[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18479]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, the lady on television said, ``Where's the 
beef?'' The American people are now saying, ``Where's the jobs?'' One 
of the things that the President promised was jobs for this country. 
The Speaker said, It's about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, but the national 
unemployment is 9.5 percent, and in the Midwest it's in double digits. 
Are those the jobs?
  Yes, the Democrats have given us some jobs. They've given us this 
cap-and-tax bill which is going to stick a tax collector in everybody's 
pocket, destroy small businesses, and destroy jobs in the country. 
They've given us 33 czars at $170,000 a year to reward their cronies 
who helped them get elected up here by creating new jobs in Washington 
for them.
  Last night the Energy and Commerce Committee voted to put a 
bureaucrat between a doctor and his patient to tell him how he's going 
to treat that sick person. That's a new job they want to create. 
They've got this idea that if they throw enough money to ACORN, they're 
going to create jobs for ACORN--if they can keep the indictments away 
from them. These are not jobs.

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