· Tea
Party Texan Ted Cruz led the government shutdown of October 1-16, 2013 that
caused about 800,000 federal employees to be furloughed and 1.3 million to
report to work without knowing when they would get paid. Operations resumed
October 17 after an interim appropriations bill was signed for fiscal year 2014.
Note: In August 2011, the US credit rating dropped for the first time in
history because a timely budget was not achieved.
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The
US has been trying to get health care since 1854; Democrat Franklin Pierce
vetoed a bill saying he believed social welfare was the responsibility of
the states. Democrat and Republican presidents alike have over the years tried
to build a health care system but it was not until Obamacare was passed in March
2010 that a comprehensive plan was enacted. Although, the Supreme Court upheld
Obamacare in 2012, Cruz continues to lead the
way in trying to eliminate it; by March 2014, Congress had voted on it 54
times.
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According to a report on outsourcing by Working America, manufacturing
employment went from 19.5 million workers in June 1979 to 11.5 million in
December 2009, a drop of 8 million workers. Although unemployment fell by September 2014,
there were still 9.3 million workers without jobs. A 2012 survey from Duke’s Fuqua
School of business found “only 4% of large companies had future plans
for relocating jobs back to the US.” Seth Hanlon, Director of Fiscal Reform,
Center for American Progress, explained that the US
tax code “rewards companies for making investments abroad—and leads to them
shifting offices, factories, and jobs abroad even if similar investments in the
US would be more profitable absent tax considerations.” On ABC’s This Week John
Boehner on September 28, 2014, said - there are 40 bills in the Senate and gave
the examples as the repeal of taxes on medical devices and implementation of
the Keystone Pipeline. In my opinion, these are poor examples of job creation
(the pipeline from Canada to TX is short term, will pollute the land and afford
only Texans with ongoing job opportunities.
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