In January 2007, when Democrats took control of Congress, the unemployment rate was 4.6% and the national debt was $8.6 trillion. Today unemployment is 9.5% and the nation is nearing $14 trillion in debt. The only thing that changed when Ann Kirkpatrick was elected in November 2008 is that the Democrats economic agenda went from bad to worse. Three stimulus bills and trillions of dollars later, what do taxpayers have to show for it? Kirkpatrick and her Democrat colleagues economics has failed miserably and it’s time for everybody in this town to admit it so we can move on.
On Thursday, 05 August 2010 Kirkpatrick said: “Our country is heading towards a disastrous fiscal crisis. Everyone seems to understand that except the federal government – which has failed again and again to take common-sense steps to get us back on course.”
Just a mere five days later, Tuesday,10 August 2010, Kirkpatrick returned to DC and along with House Democrats pushed through an enactment of a $26 billion “jobs bill” carefully tailored to please public-sector unions especially those representing teachers.
Didn’t Ann Kirkpatrick tell us that the previous $862 billion stimulus plan was suppose to save the teacher, police and fireman jobs? So instead of scheduling town hall meetings and listening to constituents, Kirkpatrick continues to vote on spending even more of tax payers money. Kirkpatrick and her Democrat colleagues economics has failed miserably and it’s time for everybody in this town to admit it so we can move on.
Why does Ann Kirkpatrick not want to meet with constitutents and laud the $862 Billion stimulus she voted for to keep unemployment under eight percent or to laud the Democrat health care takeover that the majority of Arizonans did not support or to laud the Federal government’s law suit against Arizona’s immigration law that the majority of Arizonans support? Kirkpatrick and her colleagues have tauted this to be the summer of recovery. Why then is Ann Kirkpatrick dodging District 1 constitutents?
District 1 constitutents should not listen to what Kirkpatrick says but watch how Ann Kirkpatrick votes. In this re-election year, Ann Kirkpatrick tries to speak like a conservative but votes as a leftist.
Oh say, has anyone seen District 1 Representative Ann Kirkpatrick?
Debbie Dahma,Congressional District 1 AZ Independent Voter
I’d like to remind Debbie that the nation was enjoying a budget surplus in 2000, when the Bush administration took over. Then the national debt ballooned through the fall of 2008, when the country had a precipitous economic meltdown. Two wars, tax cuts to the rich, an attitude of “anything goes” in the banking sector and fraudulent mortgage rates, led to Bush’s first tarp bailout of $700 billion under Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson. Ann Kirkpatrick was NOT in office. Our congressional representataive was Rick Renzi.
The new administration assumed office in January 2009 and began to put in place solutions that would stem the hemorrhaging national budget. A break down of the current magnitude cannot be cured in 20 months. It cannot be cured with deviseness and acrimony. If we truly want our nation to succeed, we all need to cooperate and work together to contribute to the reconstruction of our economic recovery.
E. Rowland