Ribble: Kagen says “Enough is enough. We must live within our means” So why doesn’t he vote that way?
For Immediate Release
February 10, 2010
Contact: Kerry Niemcek
920-257-9746
Congressman Steve Kagen issued a puzzling guest editorial in the Green Bay Press Gazette this morning, claiming to support Washington’s efforts to “rebuild our economy and grow the jobs we need to work our way through today’s recession.”
What?
Kagen has continually voted against job growth and measures to rebuild the economy since he took office in 2007. In fact, he also claims in the column that he has “voted against every single bailout that came along.”
Okay, Congressman. We have heard that Washington is an “echo chamber” and that members need to come back to their districts and get back in touch with reality. So here’s a brief reminder of what you’ve really done in four years:
- Voted to bail out the automobile industry with the TARP funding (Roll Call 26 on HR 384: Kagen voted yes)
- Voted for cap and trade, a measure that is widely acknowledged to cost $4.8 trillion in lost Gross Domestic Product over the next twenty years (Kagen voted yes);
- Voted for the “stimulus” bill, which cost almost a trillion dollars and “created or saved” much-less-than expected results (Kagen voted yes);
- Allegedly “wrote” and voted for the health insurance reform bill, which will cost more than $1 trillion (Kagen voted yes);
- Voted – just last week — to increase our debt ceiling to $14.1 trillion (Kagen voted yes); and
- He spent the most money on his office budget than any other in Washington (Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/presscenter/releases/2009/12/02/sunlight-makes-congressional-expenditures-db/)
Congressman Kagen is seriously out of touch with his voters. Does he really think that we’d believe he’s fiscally responsible?
