Subject: Tell Congress: Create Jobs Now! |
From: "Bob Fertik, Democrats.com" <activist@democrats.com> |
Date: 1/18/11, 12:09 |
To: barriticus@gmail.com |
In December, Republicans demanded - and won - an extension of Bush's tax cuts for the rich costing $858 billion over two years. Amazingly, that same $858 billion could create jobs for all 14.5 million unemployed Americans paying nearly $30,000 per year! The rich don't need more tax breaks. But 14.5 million unemployed Americans desperately need jobs. Tell Congress: Create Jobs Now! The new Tea Party Republican Congress wants to slash jobs to give more tax cuts to the rich. They won't create jobs unless we build a powerful nationwide grassroots movement to demand them. That's exactly why we're launching the Job Party - to create a movement more powerful than the Tea Party. Here's our plan: 1. A video contest to convince Congress to Create Jobs Now. Watch some great videos here. Vote on videos made by activists like you. If you can, make your own video urging Congress to create jobs now. 2. An Emergency Jobs Bill to create 15 million jobs right now. Read ideas from activists like you. Propose your own ideas. Suggest thinkers we should contact. 3. Rallies this week at local Congressional offices with Progressive Democrats of America. Bring signs saying "Create Jobs Now!" In the weeks ahead, you'll hear more about the Job Party. We're reaching out to progressive leaders and allies to build a grassroots movement that's far more powerful than the Tea Party. In 2011, we'll lobby for our Emergency Jobs Bill. If Congress refuses to act, we'll recruit Job Party candidates to run against them (on existing ballot lines) in 2012. To become one of our founding members, visit our new web site: Thanks for all you do! - Bob, Charles, Diane, Harry, Jonathan, Justin, and the rest of the team p.p.s. Please share your thoughts in our new blog: p.p.s. We also support local rallies this week on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision which let corporations spend unlimited funds to buy Congress and the White House. We must pass new laws and a Constitutional Amendment to get corporations out of politics. |
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