Two new voices weighted in on the House bill to cost $61.5 billion from the budget. Goldman-Sachs global Investment firm and the L.A. Times. The Senate is not planning any such drastic cuts.

Goldman Sachs’ prediction is a drag of 1.5 percent to 2 percent of the gross domestic product or GDP in the second and third quarter in 2011.

This would of course affect the job market downward.

Key economic indicators stated that a lesser cut (1 percent) in the second quarter would fade; having a smaller effect on GDP and jobs.

Los Angeles Times writers say U.S. budget cuts will cut in half the nation’s projected grown in 2011.

President Obama’s quote on the impending government shutdown is that approximately eight billion a week of federal spending will not occur, thus weakening our economy further in 2011.

Please call 239-573-5837 or write to Rep. Connie Mack and suggest that he should vote for those bills that help create jobs, not those that will impair our recovery.

Joan Patterson

Lehigh Acres