[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18494-18495]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                IMPORTANCE OF JOBS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR

  (Mr. CONAWAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Speaker, I hear a recurring theme about jobs: Where 
are they? Who has them? Who doesn't have one?
  In a different life, I participate at a needs assessment in a 
community that I lived in that went through a process of looking at 
what needs were in families, in neighborhoods, and in the community. 
Once we distilled that list down to the top 10 needs for this 
particular community in Midland, Texas, if you looked at them, out of 
all 10 of

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those, nine of those needs would have been positively impacted by a 
job.
  You cannot overstate the importance of jobs in the private sector, 
because when you have jobs in the private sector, individuals are 
better, families are better, communities are better, and this Nation, 
as a whole, is better.
  I can tell you where the jobs aren't. Here is a list of 53 new 
boards, commissions, and bureaucracies that are created under the 
health care plan that is percolating its way through this system. That 
plan will cost 4.7 million private sector jobs, but it will do a good 
job of creating additional bureaucrat jobs that don't create wealth and 
don't improve the overall economy of this country.
  Mr. Speaker, where are those private sector jobs?

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