Manchin... the good the bad and the ugly

by: wvblueguy

Sat Sep 17, 2011 at 13:46:11 PM EDT

President Manchin has made it perfectly clear that he does not support the "Obama Jobs Bill". As reported by Joselyn King in the Wheeling Intelligencer/News-Register

Sen. Joe Manchin says there's "good, bad and ugly" in the jobs bill proposed by President Barack Obama, and what he sees is mostly ugly. Manchin, D-W.Va., noted the tremendous cost of the Obama jobs bill - estimated at $450 billion - and the many policies set forth in the bill that already were tried unsuccessfully in the past. "I listened respectfully to the president give his speech ... on the jobs proposal," Manchin said. "I think we all can agree we need to do something about jobs in this county, but I have some serious reservations about his proposals that night in his speech.

Manchin is now an official member of the expanded Gang of Six headed up by Saxby Chambliss and our neighboring Senator Mark Warner.  You can find his name on the list of 38 by clicking here.

Taxes are now lower than ever if not non-existent for everybody, and no one want to use an increase in revenue to solve our deficit issue. Manchin has certainly done nothing to offer a workable solution to our job crisis.

Manchin also questioned the $50 billion to extend unemployment benefits under the plan, and wonders if government funds wouldn't be better spent training the workforce for jobs.

"I know right now we could hire in West Virginia - for good mining jobs - about 700 people," he said. "I talked to another person with a repair shop - he said he could hire 25.

"So for all those people who have expended all their extensions for unemployment - if we're going to continue an unemployment compensation - it should be done in the most compassionate way to make sure we are training for the jobs in West Virginia. If we don't do that, then we haven't done any good for anybody," he said.

Hey Joe... if there are 725 unfilled jobs in West Virginia do something to help fill those jobs if they indeed exist.  

He needs to either be a Democrat or a Republican his so called bi-partisan approach to the right wing is unbearable, and it is pretty obvious no one is available to primary him.