take priority over private-sector jobs
The Hill - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday indicated Congress needs to worry about government jobs more than private-sector jobs, and that this is why Senate Democrats are pushing a bill aimed at shoring up teachers and first-responders.
"It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about," Reid said on the Senate floor.
Reid was responding to recent comments from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who accused Democrats of purposefully pursuing higher taxes as part of the teacher/first-responder bill, S. 1723, so that Republicans would oppose it.
McConnell said the bill was meant to fail in order to give Democrats an issue to run on in the 2012 election, but Reid said the Republicans are simply trying to defeat President Obama any way they can. The legislation Reid is defending is part of Obama's jobs package.
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Blog author's comments - If the private sector is “doing just fine” then why are so many Americans unemployed, many of them long-term?
Does Harry Reid not understand that it is private sector jobs that allow government jobs at both the Federal and State levels to exist? It is obvious that this bill was meant to fail just as the 'American Jobs Act' was. To give Obama and the Democratic Party an issue to run on for 2012.
Our only salvation for the country is that after the November 2012 election - Barack Obama is no longer the President and Harry Reid is not the Senate Majority leader.
Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Unemployment Statistics by State.
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