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Karin Housley and the National Debt

A Casual Disregard for Doing the Work for Minnesotans

It’s clear that there is a pattern here. On issue after issue, Karin Housley has demonstrated a casual disregard for doing the work that Minnesotans expect of their U.S. Senator. Today, let’s look at Housley’s inability to explain how she would reduce the national debt.

In a recent interview, Housley declared that the “the national debt was one of the reasons that I ran” and proceeded to say that “we need to look at the programs that aren’t working” to reduce the debt. But when asked in that same interview to name a specific program she thought was not working, Housley was unable to name a single example and could only say: “I think really looking at programs that aren’t working and really where can we shorten things up there.”

Again, that is an answer a person gives when they have not done the work to understand the issue to solve problems. The result? Housley is once again left to be led by powerful special interests and party leaders who do not have Minnesota’s best interest at heart.  Continue reading “Karin Housley and the National Debt”

Dems flip economy script on GOP amid stagnant wages

The following article by Niv Elis was posted on the Hill website August 9, 2018:

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Democrats are flipping the script on Republicans, blaming the Trump administration’s policies for lackluster wage growth as they seek to blunt any political benefits from the growing economy for the GOP.

It’s a significant change from just two years ago, when Democrats broadly hoped that falling unemployment numbers would help Hillary Clinton keep the White House in Democratic hands.

At the time, Donald Trump and Republicans used stagnant wages to bolster their argument that growth under President Obama was sluggish and that the GOP should be put back in the White House.

View the complete article here.

Doublespeak and the National Debt

The following article by Ryan Erickson and Kevin DeGood was posted on the Center for American Progress website March 30, 2017:

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House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster takes his seat on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 2, 2015.

On March 9, 2017, Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) dropped by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment to cheer on its work in setting the legislative priorities related to the country’s water infrastructure: ports, canals, and more. In remarks noting the urgency of needed repairs to water infrastructure, Shuster referenced President Donald Trump’s pledge to make $1 trillion in infrastructure investments. Shuster said, “Look, a trillion dollars is not going to come from the federal government.”

It was a short statement at a subcommittee hearing that usually would not result in attention-grabbing headlines. But, despite the modest setting, the statement was telling. Continue reading “Doublespeak and the National Debt”