CREATE JOBS - IT'S THE LAW!
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4619
This year's State of the Union address
was only the second since 1948 by a Democratic president that did
not mention poverty or the poor. And the President and Congress
haven't promoted a bold jobs program.
"When the banks had a national emergency, they bailed them
out and they found $700 billion," said Cornel West, during a
9-state Poverty Tour with Tavis Smiley. “When we go to war,
we find $1.3 trillion. When the poor and working classes are
living in a state of emergency, it's a matter of national
security, especially the children. We have 21 percent of our
precious children of all colors living in poverty. That's morally
obscene in the richest country in the history of the world."
It's also illegal, say experts. They point out that the federal
government is required by law to create jobs. The
Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, the Federal Reserve Act,
and international law require it. A bill now in the House, H.R.
870, would fund job creation as required by Humphrey-Hawkins. If
this is not passed, the President legally must instruct the Fed
to fund job creation.
European nations have their own crises now, but not our level of
poverty. Their example, as detailed in this new column written
for RootsAction by Steven Hill, is glaring proof that we could do
much better than we dare to even dream.
CLICK HERE
TO Tell the President
and Congress to create jobs now.
Resources:
Europe's Quiet Revolution
The Poverty Tour?
Combating the War on the Poor: Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on
Cross-Country "Poverty Tour"
Lost in the Debt Ceiling Debate:
The Legal Duty to Create Jobs
Please sign the petition http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4619 (and leave your TWO CENTS WORTH on this very important House Bill, H.R. 870, I did. thinkingblue)
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Attn: President Obama and the Florida leadership in Congress,
As a concerned citizen of this
country, I find it beyond reason how a nation such as ours can
turn its back so easily on those who find themselves in poverty
or in a working poor status due to the lack of jobs. We continue
to see our elected officials, who were voted in so they could
speak and make laws on our behalf but instead appear to only
worry about the top one percent's, (wealthy billionaires) tax
burdens.
It's actually laughable! We are fast becoming the BIGGEST JOKE on
the planet.
Human suffering has always been around, take Ireland's infamous
POTATO FAMINE and the unthinkable misery, starvation and cruelity
brought on by wars or oligarchies but we are a new nation, united
by those who escaped tyranny so that human beings could live in a
land of laws that care and protect all the people not just the
few.
The main purpose of our country's leaders should always be to try
and eradicate the malevolence perpetrated by man upon man.
Come on, do the job we elected you to do and stop using all your
energies to throw the wool over our eyes in order to make the
wealthy approve of you and keep contributing to your reelections.
Pass H.R. 870 into
law NOW! http://www.dsausa.org
CLICK HERE TO Tell the President and Congress to create jobs now.