[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9923]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     JOB CREATORS IN TEXAS ``JUST SAY NO'' TO MORE GOVERNMENT HELP

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Brady) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BRADY of Texas. Good morning, America. President Reagan once said 
the nine most terrifying words in the English language were: I'm from 
the government and I'm here to help.
  Recently, I met with job creators, small businesses and mid-size 
businesses in my east Texas district to talk about jobs, and I wish the 
President would have been with me to listen to the men and women who 
create jobs in my district, and they're like the men and women who 
create jobs across America. In meeting after meeting, job creators in 
my district made their voices heard loud and clear. They don't want 
another Washington jobs bill. They don't want government that taxes 
more, spends more, regulates more, and borrows more. They aren't 
looking to Washington for more incentives or tools to start hiring.
  Want more jobs, they ask? Then get your finances in order and get 
Washington out of the way of our economic recovery. They want this 
Congress to cut now and cut deep, and when this Congress thinks it's 
cut enough wasteful and nonessential government spending, they want 
this Congress to cut more. In other words, they want their lawmakers to 
do what it takes to get our Nation back on sound footing.
  In Willis, city council member Anna Ross asked, We're making the 
tough choices in our city budget. When will the Federal Government do 
the same?
  At the Conroe Rotary Club, Angela Allen told me she wants Washington 
to pay down the debt, go after fraud in Medicare, and above all, get 
out of the way of our job creators.
  In Orange, Texas, small businesspeople flat out rejected more 
borrowed stimulus. They insist Congress not raise the debt ceiling 
unless we begin cutting up Washington's credit cards.
  And local hospital administrator Jarren Garrett said it as bluntly as 
can be: Control spending.
  In Huntsville, Texas, I heard how concerned people over our huge job-
killing Tax Code. Sandra Sherman not only wants us to stop the 
spending. She wants government out of so many areas of our lives from 
housing, and banking, and medicine, and energy, insurance, and other 
sectors.
  E.V. Blissard sent a loud message that we should not give in to the 
big spenders. E.V. is right. We can't give up the fight for a fair tax 
or to save Medicare and Social Security for our young people.
  I heard that same message in Livingston, Texas, and New Caney, Texas, 
where they said forcing fewer and fewer taxpayers to carry more and 
more of the Federal Government burden is a sure way to kill the golden 
goose of prosperity.
  Fear and uncertainty of what's coming next from Washington, including 
higher taxes, higher health care costs, higher energy costs is keeping 
these employers from putting out that ``Help Wanted'' sign we're all 
looking for.
  In every town hall, roundtable, and civic club in my district the 
four letter word on the lips of everyone's tongue was ``debt.'' Mr. 
President, in Texas the businesses that can help America pull out of 
its economic slump say it's time to cut up America's credit cards and 
end the spending spree in Washington. They will tell you if Washington 
doesn't back away from the cliff of more debt, more spending, more 
regulation, and more taxes, they fear we might cease to recognize our 
great Nation in the future.
  Today, 2 years after that economic recovery supposedly started years 
after we spent $820 billion against our Republican objections, that 
stimulus, we have fewer Americans working today than when the stimulus 
began, one-half million fewer people working than when all that 
stimulus was supposed to jump-start the economy. Manufacturing is down, 
factory orders are down, consumer confidence is down. We were promised 
our unemployment rate right now would be 6\1/2\ percent. Well, it is 
almost 9 percent. We have the largest number of people out of work, 
unemployed. It's almost at historic levels. We have fewer people 
working today than almost a quarter of a century ago, fewer people in 
the workforce in almost a generation.
  The stimulus failed. It is time for a new approach. It's time to 
listen to the job creators. What they really did like, by the way, was 
the Republican plan for America's job creators to get the Tax Code out 
of the way of our small business people, to get higher energy and 
health care costs out of the way of our job creators. They want to 
lower the barriers so America competes and finds new customers around 
the world, get those barriers out of the way, and they want a better 
business climate, more patent reform, more lawsuit reform, get those 
extra costs out of the way of our small businesses, and they want us to 
get our financial house in order.

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  Mr. President, get out of the White House, listen to our job 
creators. They don't want more government jobs bills. They want you and 
this Congress out of the way of what they know they want to do. And 
with that, we will bring jobs, bring the unemployment rate down, and 
bring us back to the strongest economy in the world, not just for a few 
years but for the entire century.

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