U.S. House of Representatives stimulus bill fails to address long-term problems.
Candy Neville, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in the May primary election, says the economic stimulus bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives fails to sufficiently address long-term problems with the U.S. economy. "It's really no more than alms. The amount of money it puts into the hands of U.S. consumers is less than the price of dinner and a fund-raising speech by Karl Rove," said Neville, a real estate broker from Eugene. "I'm in favor of any stimulus package that allows the economically suffering to limp along, but this package is no more than that. It has no long-term implications."
Neville said she hopes the Senate restores the additional unemployment and food stamp benefits that the House eliminated from its stimulus legislation. "Both programs acknowledge the basic need and dignity of providing food for their families, without having to choose between electricity and bread." The Republicans did agree to give tax credits, which would temporarily spur spending and put the money back into the system. Neille says, "That's a good thing, but also extending unemployment benefits and food stamps would do the same, but without a dramatic end date."
Neville says the Iraq War is a gaping hole in the nation's economic bucket, "It's the war that drains the economhy." Until it is ended, she says Congress should focus on long-term solutions, in particular major new public-works programs that help individual states and workers. She proposes infrastructure legislation similar in scope to Tennessee Valley Authority act of 1933, which dealt with fundamental eergy resource issues. "We need to fully integrate our environmetal expertise and needs. There is a lot we could accomplish, and we definitely have the labor pool available to do it. It's a win-win-win: environment-economy-labor."
Neville says Congress should also approve new funding to increase the pace of thinning in public forests, a move that would help rural communities, reduce the risk of wildfires and provide a boost for Oregon's fast-emerging bio-fuels industry. "We have real problems. We need real solutions."
Approved by Candy Neville for U.S. Senate I support a brave new and profitable attitude.
Candy Neville, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in the May primary election, says the BLM's plans to harvest 30% more timber, clear cut and forgo environmental testing to a vast degree, undercuts long-term sustainable income for those born and bred into the logging industry, harms tourism and health by violating the eco-system.
"Such a plan causes a false and temporary increase in logging, breeds short-term loggers to meet the temporary increased demand, and then all too soon leaves the genuine loggers scrapping for long-term sustainable income. This greatly benefits "cut and run" investors who are always looking for the next quick profit, but does nothing for the genuine loggers, long-term economy and tourist industry in the state of Oregon."
Neville further states that the tourist industry is too often overlooked and under-appreciated in Oregon. "Timber is clear-cut close and closet to the roads, greatly marring the scenic beauty and tourism draw. The endangered species are virtually ignored. The soil is destabilized and we see more and more landslides, the clean up of which is not paid for by the industry that causes them."
"I support a brave new attitude entirely. In our awesome "land of plenty" that Oregon affords, there is no benefit to us to destroy our own resources for the quick profits of outsiders. We have the resources and the ability to become leaders and pioneers on the frontier of the fast growing, equitable and highly profitable green economy. Instead of quick bucks from quickly massacring our timber and tourism industry, we should harvest our timber with the most up-to-date environmental standards, as we pursue and acquire a market share of this "build green" industry.
Neville further states, "If you can sell denim jeans for $10 or $250 depending on the label - think of the implications to selling "Oregreen" lumber worldwide." Neville believes that such an approach provides high profit for responsible investors and long-term sustainable income for loggers, and it is positively impacts the tourism industry. "We can snag a lion's share of this burgeoning market, keep our loggers logging and Oregon awesome all in one fell sweep."
Approved by Candy Neville for U.S. Senate
"Ending the war has stayed on high heat on the front burner of my campaign."
U.S. Senate candidate Candy Neville says a new poll by KATU-TV and Survey USA shows that voters are responding to her message that it's time to end the war in Iraq and move boldly forward to meet the many challenges and opporunities that lie ahead for Oregon and America.
The poll of 597 likely Democratic voters shows Neville coming in second with 12 percent behind Portland lawyer Steve Novick with 24 percent and ahead of Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley with 11 percent.
Neville, a Eugene real estate broker, says she was not surprised by the results. "Ending the war has stayed on high heat on the front burner of my capaign, while it has moved around from burner to burner with the others," she said. "Oregonians are ready for this trgedy to end, to bring our troops home and to move forward into a new era of hope and promise in America."
Neville noted that her candidacy has been dismissed by some in the media because she has raised and spent less money than Merkley and Novick. "My approach to campaign financing has been intentional," she said. "I want to show that it's still possible to win the support of Oregon voters, not buy them, and I think the voters recognize and appreciate that."
Neville said she looks forward to participating in the debates and forums across the state in the final weeks of the electin. "This race has been incorrectly characterized as a "two-man" race by many in the media," she said. "But this survey makes it clear that it's really a one woman and two man race and that the outcome is far from certain."
In the coming weeks, Neville plans to campaign in communities across the state, taking her "blue raincoat walking tour" to cities up and down the I-5 corridor from Ashland to Corvallis to Salem to Portland.
