Letter to the Editor: Vote for Roskam this November
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To the editor:
The great American job creation machine is stalled. The headline 8.1 percent unemployment rate, which is “adjusted”, understates the un-adjusted 15 percent U6 unemployment rate. To get Americans working again, we need to send people like Peter Roskam to Washington. He understands that over-regulation by the Federal government is restraining job growth.
Peter Roskam voted for the Red Tape Reduction Act, to help small businesses reduce burdensome regulatory compliance. He is an influential member of the House Ways and Means Committee, responsible for tax reform to help small and large companies become more globally competitive. He knows business owners like me are hesitant to hire when the Federal Government is constantly writing and changing the rules of engagement.
Regulatory compliance costs businesses over $1.7 trillion per year, and it continues to rise. Unelected bureaucrats are determining the winners and losers in the competition for capital as new rules take place across a swath of industries that encompass 70 percent of our economy, including energy, healthcare, financial services, utilities and various industrial companies. Dodd Frank Financial reform required 398 rulemaking deadlines for which 70 percent have yet to be written. How do you hire anyone when you do not know what the rules are?
Peter Roskam understands that to get people to work, businesses have to invest.To get businesses to invest, you have to remove the paralyzing uncertainty associated with Washington interference.
The United States has the most productive, innovative and educated labor force in the world, capable of producing world changing products. Peter Roskam understands that to create jobs, government policy should encourage, rather than constrain, America’s small business entrepreneurs.
Please join me in voting for Congressman Peter Roskam this November.
Chris Faber
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Ray Osborn
6:42 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
So did Peter Roskam speak out against the Republican filibuster of the American Jobs Act that the Obama administration proposed last year. Independent estimates suggest that would have created 2.1 million jobs (as well as putting many unemployed teachers back to work), but the Republican Party refused to even let it come to a vote.
DG Guy
7:41 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
Wikipedia summed this up nicely "Many Democrats have balked at the bill, siding with the Republicans, especially those facing difficult re-elections in congressional districts where they are hesitant to support unpopular legislation.[49] A majority of the Democrats support individual components of the bill, but are unwilling to commit to the bill in its entirety, despite the White House's disapproval of the weak showing of support. Some Democrats from core Democratic districts oppose the American Jobs Act because it gives more tax breaks, thus contributing more to the federal deficit".
The Washington Post reported that" Despite his call for bipartisanship, White House advisers have privately acknowledged that passage of the full package is unlikely. Advisers say Obama will blame Republicans for the jobs crisis if they don’t accept his proposal."
Ray Osborn
8:44 am on Friday, September 14, 2012
The appropriate response then would be to have a debate, offer amendments, and bring it to a vote. Who knows who wrote the Wikipedia article, but many economists at the time thought it had a good chance of creating well over a million, if not two million, jobs (see http://www.gazette.com/articles/positive-124636-economists-reviews.html). Worth at least discussing - but it was not even allowed a debate on the floor because the Democrats did not have a filibuster-proof majority.
Wally Banks
10:21 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012
How can the Federal Government create 2.1M sustainable long-term jobs/careers? How can we trust arrogant private-sector flunkies in the Federal Government that have not clue how to run a business, create demand, a product/service that actually provides value people want to buy? Spending (bribing voters) and insane regulations impeding business growth and opportunity is the real problem.
Linda Schranz
7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012
"We need to send people like Roskam to congress." Are you serious? He's BEEN in congress and been one of the republican stone-waller obstructionists! Unfortunately, I don't think he'll be defeated this November. He'll just go on, voting in lockstep with other republicans in congress, without thought of what is needed by his constituents. It makes me so very sad that "bi-partisan" and "working together" have become dirty words for conservatives in Washington.
John Schofield
8:38 pm on Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Roskam: Just got a robocall to join a Roskam conference call. Queued with a question. Posed the question. Got put down and cut off without any chance to dialog. He's not open to conversation. Not voting for him.
Ray Osborn
8:24 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
He probably decided you were one of the 47% he didn't care about.