{"id":9542,"date":"2015-03-16T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9542"},"modified":"2015-03-16T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:03:06","slug":"letter-toomey-is-blocking-job-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9542","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Toomey is blocking job creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>To the editor:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1069470\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1\" width=\"140\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>Our state has a proud history as a center of manufacturing.\u00a0 Of course the economy evolves, but we have also sustained self-inflicted damage.\u00a0 US taxpayers have been paying to encourage corporations to outsource their production and even to move their headquarters abroad. What sense does that make (except to the corporations, of course)?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I recall a few years ago, IBM fired a lot of workers and then offered to find them jobs&#8230; in India, at prevailing Indian wages.\u00a0 Not helpful.\u00a0 That&#8217;s like Wal-Mart advising its employees to see public relief to feed their families.<!--more--><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For years, Congress has been considering bills to give companies incentive to hire in the US, reduce the outflow of capital, and train American workers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And what does the former head of the lobby group Club for Growth, now the junior senator from PA, have to say?\u00a0 Wrong question; what has he<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0done<\/span>?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Answer: Sen. Pat Toomey has been part of a filibuster against the Bring Jobs Home Act: he voted in 2012 and 2014 against allowing a vote on the bill.\u00a0 If he gets the chance, he will doubtless do the same in 2016, which I hope will be his last chance, as he faces the voters again in November, 2016.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That bill would have helped American manufacturing and workers by cutting off tax deductions for US companies&#8217; expenses moving operations out of the country, and would have given companies a tax credit for bringing jobs back to the US. Fine with me!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Toomey has also voted to deny the Small Business Administration funding to help manufacturers receive or borrow capital and purchase equipment. He also voted to defund Veterans Business Outreach Centers, Women&#8217;s Business Centers, and other programs to help and train American workers, including with technical education.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You just get the impression he doesn&#8217;t like working people, don&#8217;t you?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The other day I heard Admiral Joe Sestak speak in Coatesville, in front of the Lukens steel factory, where<\/span>\u00a0his grandfather worked as a new American.\u00a0 He gets it about encouraging manufacturing jobs and training Americans.\u00a0 &#8220;I want to be held accountable,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hold Sen. Toomey accountable too, the sooner the better!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Nathaniel Smith<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>West Chester<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the editor: Our state has a proud history as a center of manufacturing.\u00a0 Of course the economy evolves, but we have also sustained self-inflicted damage.\u00a0 US taxpayers have been paying to encourage corporations to outsource their production and even to move their headquarters abroad. What sense does that make (except to the corporations, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[5562,5561,5563,5560],"class_list":["post-9542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-letters","tag-jobs","tag-joe-sestak","tag-manufacturing","tag-pat-toomey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9543,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions\/9543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}