House Republicans Kick Off 2014 By Ignoring Everything the American People Want

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/01/24/house-republicans-kick-2014-ignoring-american-people.html

House Republicans Kick Off 2014 By Ignoring Everything the American People Want
By: Rmuse
Friday, January, 24th, 2014, 9:16 am



When Republicans officially took control of the House in 2011, they were still promising their entire focus was job creation, and yet they began the 112th Congress attacking women’s rights, voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and fighting to preserve tax cuts for the richest Americans. Now, three years later House Republicans’ first three actions were attacking women’s rights, launching a repeal effort of another 2010 law, and passed legislation to enrich the dirty energy industry. Republicans are proving to be resistant to change and in less than three weeks they have shown Americans that they have no intention of changing and are on pace to waste another year pandering to their special interests instead of working for all Americans.


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This session of Congress began with a plethora of issues that demanded attention to get Americans back to work and address income inequality that is retarding economic growth. There has been no House action to reinstate unemployment benefits for millions of out-of-work Americans, pass a farm bill, address immigration reform, raise the minimum wage, or restore food stamps for 48 million Americans suffering because Republicans are too busy wasting time to create jobs. Instead of addressing the issues important to Americans, Republicans attacked women’s rights, environmental protections, and a law to prevent the rich from avoiding taxes all to waste taxpayer money and time and garner greater donations for the next election. None of the Republican legislation creates one job, grows the economy, or boosts GDP growth because that is not their focus; pandering to their special interests is.

Republicans have no intention of working to help the people, or doing what the voters say is important such as immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, creating jobs through infrastructure repair, or allowing women to decide when they start their families. However, the religious right wants to control women, the dirty energy industry wants to destroy the environment for greater profits, and the richest one-percent want to avoid paying taxes, so Republicans began 2014 the same way they started the past three years; working solely for their special interests’ campaign donations and against the American people.

[jwirr]

1. The people who are voting for these do nothings should wake up. We are not the only ones getting

hurt by this. The entire nation is being hurt.

[rbixby]

2. I'm pretty sure they don't want anything to get better

Because if it did, then it would be a win for Obama too, and they just can't handle that.

[sakabatou]

3. Of course they'd ignore

They're the "ME! ME! ME!" party.