Special Message from the office of Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz..
At the beginning of the 111th Congress, we faced the most serious economic and financial crisis of any since the Great Depression. Fear was widespread and confidence was scarce. Our economy was in free fall with no apparent limit on how much worse things could get.
Yet, we have traveled a remarkable distance over the past several months in pulling our economy back from the brink of economic catastrophe. The wide-ranging efforts taken by the Democrat-led Congress – implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, restoring confidence in the financial system, providing assistance for responsible homeowners and pressing to get credit flowing to small businesses – have helped pull the economy out of a collapse, and have put us on a path toward a sustained economic recovery. While we still have a long way go, we are far closer to that recovery today than we were in January, 2009.
In our own state of Florida, as much as $13.4 billion in federal stimulus dollars will be pumped into the economy over three years. With this investment, close to 206,000 sorely needed new jobs will be created in Florida. The plan also provides tax cuts of up to $1,000 to 6,458,000 Florida’s families and more than $20 billion for American businesses to spur job creation.
While avoiding catastrophe and restoring a sound macroeconomic policy framework are necessary for the confidence on which economic recovery depends, they are not sufficient. In order to avoid the boom-and-bust cycle of the past several years, our economy must be rebuilt on firmer foundations. Job creation, an investment in renewable energy and a reform of our broken health care system are long term solutions that will lay the groundwork for a new foundation for our economy for years to come.
Input from concerned constituents like you is essential to my work in Congress, and I hope that you will continue to inform me of your ideas and opinions. Your input is invaluable as we work to shape national policies to reflect the views of Florida’s 20th District. To keep abreast of my work, visit my website at wassermanschultz.house.gov to sign up for my periodic newsletter.
Laurie Flink
Deputy District Director
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Phone: 305-936-5724
If you would like to request a meeting with Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz, please visit: http://wassermanschultz.house.gov/scheduling
On December 3,the President held a major forum on job creation in Washington, with a trip to Allentown, PA to get an even better sense of what is happening on the ground.
Community Jobs Forums like this are part of the effort, asking Americans all across the country the country to take stock of what's working and what's not, what the opportunities and obstacles are to job creation in their communities. This is what you are here to do.
The Wilte House will be reading through our feedback and working it into an official report for the President at the end of the process later in December, and they'll also be responding to what they hear on their website.
Here are the questions to be discussed at Today's Community Jobs Forum...
1. From what you have seen, or seen reported about the President’s Jobs Forum on December 3rd, what seems relevant to your community?
2. What parts of your local economy are working or thriving? What businesses and sectors are expanding and hiring?
3. What parts of your local economy are not working or thriving? What businesses and sectors have been hit the hardest? What are people struggling with the most?
4. What are the opportunities for growth in your community? What businesses and sectors seem poised to rebound? What do you see as the “jobs of the future”?
5. What are the obstacles to job creation in your community? What could make local businesses more likely to start hiring?
6. What other issues and ideas should the President consider? Post your comments now, or join us Live at 7pm Eastern Time.
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