Corporations aren’t on strike. They’re holding a lock out. Americans want to work. Corporations have enough money to hire every single American looking for work, but they’re refusing to allow Americans to walk in the door.

Joe Heck’s political career has been funded by corporations that concentrate wealth in the hands of their top executives instead of creating more jobs… and now, Heck is working to give those corporations, and their fat cat executives, special permanent tax breaks. Heck has his job in Congress, and his financial elite friends are raking in the cash. Keeping that dirty arrangement going seems to be the only jobs plan Heck is willing to consider.

Among the proposals of the Spending Reduction Act is the elimination of over 300,000 federal jobs – 15 percent of the civilian employment currently in the budget.

Mike Coffman introduced H. R. 270, a bill that would force 2.75 million workers into unpaid layoffs in a time of high unemployment.

March 12, 2009: Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona congressional district 6 votes to cut the pay of American construction workers working on government contracts so that they are paid less than the local prevailing wage. July 31, 2009: Jeff Flake votes to deny the right of American shareholders who own a corporation to vote against [...]

Politics is all about priorities. On the motion to extend unemployment insurance benefits for laid-off Americans searching for jobs but unable to find jobs: Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri voted to deny Americans unemployment insurance. On the motion to cut funding for the F-22 fighter planes that were designed for fighting a Soviet air force [...]

The 12th district of central Ohio that Pat Tiberi represents in Congress has been hit harder than most by this economic recession. People are losing their jobs and new occupations to replace them aren’t available. The Columbus area is in crisis. In this environment, Paula Brooks has stepped up to challenge Patrick Tiberi for the [...]

Last week, Senator John Ensign of Nevada voted against a six-month extension of unemployment insurance benefits for America’s jobless workers. As he has repeatedly declared, the expense is simply not justified and will only encourage the jobless to seek government handouts in the future. Senator John Ensign also voted for billions of dollars in subsidies [...]

When Glenn Thompson gets in the mood to complain about unemployment rates above ten percent, he might do better to pause, look at himself in the mirror, and ask how his own activities in Congress are contributing to the problem.

Some people say that the economic recession has ended, but experts warn that the economy is almost certainly not improving. Profits for big corporations are up, but ordinary Americans are still suffering from extremely high levels of unemployment. U.S. Representative Jim McDermott offered legislation this week to help. He introduced H.R. 3548, the Unemployment Compensation [...]