Where Are The Jobs?
While the very serious people in Washington are consumed with a fabricated crisis, millions of Americans are out of work. The Republicans won big in 2010 by claiming they were all about job creation, but not one jobs bill has even been introduced in the Boehner-led House. The debt ceiling controversy is a diversion from the real problems we're facing. The national debt could be eviscerated in 10 years if we adopted the People's Budget, proposed by the Progressive Caucus, without the unthinkable cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security that are being discussed now. And all of the "solutions" [...]