Earl Blumenauer: “Well, I could not agree more, with the spiraling deficit, more tax cuts for people who are already well off, the refusal…”

“Well, I could not agree more, with the spiraling deficit, more tax cuts for people who are already well off, the refusal of the President and the Republican leadership to fund the No Child Left Behind initiative, or ignoring the promises of candidate Bush to enhance Pell Grants, along with a refusal to tap unemployment insurance funds to help the long-term unemployed. Americans understand that numbers alone do not give the full picture about the economy. But what I find, meeting with the long-term unemployed in my community, they are looking at misplaced priorities and broken promises; and they, like most Americans, do not like what they see.”