What's At Stake:
Jobs Now! Senate leaders are working on legislation now to create jobs. The House of Representatives passed HR 2847, the Jobs for Main Street Act, on December 16, which provided over $50-billion in financing to generate construction employment. Now we're waiting for the Senate to act. But the industry simply can't wait. The Senate must pass legislation in time for this construction season. With the unemployment rate in construction at nearly 23% -- the highest of any sector of the economy -- the time is now. The House legislation also extended unemployment benefits and health care assistance to laid-off workers. Please write your Senators now, or call them at the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. Ask them to support jobs legislation now! The construction industry can't wait!

Campaign Expiration Date:
March 15, 2010

Hate to open a bag of worms,

But with the amount of money the unions spent to buy the president his job, he should be calling you, not vice versa. The numbers the Union DONATED makes me sick. I have not been stmulated yet!

Yea, lets raise taxes and the national debt to create jobs. 

This bill is a classic example of what's wrong with the Washington right now; we need to stop throwing tax-money at the problem and quit looking for the quick fix!  Sure, you'll create jobs for the next five years but your kids will pay for it for the next 25+.

HR 2847 will cost about $180 BILLION.

BILLION!

This bill has good ideas but Washington needs to slow down and be a bit more reserved about throwing tax-money around.

How about we lower taxes and let the consumer decide where the extra money goes?

Nothing builds recovery stronger and faster then infrastructure work. The great depression proved that. DPA benefits where you had to actually work while collecting a check.

50 Billion is not much if you spread it across all the states. One bank institution got more then that and one insurance company. Count the heads of who benefits from the bank and insurance bailout and then count the heads of how many benefited from that bailout then see how many head it helps if it goes to infrastructure work. PLUS the Bonus is. Repairs or new bridges, over passes, roads, and more.

People from the trades, equipment manufactures, auto manufactures, housing, engineers, job supers, many more have income from this. Where is the investment through the banks. They admitted to pay down debt of their own with the funds and then went and paid the bonus money to execs while we starve for work. But it did nothing for Main Street.

They did not touch phase 2 of stimulus money yet. If they used that money towards infratructure they will recover that money in taxes real quick. Right to the treasury. WIthout a tax raise.People will be back to work in many areas. Mortages may survive for many and maybe a cash flow in our economy.

Just my spin.