Jobs for America bill is a job-killer

Jobs for America bill is a job-killer; a Pig in a Poke


Rep. George Miller (D-CA Dist 7) and 103 co-sponsors (all Democrats - including Texas Reps. Al Green, Eddie Bernice Johnson, and Sheila Jackson Lee) are working to grow government jobs.

Let’s be perfectly clear about this – government jobs equate to higher taxes for the rest of us.

The bill deceptively titled Jobs for America Act (H.R. 4812) is no different from the stimulus bill in providing federal funds for state and local employment schemes, and we know how well that worked.

This bill provides short-term federal funds for state and local government jobs. It supports the very opposite of fiscal responsibility by propping up old and new positions that clearly do not have the tax base to support them.

Here is the description of the bill: To provide funds to States, units of general local government, and community-based organizations to save and create local jobs through the retention, restoration, or expansion of services needed by local communities, and for other purposes.

It’s another Democratic measure to further destroy the free market, kill private sector jobs, and grow government. Let’s remember that government employees and their unions are major supporters of their benefactors – the Democratic Party officials and their candidates.

So don’t be fooled by the so-called “Jobs for America Act” as it is yet another pig in a poke.