Two voices speak out on need for jobs…
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by crowley in Blog, General
The Oregonian Editorial Board wrote on January 25th about ‘Obama’s plan to aid the middle class:’
When President Barack Obama addresses the nation Wednesday night, he will drag to the lectern rock-heavy bags from a trying first year: an economy at the edge of collapse, stepped up war deployments and metastatic joblessness. All of it big, all of it morphing with each passing week, all of it occurring at stratospherically expensive levels as Oregonians struggle to pay their rent or mortgage and feed the family.
His announcement Monday that he would … aim his best efforts at removing economic pain from the middle class is good news to us, indeed. Exactly how he will do that is just emerging, and we hope to hear in his State of the Union address that measures designed to make life easier for middle-income workers will be swift and without corollary damage to the untargeted.
-Oregonian, January 25, 2010
In Harney County Oregon, where our Greater Echanis wind projects are located, the pain of this recession is acute. Here’s what one person wrote in a letter to the Editor of the January 20th Burns Times Herald:
“A voice needs to be heard! A helping hand needs to be extended to the hardworking men and women who break their backs every day just to try and survive! Proud Americans are struggling to make ends meet. One paycheck doesn’t make it to the next. (…) The people sitting in their big comfy chairs on Capitol Hill need to take a step down and spend a month in the shoes of a struggling middle class citizen. Maybe then they will understand how hard it is to make it from paycheck to paycheck. Maybe they will see the real hardships people are facing every day.”
- Letter to the editor of Burns Times Herald, January 20, 2010
CEP hopes the President will renew his pledge to rebuild America’s economy on the strength of renewable energy projects and infrastructure, which produce jobs in fragile communities like Harney County that cannot be exported, produce many other long term benefits and will help reverse global climate change. Our Greater Echanis Projects are ready to be part of that effort – now!
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