[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18484]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. BONNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, the people in South Alabama and, really, all 
across our country want to know: Where are the jobs? Where are the jobs 
that were promised by the administration and by the Democratic 
leadership of this Congress back in February?
  Without a single Republican vote, a $787 billion stimulus bill was 
forced on the backs of the taxpayers of our country with one simple 
promise: that it would keep unemployment below 8 percent and that it 
would create some 3.5 million jobs over the next 2 years. Where are 
those jobs? Instead of creating new jobs, almost 2.5 million jobs have 
been lost just since the stimulus bill has been passed.
  Nationally, the unemployment rate is 9.5 percent, inching up closer 
and closer to double digits. In five of the six counties that I 
represent in South Alabama, that unemployment rate is already at 
double-digit unemployment.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a serious lack of credibility in our Nation's 
capital. Don't take my word for it. Just listen to the American people. 
They want to know: Where are the jobs?

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