Dear Editor:
The president and Congress are killing jobs and shrinking the middle class while the headline news show 5.0 percent unemployment, the labor participation is near a 40-year low of 62.5 percent.
Currently, millions of Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Contrary to the good intentions over the years, the data shows that the middle class is shrinking and poverty is increasing
How can poverty be rising in America, with abundant resources, the best technology, and a great workforce? America also has a strong education system, with more foreign students than American students studying abroad.
And yet, we have competition issues. More businesses are closing than being created, dwindling the best source for job creation. Good-paying jobs in the goods-producing industries are becoming fewer, with jobs in manufacturing paying about 21 percent more than the overall private sector average.
Communities and states work hard through economic development programs to facilitate job creation. However, in Washington they do the exact opposite by killing jobs through costly regulations and unfair trade agreements, making US businesses less competitive in the global markets.
They pass trade legislation that is not fair and costs jobs. The president denies construction of the Keystone pipeline which would be safer, cheaper and more secure. Instead, we now move the oil by rail and tanker car through cities during this time of rising terrorism.
If the president gets his way at the Paris Climate Change Conference in December, the impact on energy costs could add an even greater burden with higher utility rates on the poor and middle class. For industry it will mean fewer jobs, with many going to China or other more competitive locations. An agreement earlier this year with China on Climate Change allows China to increase their carbon emissions into 2030 and requires us to reduce ours by another 28 percent by 2025.
Climate change considerations are important but all agreements need to be fair and reasonable compared to the rest of the world. Our jobs and the middle class should be first and the agreement fair and reasonable. Further our carbon emissions are now near 27-year lows - "more than any other nation on Earth." Continuing on this path of insanity will reduce good-paying jobs, opportunity, increase poverty and further shrink our middle class. Let us put America first and back to work again.
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