Now That The Dust Has Settled.

The President's State of The Union address is now history and he and the democrats in congress should push hard to pass the minimum wage increase that is long over due.  The time for talk is over, what is needed is legislation to make it a reality.  The democratic controlled senate can act first and then challenge the republican controlled house and the tea party bullies.

At the same time the President should push the U.S. House to take up the jobs bill of rebuilding the nations infrastructure that was passed by the Senate over two years ago and has been idle in the House.  The President should use public appeal to do so and have Boehner get off his hands and go to work.  That bill is fully funded and would create more jobs than any thing else that has been talked about including the pipe line from Canada to the gulf coast. 

What we are talking about is a two year period that the U.S. House has let lapse since the Senate sent them the jobs bill and over a one year lapse for both houses of congress concerning the minimum wage that Obama proposed in his 2013 State of The Union message.  That is totally unacceptable, especially when the country is still working its way out of the second great republican depression of 2008.

The President has to push congress on these two issues every day until it forces them to act.  Creating jobs and increasing the minimum wage will put money in the people's pocket and the economy immediately.  It will increase federal revenue and tax collection and would lead to a stronger economy.  The federal deficit at the end of George W. Bush's last fiscal year was $1.42 trillion.  It was $600 plus billion at the end of fiscal year 9/30/13, a decrease of over 50% and the Office of Management and Budget in a recent report says this fiscal year that ends 9/30/14 the federal deficit will be around $500 billion. 

So progress has been made on lowering the deficit during that time period.  A booming economy and job creation will return the country to a balanced budget in a short period of time because there is no rampant federal spending on Obama's watch.  And once again it is "politidose" who is at the fore front on reporting the facts.