I'm Warrens Buffet's Secretary

72% of Americans want those making over 250,000 dollars a year to pay a higher rate in taxes than they currently pay. The top 2% are paying the lowest tax rate in 50 years, its way past time to change that. The republicans keep up the same old tired lie, "don't tax the job creators". We haven't been taxing the job creators for 10 years, there are no jobs and we are deeply in debt. If low taxes stimulated job growth, then we should be swimming in jobs. If the private sector can't generate job growth then the government must. The wealthy should be paying the same rate as average American's, and the additional revenue will pay for the jobs bill. The next time a republican says "we can't tax the job creators" please slap them and remind them that getting slapped for stupidity is much easier to bear than 18 months without a job.

It’s Not Class Warfare; It’s Math (contact your senators and congressperson to act on jobs here)

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President Obama asks citizens to stand with him and demand Congress take action on jobs

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From Barack Obama

Today I asked for a joint session of Congress where I will lay out a clear plan to get Americans back to work. Next week, I will deliver the details of the plan and call on lawmakers to pass it.  Whether they will do the job they were elected to do is ultimately up to them.  But both you and I can pressure them to do the right thing. We can send the message that the American people are playing by the rules and meeting their responsibilities—and it's time for our leaders in Congress to meet theirs.  And we must hold them accountable if they don't.
So I'm asking you to stand with me in calling on Congress to step up and take action on jobs.  No matter how things go in the weeks and months ahead, this will be an important challenge for our organization.  It's been a long time since Congress was focused on what the American people need them to be focused on.  I know that you're frustrated by that. I am, too.
That's why I'm putting forward a set of bipartisan proposals to help grow the economy and create jobs—that means strengthening our small businesses, giving needed breaks to middle-class families, while taking responsible steps to bring down our deficit.  I'm asking lawmakers to look past short-term politics and take action on that plan. But we've got to do this together.  I will deliver this message to Congress next week, but I'm asking you to stand alongside me today.

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Tell the President, your Senators and your congressperson to create jobs now

From RootsAction.org

This year's State of the Union address was only the second since 1948 by a Democratic president that did not mention poverty or the poor. And the President and Congress haven't promoted a bold jobs program.

"When the banks had a national emergency, they bailed them out and they found $700 billion," said Cornel West, during a 9-state Poverty Tour with Tavis Smiley. “When we go to war, we find $1.3 trillion. When the poor and working classes are living in a state of emergency, it's a matter of national security, especially the children. We have 21 percent of our precious children of all colors living in poverty. That's morally obscene in the richest country in the history of the world."

It's also illegal, say experts. They point out that the federal government is required by law to create jobs.  The Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, the Federal Reserve Act, and international law require it.  A bill now in the House, H.R. 870, would fund job creation as required by Humphrey-Hawkins.  If this is not passed, the President legally must instruct the Fed to fund job creation.
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The Republican Jobs Fairy

The rarely seen republican "jobs fairy".  This is the only known photograph of this illusory creature.
Don't tax the "job creators" is the republican cry.  "If you tax the "job creators" the jobs fairy won't come in the night and place jobs under the pillows of the unemployed all across America."   For the last 10 years we haven't been taxing the "job creators" and every day millions of unemployed across our country have been waking up and first thing they do, is check under their pillow, in the papers, on the web, on the street, in stores for a job.   Unbeknownst, to the republicans the 'Jobs Fairy', found flying around the country much too difficult and tiring.  He folded up his wings and got a job as a radio personality and changed his name to Rush.