Jobs promise broken

The Republican tea party ran on budget cuts and creating jobs, but instead they are chasing social issues and cutting low-cost/high-impact services. Their actions to strip funds from public broadcasting, senior citizens, birth control and even tsunami, tornado and hurricane warning programs create little savings at great risk.

I only have one question for the Republican tea party pledge to America: Where are the jobs?

When are their very rich sponsors going to use their massive tax cuts to hire more chauffeurs, butlers and maids? When are the billions they are hoarding going to be invested?

The Republicans are cutting collective bargaining for public employees to punish unions that traditionally support Democrats. Their latest stabs at the windmill involve congressional hearings on the radicalization of Muslims and enforcement of the Defense of Marriage Act. I wonder why they think that a few radical Muslims and defending straight marriage with a 50 percent divorce rate is our highest national priority. Once again, where are the jobs?

The jobs were lost because Republican financial policies sent our economy into a tailspin in 2008. Unfortunately, the social issues they now chase are not related in any way to solving our financial crisis.

Pete Scobby

Newport, Wash.