Republicans Wage War Against Jobs
from Brent Budowsky at The Hill: http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/232659-gop-wages-war-against-jobs
When I was a younger man I marched in support of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. I am a union man. Proud and strong. No apologies. No surrender. No regrets. No retreat. While I am not honored to own a union card, I consider myself a union man. Now and forever . . .
Today the Republican Party, led by its candidate for president, wages war against the jobs of those who serve with the police. Last Friday a triumphalist Mitt Romney, pouncing on what he considered political opportunity, waved his arms with a glowing smirk while repeating his support for previous firings of police and promising to fire more police . . .
Today Mitt Romney, who ranked nearly last in the nation creating jobs as governor, lusts for the presidency. He seems joyous that many are jobless today. He celebrates their pain as his good fortune. He panders to the hatred of unions that his father deplored. He forgets that Ronald Reagan led the Screen Actors Guild. He treats the jobs of police and firefighters, and nurses and teachers, as the petty cash of his unprincipled ambition . . .
Today the GOP wages war against programs that create jobs, policies that promote jobs, workers who desperately need jobs and women who want to be paid fairly when they have jobs. Today the GOP wages war against the jobs of police who protect our neighborhoods, firefighters who protect our homes, teachers who educate our children, nurses who tend our wounds, bargaining that protects their rights and earned pensions that protect their security.
I am a union man, and proud of it. Republicans who wage war against unions and jobs are waging war against American values and prosperity.
read: http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/brent-budowsky/232659-gop-wages-war-against-jobs
Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics.
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