Women must fight for fiscal restraint

In the end, it will be America’s moms, workers, and businesses who will suffer the consequences of Washington’s fiscal recklessness, via higher taxes, higher costs of living and higher borrowing costs — all of which will mean more business contraction, slower growth and fewer jobs in the future.

What is a woman to do? Draw from our past. And today is the perfect day to start: until the 19th Amendment was ratified, women had little choice but to live with the consequences of other peoples’ decisions.  The suffragettes changed that by standing up and saying, “Enough!”

Today, thanks to those brave suffragettes, women wield tremendous political power: we cast the majority of votes and increasingly are seeking office and directly shaping public policy. Women can change Washington by learning about the issues that affect us as mothers, workers, and business owners, and by using our knowledge to spur action. We need to demand that Washington get its fiscal house in order by cutting wasteful spending immediately. It’s our time, and this is our fight: to preserve our nation’s economic and fiscal future, as well as our own.

Terry Neese is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Terry Neese Personnel Services in Oklahoma City, OK. She is also former national president of the National Association of Women Business Owners.