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




                           OBAMA MISERY INDEX

  (Mr. CAMP asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CAMP. Mr. Speaker, the chart next to me shows the Obama Misery 
Index, OMI, which reveals a stunning rise in debt and in unemployment. 
``Oh, my,'' I think, is the right title for the index of current and 
future burdens that Americans face.
  Despite campaign pledges of fiscal responsibility and of job 
creation, since Inauguration Day, we've seen an $800 billion stimulus 
bill, massive energy taxes and a legislative agenda that has resulted 
in a rapidly growing debt alongside rising unemployment. Taken 
together, these figures define the effect of the President's policies 
to date, not only revealing their failure to deliver jobs for today's 
workers but an even larger government tab for our children and 
grandchildren to pay. Already the unemployment and debt on President 
Obama's watch is a stunning 40.6 percent--the current Obama Misery 
Index actually felt by the American people.
  After the Vice President's recent claim that the government needs to 
spend more money to keep from going bankrupt and after the CBO, 
Congressional Budget Office, Director suggests that the $1 trillion 
Democrat health care bill will add to the country's budget problems, 
this measure may only worsen in months ahead.
  Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs?

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