[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18480-18481]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      WHERE ARE THE PROMISED JOBS?

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the unemployment rate is in double 
digits around this country. Some States have the highest unemployment 
rate in history. The economy is bleeding jobs because the trillion-
dollar stimulus bill was a jobs disaster bill.
  Jobs, jobs, jobs, that's all we heard from the taxacrats as they 
jammed that bill through Congress. They didn't give anybody a chance to 
read it. They sure didn't want Members of Congress to read it. The 
American people didn't get to read it, and they have to suffer the 
consequences.
  But the stimulus bill did help one city, however. Washington, D.C., 
has the lowest unemployment rate in the country. Now, how can that be? 
Well, the stimulus bill stimulated government programs funded at 
taxpayer expense. These aren't real jobs. Government doesn't create 
anything. All they do is suck money out of a private economy that could 
create real jobs.
  The bureaucrats created more jobs for red tape regulating bureaucrats 
and forced citizens to subsidize it. All the trillion-dollar stimulus 
bill did was spend taxpayer money to create more government 
regulations, more government control, and more government bureaucrats. 
That's too bad.
  And that's just the way it is.

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