James Halbakken
The Free Press
Winona — After listening to the State of the Union speech, I thought, “I’ve heard this jobs thing before.”
Sure enough, on March 31, 2009, in his spring letter to us here in Minnesota District 1, Rep. Tim “Timid” Walz wrote, “We have already taken bold action to save or create 3.5 million jobs, keep families in their homes, and stabilize our financial markets, through the signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Resolving these issues and turning around the national economy is my number one priority and the number one priority of Congress.”
Then Walz, Congress and the White House put it on the back burner and forgot about it. After all, they had “saved” the economy with it.
They were pre-occupied with health care reform also, which became the number one priority. So it sounded like they were concerned about jobs for Main Street America, but the “stimulus bill” was laden with pork and was no help for small business. Instead of saving and creating 3.5 million jobs and keeping the unemployment number below 8 percent, it’s now at 10 percent and would be much higher except many have come off that list because they’ve quit looking for work. They did save Wall Street however.
Do we really want to throw good money after bad with another jobs stimulus?
These are elected representatives, they know what’s right and wrong, yet they still consider themselves qualified to decide our legislation. And Walz is right in there with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the rest.
The best way to control the spiraling deficit spending is to vote each of them, from both sides of the aisle, out of office and start fresh.
