[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H656]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO ON JOB CREATION

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, I recently held a job fair in my district, 
and despite one of the snowiest travel days of the entire winter, more 
than 2,000 people showed up. The overwhelming turnout makes one thing 
clear: We have a long, long way to go to create real jobs.
  But instead, Congress has embraced record borrowing and record 
spending while unemployment now hovers at about 10 percent. Millions of 
Americans are scraping by wondering why hundreds of billions of dollars 
of their tax money is being wasted, with millions of lost jobs to show 
for it.
  An economic recovery without jobs is not a recovery. We need to 
strengthen small business and create the private sector jobs. If we 
want to boost our economy and put people back to work, we have got to 
get our priorities straight to help the entrepreneurs, the risk-takers, 
the innovators, the dreamers, instead of growing government.

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