Ironically, American voters just voted into control
of the U.S. Senate and House the exact party that created the gridlock that
cost those voters their income. Ironic.
The party that created the crash of 2008 and the
Great Recession afterward is now in charge again. When President Obama took office, on his
first day on the job they pledged to sabotage his every request. How patriotic,
to fight the new Captain after you just wrecked the ship. They did. And have
for six years.
Despite all that, Obama has created over 10 million
jobs since taking office. He dropped the unemployment rate to under 6%. He was
unwinding bad wars. The economy and stock market have been humming. And that
wasn’t good enough for the voters? He
inherited a wrecked economy and trillion dollar deficits, unpaid for wars and
unpaid for tax cuts—and without help from the GOP had bought a disaster back
into a brisk 3% growth rate.
It was the GOP that refused to pass a Jobs Bill or
Minimum Wage increase that would have made people feel better and do
better. Because of the GOP tax policy,
the economic growth has gone to the top 1% instead of the lower income people,
many of whom voted for the Republican candidates Tuesday.
Ironic. Now
what?
Now that they have “control,” where are their
SOLUTIONS? How will Governor Greg Abbott
make Texas roads better while cutting revenues? How will Texas education go
from No. 49 to No. 1 by shortchanging funding for education when the courts
have held it unconstitutional? How does a state that is adding 80,000 new students
a year help education by not increasing the funding required to teach those
students and funding for infrastructure such as roads to satisfy that growth?
How will a U.S. GOP Senate create jobs when it refused
to fully fund the traditionally bipartisan Transportation Bills that would have
created millions of more jobs?
That is the question ahead. Can they be trusted to
focus on addressing America’s failure to invest in our own country’s people and
infrastructure instead of power politics? We’ll see.
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