Reader urges citizens to vote for job growth

Are you better off today than four years ago?

Over 90 percent of Americans say yes! They have jobs, a home, money for food, clothing, other essentials. They pay more for food, gasoline, may have sucky jobs, and no raise in four years, not taken a vacation, but they are at least on par with where they were four years ago, after the second largest financial crash in US history. People in the 8 to 10 percent, who have lost jobs, lost homes, had to move, are working part-time - those are the people really hurting. Why hasn't the "recovery" reached every person, every family?

President Obama promised a better future for everyone, when he was elected four years ago. But when he was elected President, he assumed, as we all did, that the Congress was also elected to serve the people of the United States, and they also take an oath that pledges that support. We did not know at that time, during the Inaugauration Day celebrations, on Jan. 20, 2009, a select group of 22 Republicans, Paul Ryan and Newt Gingrich among them, were meeting in a private room, planning to undermine the recovery of the American economy by pledging to do nothing to create the conditions for new jobs to emerge in the private and public sectors and put people back to work, because it would help President Obama politically.

What is remarkable, with over 50 percent of the seats in Congress occupied by Republicans, the Obama administration has added over 4.5 million jobs to the workforce, in spite of opposition. But think of how many more jobs could have been added if Republicans had voted to help, rather than block, job growth bills!

Are you better off today? Read, listen, think, be an informed voter - then vote wisely!

Carolyn DuVall

Moses Lake