Reply To: CALL YOUR SENATOR TODAY!!

I would not swing that broad sword of “it doesn’t do any good to cut taxes if you don’t have a job”. This is worth the read:

http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=855532

Its noble of the government to jump start the economy by creating jobs but what about the ones that were lost or in jeopardy of going away now? No mention of those? There are numbers from 500,000 to 2 million lost and its only February. To say the government is trying to create jobs at this stage is like saying they could reconstruct my hand when it was cut off at the elbow.

They need to stop the bleeding first, and $600 million for hybrid vehicles for federal employees, $200 million for contraceptives and $21 million to re-sod the National Mall doesn’t make sense to me right now. Re-sodding the mall is great for a few months worth of work, but what happens after that money is spent and the sod is down? I don’t see long term sustainability there.

Building a road for the sake of building a road whether it is by an LA or a PE doesn’t make much sense to me either. I have no disdain for who gets the work, I want to see people employed, and I want fiscal responsibility. That’s my opinion, and I don’t think its a democratic or republican one.

I do feel your passion though, and I’m glad you are out there discussing the issue!