Economic Recovery Package Helps Everyone

by James Parks, Feb 4, 2009

After eight years of their go-it-alone conservative policies that created the economic crisis we’re in today, congressional Republicans still are playing partisan politics. They’re threatening to scuttle President Obama’s economic recovery package unless they get bigger tax breaks for Big Business and the rich.

The Center for Community Change, a national coalition of more than 300 grassroots organizations, joins many of us in the labor and progressive communities in a drive to convince members of the Senate to pass Obama’s economic recovery and reinvestment legislation.

The center lays out the reasons Congress should pass the bill:

The stimulus bill now in the Senate puts the right emphasis not only on short-term public spending to create desperately needed new jobs but also repair some of the deeper problems we face. President Obama has said that economic stimulus should be “a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.”  By investing in green technology, Medicaid and health clinic expansion and public education, the stimulus package not only meets our short-term needs but also helps us achieve our long-term potential as a nation.

As AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said yesterday in a statement:

The future of our nation’s middle class isn’t a blue issue or red issue—it’s a jobs issue, plain and simple, and we need more of them fast. It is time for those who are attempting to obstruct real change to step beyond ideology and partisanship and to think about the families and communities that need help now.

The AFL-CIO is pushing for Congress to quickly and aggressively make a major investment in our country. We must create jobs and invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency, transportation, schools and health care. We also must invest in America’s families and the nation’s workforce by ensuring that states can fund the services they depend on, including health care, public safety and education.

Click here to urge your senators to support the stimulus package.

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