By Larry Killion Tea Party Patriot Citizen
Journalist
Washington State
constituents hear from Senator, Patty Murray. While the Senate was in recess, she traveled
around the State gathering stories to use in support of her progressive
agenda. High on her list is getting
funds for educating the workforce. She
says there are 52,000 jobs in our State that are vacant because nobody has the
skills to do them. (?) She says she is working hard to fix that and
now that she is the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, she will be right
in the middle of the decision making for spending our tax dollars. ($!) Remember,
we have gotten along for the past several years without the Senate passing a
budget. There is no need to balance what
you do not have. Isn’t that right? According to Murray,
her new role as Chairman of the Budget Committee will not be to just deal with
the deficit. Oh no, her task is to take
the stories she has heard back to D.C. and use them to fight for increased
investments. (?$!!!) Yes, that translates into more taxes and less
cuts in spending.
Another item high on Murray’s
agenda is Comprehensive
Immigration Reform. To the liberal
way of thinking, this is not taking jobs away from US citizens and giving them
to amnestied illegal aliens. It is an
overlooking of the letter of the law in order to make certain people feel and
fare better. While home on recess, Murray
arranged some roundtable meetings with local immigration reform advocates and
garnered some more stories to use in D.C.
Murray said it is not the
reports, stats and data, which motivate her on this issue. What moves her is not the facts, but
heartbreaking stories about “dreamers” who cannot go to college, families who
are torn apart, and small businesses that are held back from success by a
system that does not work for them. Murray
believes that after the November election, it is clear to all of us, including
congress, that it is time to move forward and ensure the benefits of
“opportunity and inclusion” equally to all in our country.
One thing that Senator Murray always mentions is her efforts
to support our veterans. This has been
the bread and butter of her political career.
No matter what else is going on locally, nationally or internationally,
this plank has held her up in all her campaigns. Naturally, while home on recess she arranged
to attend another “roundtable” event and talked about training and job placement
opportunities for veterans. Murray
is no longer the Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee but she vowed to
continue helping veterans by funneling funds for them via the Senate Budget
Committee. ($!) She wants to work for more benefits for vets
and those that hire them.
The last thing mentioned in the Senator’s Newsletter was her
attendance at the luncheon for the Columbia
River Economic Development Council. Why this?
Because it is the “single largest investment we can make in this
region’s economic development”. ($) It was a free lunch and hog heaven for big
government tax and spenders. Overall,
there was not a solitary sympathetic line in the Senator’s Newsletter
concerning constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, or free
markets.
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