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, 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.
“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 stopped listening at this point; the author seems to think all women are wise, married to infantile, ignorant men. Women are the reason we have a Democratic Party; there aren’t enough unassimilated ethnic minorities and perverts to carry a national election.
Correct. Since then, it's been a virtual beauty pageant of presidents. Only the better looking one wins. We got LBJ only because JFK was shot. We got Ford because Nixon resigned. And we only got Nixon because Humphrey and McGovern were even uglier.
The Democrats have learned and only run pretty boys - though there's not much they can do for their women.
How many “women” reading this tripe WERE THE ONES THAT VOTED IN THE QUEER-IN-CHARGE, AND HIS TRANSEXUAL PARTNER, MICHAEL??
If ya did, THIS IS YOUR FAULT!!!
I live alone, on a fixed income, so that makes me major domo, head cook, chief bottlewasher, sanitation supervisor, cost accountant, and personal buyer.
I, too, have seen the prices rise, and the spending dollar, shrink.
And, oh yes, quite joyously, I’m a guy.
Mondale?
Dukakis?
Algore?
Lurch?
And they all lost which further proves my larger point
I know what I want. I want a horse that should be even money going off at 3-1 and me with a winning ticket on that horse.
She should tell her readers what gracery store she goes to so all can avoid iot. What a bunch whiners, don’t these women have husbands to complain to.
By the way, I would never go up to some strange woman and start complaining about my expenses.
On the other hand is some bimbo started telling what she wanted the government to do I would just try to edge away from the poor demented creature and try not to look at her as if she was crazed.
Hear, hear!
Women, Jews, and minorities continue to elect democrats who continue to ignore them and the promises that they gave during their campaigns.
Somehow, the few that realize it and ask a question or two are instantly placated with the standard liberal answer: "Its the white guys who hate you and keep us from helping."
We have a shopping circuit that takes us to a place for good produce, a place for meat and fish and then to the Walmart for all the canned stuff. Last month I was giving my truck a good cleaning and found a Walmart receipt for soups, coffee, pasta, yogurt, eggs and some other things. The total was $68.87.It was from last September.
I took that receipt to Walmart and bought the same exact stuff on July 8 and the total was $80.93. I can't tell if things I bought back in Sept were on sale, or anything -but, that's almost 20% increase in less than a year.
I'm glad I don't have a house full of kids.
I’m agreeing with you, an it was an obvious knee jerk.
But you get the drift.
Thanks.
I definitely get the drift; when you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always have the support of Paul.
Then, too, and this ought make me downright popular with the fairer sex, women are more easily swayed by slogans which appeal to their emotions more than their minds, e.g., "war on women", "my body, my choice", and the like.
I’d submit women vote for Democrats because they want the same affirmative action unassimilated minorities are granted; I work with many women who wouldn’t have jobs but for companies’ fear of lawsuits. They want men’s pay, but they want to come in later, take longer lunches, and leave earlier.
They play the gender card in the same manner as others play the race card; it is just as despicable, and just as strong an acknowledgment that they can’t (or won’t) play on a level playing field.
“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.”
Bravo!
This is yet another male-bashing feminazism -only women pay bills, care for children, no mention of the husband/father, women are implied then to be Spartan men, blah, blah, blah.
“Then, too, and this ought make me downright popular with the fairer sex, women are more easily swayed by slogans which appeal to their emotions more than their minds, e.g., “war on women”, “my body, my choice”, and the like.”
Stupid illogical bimbos. These are also the majority of teachers influencing children. Each generation is getting dumber.
Women voted for exactly what they got.
Women put Obama in the White House.
They wanted free stuff and to be taken care of.
So Obama spent their future to give it to them now.
The future is here.
You idiot. You can't control the economy. Do your constitutional duty. End the Fed and it's inflation machine. Stop spending then stop taxing. And for God's sake, stop pandering, it's ugly.
For your information I never voted for a rat and never will. Stop blaming women for everything you chauvinistic pig
BTTT
Well, I think we have the problem there in a nutshell. Quit thinking that the government has the power to change your life. That isn't what government is for!
Instead of piling up more and more programs to do what existing programs already redundantly do, burdening us with yet more bureaucracy and administrative costs, how about evaluating the programs that already exist for efficiency? Work on streamlining, eliminating, and combining them as needed to get rid of all the inefficient bloat. Same thing with the legal code. Isn't there an entire Department of Education that has absolutely nothing to show for its existence that can be eliminated?
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