[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25803]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. LoBIONDO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LoBIONDO. Mr. Speaker, the people in the 2nd Congressional 
District of New Jersey are asking, Where are the jobs? They have 
watched as this Congress has passed bailouts for AIG, for GM and for 
Chrysler. They watched as this Congress passed a huge bailout for Wall 
Street, and then followed up with a stimulus bill that had very little 
thought and that isn't providing the jobs for our citizens. They are 
not too big to fail, so they are not getting help.
  The unemployment rate nationally is about 9.8 percent. In most of my 
district, it is at least a couple of points higher than that. People 
are struggling. People want to understand when are we going to get 
spending under control, and when are we going to understand that we 
should pay attention to the real people, the people who have their 
connection to the real world, not the people who are connected to Wall 
Street, not the people who are getting multimillion dollar bonuses 
after running companies into the ground, but the people who are just 
trying to make America go.

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