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The American Jobs Act, now being ignored in a Congress near you, has some modest small steps that that carry a radical proposition – that the purpose of government is to serve the common wealth of the nation, not the private wealth of the greedy.  One of the provisions takes  the $30billion/year the government now spends subsidizing  executive jets and uses that money to hire people to fix schools and bridges.  The fixed schools and bridges and those jobs are all urgently needed, but the principle is something we need even more.  The Republican House will not even bring the bill up for discussion and a number of Democratic Senators are making all sorts of nonsensical objections. Is the government for the people or is it for the lobbyists? We have many complex problems to address, but first we need to establish the principle that  any Congressional representatives who cannot bring themselves to trade corporate jet subsidies for jobs fixing schools need to get the hell out of our Capitol Building and find other work for themselves.