[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27825]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. When Congress passed the trillion-dollar so-called 
stimulus, the national unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. Some 
politicians warned that without the stimulus, unemployment could pass 8 
percent. This month, unemployment blew past 10 percent; and like you, I 
am wondering where the jobs are.
  In the infinite wisdom of the government, $18 million was spent on a 
Web site to track jobs. The just-released job figures for Montana are 
listed by congressional district. Montana, of course, has only one 
district. Yet the Federal Government spent $372,000 to create one 
single job in Montana's nonexistent 8th Congressional District. Our 
imaginary 16th Congressional District did better, with 32.5 jobs. Only 
a bureaucrat would count half a job in a district that does not exist. 
The government spent $1 trillion to save and create jobs, and the 
opposite has happened. Millions more Americans have lost their jobs, 
and now they want to fix health care like they've fixed the economy.

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