by Mike Hall, Apr 23, 2011
House Republicans talk the jobs talk, but they sure aren’t walking the jobs walk. Here we are, 109 days into the 112th Congress, and House Republicans haven’t produced one piece of jobs legislation. This clock will keep on ticking until we see a real jobs bill. (Click here to get the code so you an embed the clock on your web page or FaceBook page.)
The economy is not going to heal itself. Instead of a jobs bill that could help the more than 24 million Americans who are unemployed or underemployed, Republicans have given us their proposed budget—straight out of Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) horror movie economics laboratory. It could cost between 1.7 million and 2.2 million jobs in the first two years alone.
It’s as if they have shrugged their shoulders, looked at the 24 million in need of work, and said:
So be it. Let’s cut corporate taxes, give the rich a break on taxes, while privatizing Medicare, decimating Medicaid, repealing health care reform—and when we get the chance, privatize Social Security.
It’s time for Republicans to reject their “So Be It” spending plan, which puts ideology before jobs, and make a bipartisan effort to create a plan that reduces the deficit, creates jobs, and strengthens the middle class.
Tick tock. Tick tock.
