[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18501]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 $746,000 OF TAXPAYER MONEY FOR ONE JOB

  (Mr. SCHOCK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SCHOCK. Mr. Speaker, in the last 6 months, a lot has changed. We 
have a new President of the United States, we have a new Congress, the 
111th Congress, and we have 3.1 million fewer jobs, and an increase of 
28 percent in unemployment just in the last 6 months.
  What was the reaction? What was the response from the new 
administration and of this Congress? Well, we need to pass a stimulus 
bill, and we need to pass it now. No time for debate. No time for 
amendments. No time for input from the minority. We need to pass it 
now.
  This bill had less than 24 hours of debate on this floor before it 
was passed out of the floor, and yet the President took 4 days to sign 
it. What did it do? It spent $787 billion, the largest spending bill in 
our country's history.
  And what have we gotten? The administration says we created 150,000 
new jobs after spending $112 billion. Well, get out your calculators. 
That is $746,000 of taxpayer money for one job.
  Where are the jobs?

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