Virginia has much to embarrass the state on the national stage, not the least of which are local nutcase and bigot, Pat Robertson, and of course the theocratic loons at Liberty University and Liberty Counsel in Lynchburg. Then in the political realm we have Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell and Ken "Kookinelli" Cuccinelli. Currently drawing the most attention, however, is Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor, who continues to lick the boots of the Tea Party and the Christofascists of the GOP base who likely despise the man because he's Jewish yet put up with him for now since he's acting as their water carrier in his self-absorbed quest for power. What is really ass backwards is the fact that (1) Cantor will invest money in Iraq where it's like flushing money down a toilet but not here in the USA, and (2) Virginia is one of the largest recipients of federal government spending which means that if Cantor succeeds in slashing spending Virginians will be among the hardest hit. I suspect most whores have more integrity than Cantor. Thing Progress looks at Cantor's willingness to squander money overseas but not invest in America:Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) voted for over $120 billion to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, funds that were used to construct and repair schools, roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure.
Now,Cantor is opposing President Obama’s proposal to spend $30 billion to modernize 35,000 American schools. Reuters has the story: U.S. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor said on Monday he will not support President Barack Obama’s proposal to renovate U.S. schools as part of the administration’s bill to spur job growth. He added that Obama should focus instead on cutting federal regulations . . .
Construction and building projects generally create about 10,000 jobs per billion spent. At a time of high unemployment, the funding that Cantor opposes would create about 300,000 jobs. Economist Jared Berstein explains that funding to modernize schools is “a smart way to get a lot of people who really need jobs back to work, fix a critical part of our institutional infrastructure, save energy costs, provide kids with a better, healthier learning environment, and do so in way that everyone can see and feel good about each morning when they drop their kids at school.”
Contact your member of Congress HERE and tell them that it is time to rebuild America now rather than foreign nations.
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Most recently, Eric Cantor appeared at the so-called Values Voter Summit in front of the banner of the Liberty Counsel, an organization has never knowingly hired a Jew! You are right on!
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