From: The unemployed
To: Congress
Subject: We need jobs. We need you to do yours.
Okay, listen up. The president says he expects you to take action on jobs this month. He wants you to pass his entire plan, but if you won’t do that, at least do something.
Yeah, we’re holding our breath on that.
With all the politics and the posturing, the ideology and the idiocy, how can you solve a problem when you’ve BEEN the problem?
But it would be nice if you actually could do something for a change.
Look, we’re realistic. We know you guys don’t like each other very much, and a lot of you really don’t like the president. But why did you run for Congress in the first place? Wasn’t helping people part of that? Didn’t you kind of think maybe you could do something to help make America just a little better?
You’ve made it pretty clear you’re not going to pass President Obama’s jobs bill. To be honest, we weren’t that thrilled with his plan either. We didn’t think it was big enough. We were hoping for something really big. New Deal big. But at least it was something. Economists say it would create jobs. They say it would help a lot of people. They say it’s a good start. And that’s not bad.
We know, many of you have made it clear you don’t want to pass the president’s plan because politically, it’s better for you to keep the economy down. You’d rather make the president lose his job than help us get one.
So if you don’t like his plan, how about coming up with one of your own? How about someone stepping forward and being the hero we need so desperately? How about putting people ahead of politics, just this once? There’s a difference between what’s right for your political goals and what’s right for the country. Please understand that.
We understand the politics part of this. But have you looked at your own approval ratings lately? Aaron Burr was more popular AFTER he killed Alexander Hamilton.
And aren’t all of you also up for re-election next year? If you don’t do anything about jobs, you’re hurting a lot more people than the president. You’re hurting us. And by the way, in case you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of us. Between the unemployed and the under-employed, there are about 25 million of us. That’s a lot of people. That’s a lot of voters. And if we’re out of work, we’ll have plenty of time to vote….even if we have to stand in line. We’ll also be pretty motivated to vote. So politically speaking, isn’t it better for you to help us than hurt the economy?
Speaking of the economy, we’re no experts, but even we understand that the jobs crisis is a lot bigger than the debt crisis you guys keep talking about. And fixing one can actually help the other. Please tell us you get the fact that every time someone stops collecting unemployment benefits and starts collecting a paycheck, that’s a good thing. When we’re working, we spend money. We buy houses. We buy cars. We support stores and restaurants. We support small businesses and big ones. And oh yes, we pay taxes.
Oh, did we say taxes? We know, that’s a bad word for many of you, unless it’s a tax cut. You keep talking about what a bad idea it is to tax the job creators. Time for a reality check. The job creators aren’t creating jobs. They’re killing them. Or they’re moving them overseas.
Hey, how about a tax break for companies that move jobs back to America? Personally, we liked the president’s idea about giving companies a tax credit for hiring someone who’s been out of work for a while. But there are other incentives. You want to help the job creators….make it impossible for them to NOT create jobs.
So the ball’s in your court. You can take action, or you can act like children. We don’t have much faith in you. Please prove us wrong.
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