[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 4, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      STIMULATE PRODUCTIVE SECTOR

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, the mantra that we keep hearing from 
the left, that we just heard from the gentleman from New Jersey, that 
government rather than the productive sector needs to create more jobs.
  Well, according to our new President and Members of this House, the 
$825 billion spending bill is going to create 3 million new jobs. I 
thought that sounded pretty good in an economy that is hurting like 
ours until I pulled out a pocket calculator and did the math: 3 million 
new jobs for $825 billion, that comes to $275,000 per job. That's by 
the President's own numbers, $275,000 that will have to be paid back, 
with interest, by average Americans for every job that he himself says 
will be created.
  Madam Speaker, we do not need to stimulate government. Government 
continues to grow just fine. We need to stimulate the productive 
sector, and the best way to do that is to get off its back.

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