New Bailout: the Local Jobs for America Act

We all know how the stimulus bill worked out. We were supposed to see the creation of millions of shovel ready jobs. The reality is, we have not seen one private sector job created.

Help Stop This New Bailout: the Local Jobs for America Act

Get ready for another bailout scam: The Local Jobs for America Act, H.R. 4812.

Introduced in the House of Representatives on March 10, 2010, H.R. 4812 is a gigantic bailout of government employees and union jobs. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), who has garnered 154 cosponsors for his bill, insists that the first stimulus did a “pretty fair job” but “clearly is not going to be sufficient” to reduce the current 9.7 percent national unemployment rate, so he’d like to get another stimulus-type bill passed. However, this new piece of deficit spending will come at the expense of hardworking American taxpayers.

In a summary provided by the House Committee on Education and Labor, this specialized and narrowly focused bill which has no pay-as-you-go restrictions in Congress on its $75 billion price tag, is supposed to create one million jobs, support and maintain public sector jobs, help community organizations (ACORN?) and all without raising taxes. But the terms solidly indicate that mostly union jobs will be supported and maintained; no job creation is actually included in the bill, just job training.

Rep. Miller, is only too happy to bring home more pork to his state’s unionized government employees. The city of San Francisco is already planning on rehiring 17,000 laid off workers. In a city like San Francisco, over 9,000 employees earn at least $100,000 a year, and many, earn well over $200,000. Across the Bay smaller municipalities, about 15, are salivating over their share of tax money as well, expecting as much as $340 million between them.

H.R. 4812 would bail out union jobs for large cities and postpone large public sector layoffs until after election time. While many Americans are losing their jobs, having their wages frozen, or seeing their wages or salaries cut back along with all sorts of benefits, this newest scheme would keep the unionized government employees in the pink. Private sector workers will once again bailout the fat cats in the public sector and in the community organizations that have no constitutional right to taxpayer money. The ridiculous claim that one million jobs will be created by this legislation must be seen for what it is — a ludicrous lie to get Main Street Americans to look the other way while their money is being poured into the pockets of those who elected the present administration and Congress.

Contact your Congressmen and tell them to STOP the spending and bailouts for special interests!