Posted on 07/25/2014 9:35:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Just the other day when I was home in Dunn, a woman standing in the checkout line told me that she felt as though she had less money in her pocket. And, unfortunately, shes right. Did you know that the average clothing cost for children has risen $310 during the presidents term and that food costs have risen an average of $210? Or that an average family of four is missing as much as $1,120 from their monthly budget? I bet women do.
No one understands the true implications of these missing dollars better than women. Women are the ones balancing the household checkbook, worrying about health care and education decisions for their families, and are the ones sitting at the kitchen table at the end of the month crunching numbers to figure out how to cut costs so the dollars dont run out before the month does. I understand this because I have done this and still do. Having worked at the local Burger King during high school, and then paying my way through community college and nursing school, I can relate to the pressures that women feel.
Women talk to me every day about the situations they face at work and home, and how they want a government that works to find solutions. My colleagues and I want to work together for solutions too. Our goal is to empower and engage every woman in this country, regardless of political-leaning or socioeconomic status. We are aware of the facts. The sad fact is that for every job the White House boasts about creating, two new people were added to the food stamp program. Additionally, if we were to factor in the number of people who have given up looking for work, real unemployment would be an astounding 10.2 percent. This is inexcusable. Our job is fighting to create good-paying jobs, grow a healthy economy and help hardworking Americans keep more of their paycheck.
So what are we doing in the House to resolve this? House Republicans are passing legislation with our Democrat colleagues to create jobs and get Americans back to work. There are currently 321 bills that have passed in the House of Representatives, yet still await action in the Senate. Just this past week, the House took up several bills to improve educational access and affordability for young Americansproviding higher-ed opportunities to support families and spur economic growth. To further tackle the issue of unemployment, the House passed legislation called the SKILLS Act which helps workers to acquire the education and skills-training they need for in-demand jobs. This legislation gives women new opportunities by providing them with the hands-on training necessary to transition into a new field of work or move up the ladder. Our party is one of solutions, and we are working for the American people to ensure that we are making their lives easier.
Unfortunately, due to the current Obama economy, I understand the need to stretch every dollar. However, surging gas prices, increasingly-high food and childcare costs do not have to be the norm. Fortunately, women have the opportunity to change the status-quo. We represent nearly 52 percent of the voting electorate, and we are the ones who are going to determine which direction our country heads. The woman who juggles a hectic schedule at work, packs school lunches for her children, finds the time to balance her household checkbook, and makes critical healthcare decisions for her family will be the same woman who will determine elections and policies that will influence our country.
Imagine a time in the future, when all women can turn on the nightly news and hear how something actually got done in Washington. Instead of learning about increasing costs or the new bills she will have to pay, she will hear how decisions made in Washington that day made her life a little easier and a little less chaotic.
This is what my colleagues and I are fighting for every day a bright future for women and all Americans.
When are you men going to listen to us? The world would be a lot better if you did
This is why the "Pro Choice" Movement is such a potent label
What is often missed,
is that these do not bring Joy or Happiness
Second Nobel Truth of Buddhism...
the origin of dukkha is commonly explained as
craving or thirst.
The very act of wanting This and Not That,
instead of being Grateful for What Is,
and surrendering to God's Will and Intent
is Toxic to the Soul, and causes Suffering
Men are no Better
Their forms of self destruction are often very different,
but the ways they blind themselves to Joy,
are no better.
The hell they don't. It's by design.
I call it the "Daddy's Little Princess" syndrome. Most women are raised to believe that "Daddy" will always take care of them and that they will be eventually swept off their feet by a Prince Charming who will assume the "Daddy" role.
Unfortunately, many of them have adopted "Uncle Sam" as their Prince Charming and they vote accordingly.
A government that gets the hell out of the way would be the solution.
The writer of the article forgot Former President Reagan’s famous quote. “Government is not the solution. Government is the problem.” If this is the Renee Elmers of the Republican Party, am reminded of democrats, in her writing, wanting government to do something.
B/S and you know it, we are not
And no one is less capable of relating cause to effect than women. They seem to think things are more expensive now because white male Republicans took all the money and used it to ban abortions.
Don't blame me for the sweeping generalization - the article chose to speak in that voice. I'm just following along. :)
blah, blah, blah, that’s all I hear from you
“Beer, and to see something naked.”
Exactly, but by the comments of many in here they obviously are not getting what the article is about
“House Republicans are passing legislation with our Democrat colleagues to create jobs and get Americans back to work.”
Unless the bills this amnesty-loving, Boehner flunkie, bimbo (who courted tea partiers when she first ran) is touting are designed to demolish Mordor on the Potomac, then she is advocating that the solution for women, and other fungible group politics groups, is more government.
She has been in Congress all of 3 years and has already sold her soul to big government and the various gibsmedat interest groups.
She still wants government to solve her problems. Dim liberal. What real women want is to start repealing all of the unconstitutional legislation that is strangling our nation and destroying prosperity and intruding on our lives.
*snicker* Too busy waiting for the sammich like I was? =D
“One wish?” asks the guy, “I thought the deal was three...”
“Look, I have been in that bottle for a thousand years. My back hurts, I haven't seen the wife and kids, and I got things to do. One wish. Take it or leave it.”
“Okay, let me think... Well, I've always wanted to go to Hawaii but, I'm afraid to fly because planes crash and I don't like boats cause I get seasick and boats sink. If I only get one wish, I guess it would be to have you build a bridge to Hawaii.”
“Did I mention my back hurts?” asks the genie. “Think of the steel, the concrete... No, I'm sorry, your going to have to think of something else.”
So the guy says, "Okay, okay. Well, my first marriage ended in divorce, the second in heartbreak. My current girlfriend thinks I don't care about her. All of my relationships are confusing and difficult. I don't know what makes women happy, what makes them cry. I guess if I can't go to Hawaii, then, I would like to understand women.”
After a short pause the genie asks, “Would you like that bridge two lanes or four?”
Indeed that logic has made us poor and unsafe.
I live in Massachusetts (at least for another four weeks) and even though I vote conservative, I must be held responsible for the way the majority of my fellow Bay Staters vote.
So if you are a woman, you must unfortunately shoulder the responsibility for the way your fellow sisters collectively vote - even though you may individually follow a different path (and thank you for doing that).
The writer wants bigger government, as if that were the solution instead of the problem.
“Did you know that the average clothing cost for children has risen $310 during the presidents term and that food costs have risen an average of $210?”
The author is mathematically illiterate.
$310 a minute? A month? Over the life of the child?
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