[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18488]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, around the country, more and more Americans 
are out of work, struggling to pay their bills. Yesterday, the Web site 
recovery.gov revealed that your government spent $1.2 million to 
purchase pork at twice what struggling families would pay at a local 
grocery store. It would be funny if it weren't so painful.
  The $787 billion stimulus was sold to the American people as a bill 
that would put people back to work. But now we see it for what it 
really is, a massive expansion of social welfare which is doing nothing 
to create jobs.
  Where are the jobs? Almost 6 months have passed since the stimulus 
was signed into law, and unemployment continues to tick upward. It is 
over 13 percent in my congressional district. The so-called 
``stimulus'' was a missed opportunity to provide true tax relief to the 
American people and for shovel-ready infrastructure projects that would 
have provided jobs. As more information on this stimulus package is 
revealed, I'm sure more terrifying news will be before us.

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