Jobs

Saturday, October 1: Occupy Wall Street ... and Albuquerque and Santa Fe and ...

September 30, 2011 by Democracy for N...

JOIN THE MOVEMENT: Hastily organized "occupations" in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street have now been scheduled for tomorrow, October 1, in and (Facebook pages). Click for info sheets for Occupy Burque and Occupy Santa Fe in Solidarity With Occupy Wall Street.

Saturday at ABQ Balloon Fiesta: Working Families to Launch Hot Air Balloon Calling for Congress to Take Action on Jobs Crisis

September 30, 2011 by Democracy for N...

From New Mexico labor unions, the Central New Mexico Labor Council and Working America: Jobless New Mexicans and working families from across the state will launch a hot air balloon starting Saturday, October 1, at 7:00 AM at Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiesta calling for lawmakers to focus on fixing the growing jobs crisis affecting the country.

Debunking the Myths: Tax Cuts Don't Create Jobs

September 30, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Here's a very important article by retired U.S. magistrate judge Vanzetta McPherson: Politicians perpetuate lie ...

If you repeat a lie often enough, people begin to be­lieve it.

The lie in question, told state­wide and nationwide, is that there is a direct link between taxing businesses and increased unemployment.

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There are so many tax breaks available for corporations in Alabama that in 2008, 67 per­cent of Alabama's 25,000 corpor­ations paid no taxes at all.

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Politicians know all too well that tax breaks do not create jobs.

...  why do politicians perpetu­ate the lie that cutting taxes will create jobs? It's profit -- only this time it's personal profit, and it comes at every election cycle, neatly packaged as a campaign contribution.

As we've said time and again, if tax cuts for corporations and millionaires created jobs, we would have been at full employment since the Bush tax cuts kicked in.  It's the big lie.  America needs more articulate, outspoken, truthtellers like Vanzetta McPherson to debunk this Big Economic Lie.

Shorter Mo Brooks: We Got Ours

September 26, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Congressional Republicans have been using the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund as a political football.  Now there's a real possibility of a government shutdown because they've insisted on budget resolutions that either don't replenish the FEMA fund or cut fuel efficiency programs to offset disaster relief funding.  Amazingly, even Republicans (like those from Alabama) representing areas recently been struck by natural disasters and receiving FEMA aid are opposed to funding FEMA.

Now Mo Brooks (R, AL-05) offers a window onto the thinking of such Republicans, essentially "We already got ours, screw everybody else!"

U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R) said most of the FEMA money for north Alabama storm victims had already been distributed, minimizing the local impact of any potential shutdown.

Report on Energized MoveOn and NM Unions Rally for Jobs, Not Cuts in Santa Fe 9/17

September 23, 2011 by Democracy for N...

This is a report from the field by Elizabeth Cook-Romero one of the citizen activists of MoveOn New Mexico. The group is involved in helping to coordinate a series of demonstrations in New Mexico advocating citizen action to help Rebuild the Dream.