For Immediate Release
Saturday, July 23, 2011
GOP Leaders “End Charade,” Prove Only Interest Is to “Coddle Corporate Jet Owners While Sticking It to Everyone Else”
Statement of AFSCME Pres. McEntee in response to Republican leaders in Congress abdicating their responsibilities and demanding that working middle class Americans sacrifice even more to pay for the mistakes of Wall Street bankers
Washington, DC —"If Washington refuses to focus on jobs, the least GOP leaders can do is come to the table and find solutions to the debt that force the people who caused this economic mess to do their fair share. Apparently, Republican leaders have decided to end the charade; they can't meet even this low leadership bar.
"Teachers, nurses and fire fighters did not cause the economic meltdown. Seniors, school children and the poor did not gamble our economic prosperity away. We have a revenue problem in this country, not a spending problem. Yet Republican leaders have decided it's more important to coddle corporate jet owners while sticking it even more to everyone else."
