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State Representative Paul Thissen
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-5375
For more information contact: Carrie Lucking 651-296-4169
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LAYING WASTE TO THE JOB CREATION FOUNDATION Statement from Minority Leader Paul Thissen on House Pink Slip Bill
Here’s the headline of the day, the week, the session: A Republican majority who said it was focused on jobs is today laying off thousands of Minnesotans from good middle class jobs.
Last week, the House Higher Ed budget put 1,200 employees at Minnesota’s colleges and universities on notice - their good-paying middle class job is at risk. The tax bill will slash another 1,700 jobs in counties and cities across Minnesota. And all week we’re going to see bills that slash public and private sector jobs.
With this bill, the Republican Majority not only hands out an additional 754 pink slips, but also slashes support for private sector job creation.
Slicing and dicing the Office of Trade – are you kidding me? Who on the other side of the aisle decided that companies across Minnesota do NOT need to compete in a global economy?
Cutting the Science and Technology Authority - an organization that has already created over 2,000 high paying, private sector jobs - is embarrassing. Between this cut, the cuts in the BioBusiness Alliance, and the misguided stem cell ban, the GOP is cutting the legs and new jobs out from one of Minnesota’s strongest growing industries. A loss of literally hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
And as the GOP is adding to the unemployment rolls, the cuts in this bill will make it virtually impossible for unemployed workers to get re-trained, build new high tech skills, or find new jobs. Apparently the GOP isn’t satisfied enough with layoffs, they also make it more difficult for those workers to get a new job, rubbing salt in the unemployment wound.
As my good colleague Rep. Mahoney said, government doesn’t create jobs, but it can lay the foundation for job creation – unless the Republicans are in charge. This pink slip bill lays waste to the job creation foundation in irreparable ways.
News Items
- DFL Leaders Eager to Confront Minnesota’s Challenges with Focus on Economy and Middle Class - (Posted: Jan 9 2013 2:21PM)
- State Representative John Persell appointed Majority Whip - (Posted: Dec 21 2012 1:11PM)
- Speaker-designate Thissen to Establish Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs - (Posted: 2012-12-19 00:00:00)
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