August 4, 2010
Dear Mr. Hound:
I am writing to you today to update you on my work to help folks in North Carolina meet our challenges and make the most of our opportunities.
My top priorities in the U.S. House of Representatives have been jobs, jobs, and jobs. Specifically, I support common sense policies that will create an economy that works for the middle class so every North Carolinian who is willing to work hard has the opportunity to make the most of his or her God-given abilities.
We need to rebuild America and restore the American Dream. Economic recovery in our country will be powered by small businesses. I have been working to enact eight separate tax cuts for small businesses to jumpstart hiring and boost the economy. A tax credit that I proposed was made law and is already being used to support new jobs, like the new textile jobs at Parkdale Mills in Sanford. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, it is supporting 4.5 million new workers across the country. These are people who would otherwise be on the unemployment rolls, so this is good for our economy, for workers and for taxpayers.
The recent recession cost us 8 million American jobs—and years of policies that favored the special interests cost us 4.6 million American manufacturing jobs. Although too many people are out of work and family budgets are getting squeezed, bold action to correct the failed policies of the past has started to turn our economy around. Recently, the Triangle Business Journal reported that the Recovery Act supported 90,000 North Carolina jobs and more than 3 million jobs across the country. We have added more than a hundred thousand new U.S. manufacturing jobs in the last six months. That's good news, but it's not enough. This summer, I am working with House leadership to promote an American Manufacturing Jobs agenda that will close loopholes that help companies move jobs overseas, support American jobs at home, and enable U.S. companies to bring back the label "Made in the U.S.A."
I am proud of my work to protect consumers and to keep corporate special interests from preying on working families. I helped pass a Wall Street reform bill that will rein in the worst practices of the big bankers on Wall Street and end the "too big to fail" policy and taxpayer-funded bailouts. It builds on the work already done to reform credit card company practices, end abuses of credit card holders, and empower individuals to make informed choices for their financial future. These new laws will put the focus on Main Street and middle class families.
Long term, we need budget discipline and smart investments like Pell Grants and higher education assistance and school construction. I've worked since my first term in office – and back to my days as a county commissioner, a state legislator and as state schools superintendent – to build schools, create jobs and invest in our communities.
You can be sure that I will continue to promote these priorities and represent your interests. Please feel free to contact me with your ideas and concerns. Working together, using North Carolina values and old fashioned common sense, we will build a brighter future.
Sincerely,
Bob Etheridge
Member of Congress
The Hound already knows that this man just doesn't get it. He is a typical eastern North Carolina Good Ole Boy Network ramrod politician. Just look at his record and where he has been on the issues throughout his career. He is yesterday's news and this mindset is not going to solve tomorrow's problems.
His top priority is jobs. How's that working out? The things that this Congress has done have destroyed the ability to create jobs. The stimulus money did little to create jobs and in fact it has placed a burden that is weighing down the economy and this yokel also supported the TARP bailout. I know this is a computer generated answer, but someone set the parameters and it shows the lack of respect for the intelligence he (or his staff) has for his constituents.
What has he done to help the middle class people in North Carolina? The Stimulus paid off cronies and TARP bailed out the very Fat Cats that he rails against in this letter. And once again I reiterate that this Man supported both of these bills. This does not support his contention that he is representing the working class here in North Carolina. This man also supports Cap and Trade, which will double your energy costs. Can you afford that? This wreckless spending and taxation is a burden to the average families and individuals and in the end it will mean a higher tax burden upon everyone, including the small business growth needed to restart the job creation engine.
Read the talking Points about supporting the Made in the USA label and his voluntary submission that he supported the so-called Financial Reform Boondoggle that empowers the Federal Reserve. Ask this man what he has tangibly done to reform the unfair foreign trade system. Cap and Trade isn't going to bring manufacturing jobs back. I will assure you of that. What has he done to reign in the illegal immigration that is suppressing the wages of the working class people here in North Carolina? Ask him why he supports a finance bill that gives even more power to the very bankers he rails against? Ask him if he supports auditing the privately owned Federal Reserve? Ask him how making Security and Exchange Commission Investigation Information private, and under the wings of the Federal Reserve, benefits the public?
This man thinks his constituents and the people of North carolina are stupid. He talks about Common Sense and has displayed authoritarian arrogance time and time again. He would best serve this state if he would step aside and let someone who truly cares and wants to fix his area, this State, and this Country come into office and move past the partisanship, cronyism, corruption, and stagnation that his era has represented.
People of the Lillington area. Remember what this man has done this November and think about whether he truly has represented your interests in Washington:
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