[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18497-18498]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. LUETKEMEYER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, if we're all real quiet and if we turn 
down the rhetoric and if we listen very attentively, I think we can 
hear the voices of our constituents back home--the people who pay the 
taxes of this country. What are they saying? What question are they 
asking? Where are

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the jobs? Where are the jobs, Mr. President? Well, we're not hearing 
them, are we?
  They've seen the $800 billion stimulus package that was passed 
through this House, that was rammed down our throats and that had no 
effect. In fact, we've gone the other direction. Instead of increasing 
employment, we've gone the other way. We're now at 9.5 percent, headed 
towards double digits. What is the solution? A second stimulus is being 
talked about. Is that really what we need to do? In this last stimulus, 
there was a little bitty piece for small businesses. They're the ones 
that generate the jobs. They're the ones that can turn this economy 
around. They're the ones that can hire the people. Yet we ignore them. 
We turn our backs on them.
  Oh, there are those voices again. I think I can hear them. Yes, 
they're louder this time. They say, Where are the jobs, Mr. President? 
Where are the jobs?

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