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




                  FREEDOM OF AMERICANS TO CREATE JOBS

  (Mr. HOEKSTRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HOEKSTRA. Mr. Speaker, last week, the President visited Michigan. 
With an unemployment rate of 15.2 percent, we were hoping that the 
President would answer the question: Mr. President, where are the jobs? 
When will the jobs come back to Michigan?
  We had hoped that the President would have come to Michigan and would 
have recognized that raising taxes, that excessive spending and that 
more regulation wouldn't work, because that is what we've done in 
Michigan. We now have the highest unemployment rate in the country.
  Mr. President, take a look at Michigan. Recognize that we need to 
reduce taxes, that we need to control spending and that we need to 
reduce regulation to get this economy moving.
  America and Michigan will begin moving forward again when we empower 
its people, not when we empower the bureaucracy and the governments in 
Washington or in Lansing. It's about freedom. Give our constituents the 
freedom to spend their money to create their jobs.

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