[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18496-18497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. FLAKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FLAKE. Mr. Speaker, people are asking, Where are the jobs? And I 
think it's an appropriate question to ask.
  I myself get a little leery when any administration, any 
administration,

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says that they're going to create jobs. They do so for a while, but 
government jobs don't last very long, or they shouldn't last very long.
  What the administration should do, and this Congress, is create an 
environment in which private sector jobs can be created. And that's 
what we're not doing with this health care bill. This health care bill 
will kill jobs, not create them. It doesn't create an environment where 
jobs can be created.
  Now, the administration and this Congress say we've got to get to 
work. But last week, last Friday we spent an entire day on a welfare-
for-wild-horses bill. There's an old Garth Brooks song that says, wild 
horses keep dragging me away. And, apparently, wild horses keep 
dragging this Congress away from actually creating an environment where 
jobs can be created. And this health care bill goes the wrong 
direction.

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