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U.S.
Congressman John Boehner
On
July
Unemployment: “Private Sector still isn’t ‘doing fine’”
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) released the following
statement regarding the Department of Labor’s unemployment report for
July
2012:
“Two years
after the Obama administration declared, ‘welcome to the recovery,’
this much
is clear: with 42 consecutive months of unemployment above eight
percent, the
private sector still isn’t ‘doing fine’ and President Obama’s economic
plan did
not work. While the president is telling small businesses ‘you didn’t
build
that,’ his policies are making sure they can’t.
“Any new
job creation is welcome news -- but with unemployment still above eight
percent
and rising, and millions of Americans looking for work, it is insane to
raise
taxes on small businesses, as the president and his allies in the
Democratic-controlled Senate propose. Ernst & Young says their
tax hike
will destroy more than 700,000 jobs. And yet, top Democrats say they’re
willing
to let taxes rise on middle class families, tank our economy, and
impose
devastating cuts to our national security if they don’t get their way.
It’s
reckless, it’s wrong, and House Republicans aren’t standing for it.
“A group of
88 American economists warned that we need to stop all of the tax hikes
scheduled for January 1 to prevent more damage to our economy. A
bipartisan
majority in the House voted to do so, and to make sure no middle class
family
or small business sees a tax increase. We also voted in May to replace
the
‘sequester’ defense cuts insisted on by the president.
The House is ready to act at a moment’s
notice this August on these, and the more than 30 jobs bills we’ve
passed, if
Senate Democrats get serious about addressing the threats to our
economy and
our national security.”
NOTE:
‘Welcome to the Recovery’ by
President Obama’s Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ran in the New York
Times on
August 3, 2010. At the time, the unemployment rate was – and still is –
far above
what administration officials predicted it would be if the ‘stimulus’
spending
bill was rushed into law.
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