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On jobs, Senate rivals reflect the two-party split

For more than a year, the Massachusetts Senate candidates have fought over their backgrounds, their stances on abortion, and tax policy. But throughout, both have insisted that unemployment and a state jobless rate that now sits at 6.5 percent are their top priorities.

Elizabeth Warren says that investments in roads, bridges, school construction, and other public works will stimulate businesses to hire people. Senator Scott Brown says that keeping tax rates low and regulations predictable will give business owners confidence to expand and add workers.

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Glad to see that the Brown/Warren campaign has gone on long enough that Scott Brown’s claim of bipartisanship has been exposed as misleading. Look at his voting record to see that he is a Republican who only votes with the Democrats to look bipartisan when his vote does not make a difference.

 

Brown joined his right-wing Republican colleagues to filibuster and kill the American Jobs Act, the Rebuild America Jobs Act, and the Teachers & First Responders Back to Work Act. Those three bills that Brown voted to kill amounted to an estimated 33,000 jobs for Massachusetts. Scott Brown votes with Republicans against ending tax subsidies for oil industry. Before the financial reform bill was passed, Brown worked to water down a key regulation that would limit high-risk investing by banks. Brown voted against that bill, holding middle class tax cuts hostage in order to score extended tax cuts for the highest income earners.

 

Elizabeth Warren has already stood up for the voters. She created the Consumer Financial Protection Bill. She will vote for education and education jobs, construction jobs and research--all helping the middle class.

 

 

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Apology. Sentence missing above. Insert before: Brown voted against that bill,

this sentence: Brown had the chance to vote on a bill that would protect middle class tax cuts

It is the private sector's role to create almost all our jobs and this is a central plank of Elizabeth Warren's campaign.  The government's role is to relieve undue suffering casused by uncalled for misplays by bad actors, namely some of the too large components of the financial and banking industry.  She does not want more regulation but pinpoint regs that make banks banks and investment houses just that.  Attention to infrasturcture had been put off because of the lost revenue engendered by garbage spending during the Bush administration, inappropriate tax cuts, and 2 wars on the dime.  This has to be reversed.  Critical investments in education will also bring out valuable talent to create new businesses and generally improve our lives.  Granted it takes time but the payoff is big.  Think GI Bill.  It should not take special incentives for sideline sunshine patriot so called entrepreneurs sitting on loads of cash to want to right this country.  They are sitting on 1.5 trillion dollars because they want instant payback deserved or not.  Investing the money in American workers does not change their daily lives even if some of it does not work out.  It does improve their image with the American people.  It is Elizabeth Warren who wants to see business owners thrive but not at the expense of degrading people's lifestyles because of poor wages and benefits.  The economic pie itself should grow.  Workers who have shown their worth as wealth producers and entrepreneurs who have taken the risk should be compensated accordingly in a positive sum manner. Current Republicans, Scott Brown included, like the zero sum game where wages are low, taxes are low, and profits soar at a ration of 500 to 1, employer to employee.  If this is allowed to happen again by voting in Republicans with such a governing philosophy we will be back in the soup.  Many economists studying the Great Depression agree that cutting off government help too soon prolonged the downturn and made debt repayment much more difficult.  Scott Brown wants us to repeat those mistakes.  The Senator must know it because his ads are now making up stuff about himself and his opponent.  He had done nothing to defend his untenable positions.  

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This text is unreadable......Prof. Warren might give you a C+ for content and a D- for Grammer....

Obama's jobs plan sounds familiar. It was called the stimulus. How did that work out? This investment strategy is nothing new. We've done this before.