[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18487]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AKIN. Americans love records. How fast can you go? How high can 
you go? How deep can you go? We love to set records. Why, the Democrats 
just set a fantastic record of the biggest tax increase in the history 
of our country. And was it clever? It was really clever. All you have 
to do is flip a light switch to pay a tax. And spending. Oh, we've done 
a great job of spending it. As a result of taxing and spending, more 
records. Why, in the last 6 months, we have lost more jobs than any 6-
month period since World War II. There's a record for you.
  Here's another record. We have, in the last 6 months, used up more 
jobs and lost jobs than we created over the Bush years over the 
previous 9 years. That's the only time that's happened since the Great 
Depression.
  And here's another record, too: That is, the jobs that we've lost 
have been longer than any time since we've been measuring unemployment 
in 1948.
  I wish we didn't set quite so many records. We don't need the 
Democrats' help for this kind of record.
  Where are the jobs?

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