What We Women Want

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, she’s right. Did you know that the average clothing cost for children has risen $310 during the president’s 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 don’t 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 Americans—providing 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.

***Imagine a time in the future, when all women can turn on the nightly news and hear how something actually got done in Washington.”

I guess you didn't notice that we no longer need ‘something done’ by our government. We need for them to leave us alone. To get off our backs in terms of regulation, taxes, numerous and conflicting laws, and political correctness. In short, to adhere to the Constitution - both the spirit and the letter.

As Reagan put it, government isn’t the solution, government is the problem.
Government cannot be the solution, because government isn’t society, government limits society - and our problems, while susceptible of solution by society, are too big to be solved by government. Government is inherently run by people who don’t take responsibility, who claim that everyone is responsible for everything - but whose nostrums establish conditions in which nobody is responsible for anything in particular.

A substantial majority of women voted for Obama.

A majority of men voted against Obama.

Women voted for Obama in a larger majority than the men voted against him and is why he’s in the White House.

It is as simple fact.

Obviously it is a generalization, a factual generalization, and not all women voted for Obama and not all men voted against Obama.

This article is titled “What We Women Want” so I continued with the generalization/theme of the article. Where’s your rage at the author for her generalizations?

And speaking of generalizations, I didn’t “blame women for everything” and I didn’t accuse you of voting for Obama nor would I.

So are you done with the name calling?

“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.”
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And if we factor in the number who work twenty hours and not forty as they did a few years ago and if we factor in those who have lost a great benefit package and now have little if anything in the way of benefits and if we factor in all those who are working for half the hourly rate they used to earn and if we factor in a REAL adjustment for inflation we find that in truth the country is in a worse state than during the “GREAT DEPRESSION” of the thirties. Probably a FAR WORSE state unless I am badly mistaken.

I want what I had when I was 25, gasoline for $.28 a gallon, new cars for $3500, two bedroom apartments for $120 a month or so, decent houses for $15000, huge seafood platters for $2.25 including all the trimmings and the iced tea, steak lunches at Western Sizzlin’ for $1.69 and a salary of $147 a week with great benefits. What’s the chance of that ever happening again? For those not old enough to know, one week of that salary bought more than my entire MONTHLY social security check buys now, a lot more in fact. I quit smoking long ago and certainly could not afford to smoke now but in those days I smoked and hardly noticed the cost, a CARTON of cigarettes could be had for less than half the price of one pack now. The price of a single cigarette of a top brand now exceeds the price of a pack in those days. The price of a gallon of pure gasoline unpolluted by ethanol is now SIXTEEN times the price in those days. The price of ten percent ethanol is thirteen times the price of pure gasoline in those days. You could not live now as I lived then on $1500 a week and probably not on $2000 a week. On top of all that I am exposed to idiots in the government and media talking about how there is no inflation now.

Someone should remind her that her husband is the one working his arse off to provide money, money that cupcake balances. She isn’t the one out there facing the very hard realities that her husband has to face as a white male and I wonder why cupcake doesn’t go out and earn her own way.

This is why I have a prejudice against modern housewives. They are so emotionally immature (I’m speaking in this case).

“We need for them to leave us alone. To get off our backs in terms of regulation, taxes, numerous and conflicting laws, and political correctness. In short, to adhere to the Constitution - both the spirit and the letter.”

We also need women like you to STOP pushing everyone to take care of you. Hard enough to hold ourselves up, much less someone who wants to make all the choices, but do none of the work.

AMEN!

I’m on SSD right now and I am certainly no parasite! I had a huge amount of ‘hits’ over a short period of time and certainly am not lazy or loafing and not sucking as much as I can off of taxpayers. I’m building my resume while I restructure and rebuild my life.

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