112 - Day 3 - Killing construction jobs Republican style

So whats has united the Associated General Contractors of America,the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Trucking Association, the Ironworkers,and the Laborers International Union?

One of the not emphasized rule changes the GOP brought to the Congress this week.

In a move that will potentially cause further destabilization in the buiding trades sector and decimate the already struggling workforce, the GOP have made a job-killing proposal that reneges on a commitment made by Republican in 1998 led by then Republican Congressman Bud Shuster.

The new rules package reverses a policy in effect for over a decade that required that all revenues paid into the Highway Trust Fund be used for eligible highway and transit projects. Enacted in 1998 by Republican Rep. Bud Shuster, this rule provided the kind of certainty and stability that the industry and state and local governments need to plan long-term major infrastructure projects.

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Already facing Depression era unemployment, the Republicans throw a curve ball of uncertainty into the industry in a blatant display of political posturing.

After all, we already know after just two days, they are willing to break their own new rules and the Constitution to suit their political purposes.


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Now, they inject more uncertainty into an already uncertain industry, which will lead to the killing of more jobs for working class Americans.

So here we are Day 3, and instead of working to bring jobs back to America, the Tan Man and his cohorts are working to place the killing blows on an already ailing industry in the name of their backwards approach, or downright disregard to fiscal responsibility and the American working class.