does is destroy jobs and job creation while doing nothing to cut spending on special interests. Republicans need to listen to the American People and reduce the deficit by putting America back to work.

The Republican budget contains over $100 billion dollars in government handouts to special interests and the wealthy. It cuts $11.2 billion from early childhood programs yet it provides $11.5 billion in recent tax cuts for millionaire’s estates; $8.9 billion for Low income housing programs but allows $8.9 billion in mortgage interest deductions for vacation homes. This is all while they’re also proposing to cut funding for Pell Grants, community health centers, high speed rail and family planning, just to name a few.

We are fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the tune of about $159.3 billion a year. We spent well over $100 million on Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya. That was just the first day - the cost for missiles alone. It’s a sad time for America when we have money for bombs but not for the American people, the very ones who pay the bills! Very sad indeed.