[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 897]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              UNEMPLOYMENT

  (Mr. JACKSON of Illinois asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JACKSON of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, the President gave a great 
speech last night. In it he mentioned the word ``jobs'' 31 times; he 
used the word ``innovate'' 11 times. But he didn't mention the word 
``unemployment'' a single time.
  That's because creating jobs is different than ending unemployment. 
In America capitalism and entrepreneurship have created great things 
and great wealth. To name a few, the automobile, the personal computer, 
the airplane. It is my hope that the cure for cancer will come from an 
enterprising entrepreneur.
  But there is one persistent problem that innovation has not solved: 
unemployment. As FDR said, ``Necessitous men are not free men.''
  So I challenge our leading innovators to help find a way to eliminate 
unemployment, since Democrats and Republicans have run out of ideas.
  Mr. Gates, Mr. Buffett, Mr. Zuckerman, Mr. Immelt, Mr. Mulally: Put 
your organizational genius, your job-creating skills to use so that our 
Nation can be free from the threat of unemployment. But don't give us 
ideas that have been tried before, because none of them have eliminated 
unemployment.
  Our task as leaders should be to end the scourge of unemployment once 
and for all so that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness can 
really be available to all Americans.

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