To the editor,
If the presidents latest attempt at a "jobs" bill comes to the Senate floor our Senators should vote no.
The millionaires tax to pay for it is a red herring. The vice president's statements today about putting teachers and first responders back to work is disingenuous at best. It is just another payoff to the public employees unions at the expense of people who have nothing to do with these laid off workers.
When did it become the national governments responsibility to pay local public employees? These local governments have had three years to deal with their problems. If they do not have the political will to either raise taxes or cut wages and benefits then they can't have these workers. And the workers have to deal with a new reality that the country and the taxpayers are all broke.
Wrapping this jobs bill with code words like "First Responders" makes you think we are not being protected from terrorists by the federal government, when this is just not true.
Rather than dealing with this three years ago, the state governments took hundreds of billions in stimulus money to pay them . . . remember those saved jobs. Now the stimulus money is gone, the workers have lost their jobs anyway and we still have to pay it all back.
If we do not come to grips with and except the economy we have and begin to live within our means rather than continuously kicking the can down the road hoping for some miracle, we will end like Greece.
James Edgar
Meredith
