Congresswoman Nan Hayworth (R-NY) has had a rough month. Just a couple of weeks ago, she called the police on seniors trying to tell her not to cut Social Security and Medicare at her district office. Now she’s facing heat from constituents blasting her at a town hall meeting for her insistence on cutting taxes and allowing companies to ship jobs overseas.
In the town hall meeting, constituents repeatedly asked what she was going to do about bringing jobs back to this country when companies like Verizon continue to send jobs overseas. Hayworth kept dodging with the answer that we should lower tax rates for corporations, but couldn’t answer why companies like Verizon ship jobs overseas when they pay few taxes on billions in profit.
Make sure you watch until the end, when a constituent, exasperated with a meandering Hayworth filibuster that did not address his point, cried out “You are not the teacher here. You are a Congresswoman!”
Many people have short memories. They have forgotten how many jobs this country lost under George Bush. They have forgotten how much in debt this country was when George Bush left office. The pressure of trying to right this capsized country while trying to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs has been tremendous on the President. He said it would not be easy, that it would take all of us working together and it would take some time. Well, not all the country is on the same team, so it’s been a gigantic struggle. Now the other team wants us to bite each other in the back, bicker amongst ourselves and doubt our caring, patriotic President. It makes it easier for them to swoop in and take over the country for the plutocrats. We HAVE to stand united, or divided we WILL fall. It’s time to get together people, to support and work with the President. It’s tug-of-war time, folks, so grab onto the rope and start pulling, to take this country back, for the benefit of all of us, not just the wealthiest among us. This is OUR country, good or bad, but WE have the POWER to make it GREAT. I still have HOPE. I still believe in this country. It’s time to get our game back. It’s time we take back our PRIDE. Who’s with me ?
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