[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13387]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, I love these debates about Social Security 
and this conversation about Social Security. But if you don't have a 
job, who's going to pay the Social Security? So it's really about jobs.
  I had an interview today with some radio folks back in my district, 
and they asked a question, Have we created any jobs but government 
jobs? And how come we are creating government jobs that get paid more 
than the private-sector jobs? When did we get confused about that? They 
wanted me to answer the question, Where are the jobs for the folks in 
Texas? Where are the jobs for the folks in the other States? Why are 
all the jobs just in Washington, DC, growing the government?
  This administration has destroyed thousands of private-sector jobs by 
taking over and Federalizing the student loan program and making loans 
harder to get and taking longer to be processed. Now President Obama 
and this administration have unilaterally killed tens of thousands of 
jobs in the gulf, in direct violation of a Federal court order.
  Now, is this a way we create jobs for America? The question they want 
to know, Where are the jobs, so, with a job, we can pay our share of 
Social Security?

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