A Post-Dispatch article indicated that the economic recovery in the St. Louis region would take three more years. A study by the U.S. Conference of Mayors was referenced in this article which examined the largest 363 metro areas and found that these metro areas are home to 89 percent of economic growth and 87 percent of jobs in the country and that the big metros are home to much of that. As we all know, virtually all of the largest of the metro areas vote largely democratic, since we all understand that across our country republicans predominately get their votes from rural areas and democrats get the majority of their votes from metro areas. Maybe these reported job data have something to do with the fact that since the new Congress has been in session, the republicans have voted down all three jobs bills in the Senate that the democrats have brought to the floor, and in the House, where the republicans have a large majority, the republicans have not proposed any bills having to do with jobs. I submit that the reasons that republicans are not interested in adding jobs in our economy are: 1) republicans are not interested in adding jobs in the metro areas, especially large metro areas, where 89% of the jobs now actually exist, as these added jobs would be added in areas that vote democrat, and 2) republicans are much more interested in voting their party's interests than they are in advancing the interests of our country, like adding jobs , which would aid the economic recovery from the dismal economic situation that President Obama inherited from George W. Bush, and 3) the republicans want to make sure that President Obama gets no credit for adding jobs, because they are only concerned about their interests in the next election cycle.
Paul M. Jeannot
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