Political Quotes

“Last year thousands of workers in my community got a major slap in the face when their employer told them their jobs would be moved to another part of the country. If that was not bad enough, these loyal employees had salt rubbed in their wounds a short time later when they learned that their own Federal tax dollars would be used to help move their jobs elsewhere. Nearly a quarter of a million dollars in Community Development Block Grant money would be used to help the company they worked for expand a plant and move the jobs to another State. Earlier this year, we learned that another company would be relocating its production facility to another State. At that time, it was announced that $500,000 in CDBG funds would be used as part of the incentive package which lured the company to move these jobs. These actions are dead wrong. The CDBG Program is designed to Foster Community and Economic Development, not to help move jobs around the country.”