John Boehner Is Deliberately Killing 3 Million Construction Jobs

[kpete]

John Boehner Is Deliberately Killing 3 Million Construction Jobs
By: Rmuse

“where are the jobs?” They are sitting on your desk Speaker Boehner

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In a rare bipartisan move, the Senate passed a highway and transportation bill that saves 1 million construction jobs and creates 2 million more, but led by Speaker John Boehner, the teabagger extremists in the House are failing to hold a vote on the transportation bill to keep unemployment numbers high and damage President Obama’s re-election chances. What Republicans in the House did propose was an economically shortsighted bill that kills a half-a-million jobs next year alone. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said, “It defies imagination that the Republican leadership and chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would turn their backs on the needs of our country and pretend it is good government.” Even the ultra-conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce blasted the Republican version of the transportation bill as being “devastating to construction and related industries—materials, equipment, design, engineering. As important, in the long run, disinvestment results in a less competitive economy and a drag on GDP due to underperforming infrastructure.” In an even rarer letter to Rep. John Mica (R-FL), author of the Republican measure, two Democratic and two Republican representatives wrote, “Reducing investment in America’s transportation system at this time will have a negative impact on the construction, engineering, manufacturing and materials companies which are already struggling with high unemployment. Transportation infrastructure is one of the most cost efficient and effective ways to reduce unemployment and stimulate the economy. Studies suggest that for every $1 billion spent on transportation projects more than 35,000 jobs are created.” The Senate’s transportation bill, worth $109 billion creates 3,815,000 construction jobs and yet, Republicans like Speaker John Boehner are asking; “where are the jobs?” They are sitting on your desk Speaker Boehner and you cannot see fit to hold a vote on helping the construction industry, the hardest hit by Bush-Republicans economic catastrophe, by creating over three-million construction jobs.

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[liberal N proud]

1. Someone will still have the balls to blame Obama.

[barbtries]

7. right after they blame him for

"politicizing" the issue.

[Tigress DEM]

16. Yep

So sorry for your loss.

Tig

[barbtries]

17. thank you Tig.

[freshwest]

19. Naturally. It makes them feel smug and superior. Why stop now?

[tk2kewl]

2. k&r

[clang1]

3. re: John Boehner Is Deliberately Killing 3 Million Construction Jobs

when will people wake up.

[rustydog]

4. Maybe when he found out Romney made 20,000.00 on each worker he fired,

The Boner wants some of that action times 3 million.

[onehandle]

5. The commercial on this just writes itself. But the gutless Dems will only...

...waggle their fingers politely.

[AlbertCat]

9. But the gutless Dems will only...waggle their fingers politely.

Really?

Is that true?


I'm really asking. Got any video or copy on this mild finger wagging?

Or, as usual,is it the Dem outrage and speeches on the subject just aren't being reported on? Are Dems opposed to this being lined up for interviews and talk shows? Or are those TV hosts going for the usual 3 Repugs and one Dem way down the totem pole as a panel to discuss it?

[Quantess]

13. It sure seems like the case.

The republicans somehow managed to throw their weight around, even when they were the minority. Why is that?

[valerief]

6. The govt kills people every day with war and lack of healthcare. nt

[Kaleva]

8. Much of our highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair.

I've also seen studies which stated that for every billion spent on transportation construction, about 35k jobs are created.

[AlbertCat]

10. Everybody knows what to do to fix the economy

It's as plain as day.

It's just not getting done.

[Kaleva]

11. Concentrating an economic stimulas package on our infrastructure would have worked.

This nation needs good roads, safe bridges, an improved rail system, an efficient and updated power grid and so on.

The money would have been well spent on needed projects and would have created hundreds of thousands of well paying jobs.

Eliminating the tax break on the wealthy would have paid for much of it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Boehner is committing treason. Yes, TREASON.

I am speechless.

[Auntie Bush]

14. ALL of them are committing treason! Every time one delibertly votes for something that is

harmful to our country due to pure politics is committing treason. They all love money more than their country! I hate every one of them...even though my mother taught me never to say you HATE someone. Sorry Mom!

[freshwest]

20. +1,000

[Scurrilous]

15. K & R

[Canuckistanian]

18. Even the CofC is complaining? Wow

At least the CofC has larger goals - this House has ONE purpose only.. to make Obama look bad for partisan reasons, logic and the welfare of American workers be damned.

[patrice]

21. K&R

[ailsagirl]

22. Those neocons have gone completely over the top n/t