Sounds of Silence
The Washington Post estimates President Obama devoted nearly half of his third State of the Union address to the economy. But while much was said about jobs, workers, business taxes, and energy, two words were never used – the words were “jobless” and “unemployed.”
“President Obama’s rallying cry for a national commitment to re-train 2 million workers and his administration’s work to secure 135,000 jobs for our nation’s veterans should be applauded,” said UCubed Executive Director Rick Sloan. “But for 65 minutes, more than 27.3 million jobless Americans waited patiently for an answer to their one burning question, ‘Where’s a job for me, Mr. President?’ To them the silence was deafening.”
UCubed continues its call for a proven jobs plan that works and will put millions of jobless Americans to work immediately – a 21st century Works Progress Administration (WPA). “The answer millions of jobless Americans are waiting for is sitting in plain sight in our nation’s history,” said Sloan. “President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s WPA was the monument to action needed to bring this country out of the Great Depression. We did it once. Let’s do it now.”
Click here to tell the White House and Congress to enact a modern-day WPA today! And be sure to “Like” UCubed’s WPA ad campaign on Facebook.
Since Wall Street and the business community seem to be unable or unwilling to put Americans back to work, it’s up to the government to do so.