......Back to REALITY: GOP obstruct MORE jobs for LESS???......
Machinegunn
2012/06/23 01:37:31
......I sense more GOVERNMENT MONEY leading to PRIVATE POCKETS, forget about the AMERICAN PUBLIC!!!...From the article;
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With as many as 2.9 million new and existing jobs on the line, House Republicans are refusing to pass a transportation reauthorization bill, even after the Senate’s version of the bill overwhelmingly passed through the upper chamber in a 74-22 bipartisan vote.
The deadline for new transportation funding is June 30, and if the calendar flips to July without a compromise, as many as 1.9 million workers could lose their jobs, at least temporarily. The Senate version of the bill, if adapted, would create an additional one million new jobs as well, according to Department of Transportation projections.
So why are House Republicans holding nearly three million jobs hostage? Because they want approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to be included in the bill. This infographic gives a sense of the GOP’s priorities:
The State Department estimates that roughly 6,000 jobs would be created if the Keystone XL is approved, but as few as 20 of them will be permanent.
Read More: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/21/504120...
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- Scott 2012/06/23 01:54:48
+1The GOP congress, and John Boehner in particular, continues to spew the sound bite that they are concentrating on jobs, jobs, jobs, when in fact they've introduced nothing pertaining to jobs. All of their time is spent on abortion, birth control, voter suppression, pretending to investigate Fast and Furious, religion, obstructing everything,and basically anything BUT jobs, jobs, jobs.
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