Can I just say I LOVE my Senator? AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN) on the Economy and Jobs

[Tigress DEM]

http://klobuchar.senate.gov/middleclass.cfm

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Minnesotans believe in hard work, fair play, and personal responsibility. We believe that no matter where you come from, if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams, give the gift of education to your children, and have security in your later years.

My grandpa was a miner, working 1,500 feet underground in the iron ore mines in Ely. He didn't graduate from high school, but he and my grandma saved money in a coffee can in the basement to send my dad and his brother to college. My dad went on to be a sportswriter and a newspaper columnist. My mom was a second-grade teacher who was teaching a classroom of thirty second graders at age 70. I grew up in a middle-class suburban neighborhood, and I knew I'd always have to work hard to get where I wanted to go.

In the past few decades, greed on Wall Street and government decisions that favored those at the top have made it harder and harder for families and small businesses to get ahead. As I travel throughout Minnesota, I hear too often about how the American Dream no longer seems to be within reach for many working families.

Too many hard-working Minnesotans now struggle to make ends meet - squeezed by unemployment, rising health care costs, soaring home mortgage payments, escalating gas prices, mounting bills for child care and college tuition - and, increasingly, the care of an aging loved one.

I'm committed to working for economic policies that benefit all Americans. This means having a laser focus on jobs, affordable health care, homegrown energy, and a federal budget that pays our way rather than piling up debt for future generations.

[gkhouston]

1. Minnesota is very fortunate in its Senate representation.

For the House? Not so much. I'd love to see Bachmann turned out of office.

[Tigress DEM]

2. ALSO this GRAPH on JOBS growth/loss REALLY SHOWS the BUSH TAX CUTS DESTROYED JOBS

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/is-this-why-romney-wont-t_b_1956151.html

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Amy,you have always set

yourself as a example of honesty and courage. This in a backdrop of a every changing Minnesota body Politic. From Arne Carlson to Tim Pewlenty. You never wavered,always the same progressive message,despite your fathers own newspaper beating you up on their Editorial Page. GOP governors have messed up the famous Minnesota Experiment big time.

Finally some winds of change have returned,the GOP has shot its self in the foot so many times. And,the Fundies of the South western part are losing their strangle hold of key committees,things will only improve. Notice also,as the economy improves from the GOP devastation,the growth strength starts in the upper Midwest.