[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WHERE THE JOBS ARE

  (Mr. SIMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SIMPSON. I repeatedly heard Members come to the floor to ask the 
question, Where are the jobs? The Obama administration and 
congressional Democrats told us that with the passage of their $787 
Billion stimulus package that unemployment would not rise above 8 
percent. Well, it now stands at 9\1/2\ percent.
  It's a legitimate question: Where are the jobs?
  Let me tell you where the jobs are. As reported on the news last 
night on the spending of the stimulus package, we are spending your tax 
dollars on building a living snow fence for $80,000; $31.5 million on a 
bike trail in California; $1.5 million on a deer underpass; $3.4 
million on a turtle tunnel in Florida. That's right, a turtle tunnel in 
Florida. I hope some of the money from this stimulus is going to train 
the turtles as to the advantages of using a turtle tunnel.
  These are the Democratic stimulus dollars at work, your tax dollars 
at work.

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