Where are the jobs?

Just received an email update from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, where she asks the question, “Mr. President, where are the jobs?” Then she goes off on a tirade on how the Republicans are protecting the job creators who are in the upper 1 percent of the economy.

How disingenuous! Cathy’s view discounts that there have been thousands of jobs created … in other countries by the very “job creators” she protects. Over 50,000 factories and small manufacturing businesses have shuttered their doors since 2001, most under the Republican regime in Congress.

She voted against extending unemployment benefits for those who lost their jobs. She voted against health care reform and she voted for the Ryan budget, which will dismantle Medicare as we know it.

Yet, she says she is for the “people.” Which ones? Try the wealthy contributors and fat cat lobbyists, because she sure isn’t representing the people of Eastern Washington.

But, you get what you pay for in D.C. How many jobs bills have come out of the Republican controlled House? Zip, zero, nada. Instead we get pablum and rhetoric. Cathy, where are the jobs?

Ed Simpson

Spokane Valley