Cut Spending Now to Create Jobs -- Bring Some Sanity Back to Washington

GOP Leader: “It’s time to get serious about job creation in America because all we’ve gotten out of this ‘stimulus’ bill is a big pile of debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids.”
WASHINGTON, DC – At the weekly GOP leadership press conference this morning, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) commented on Washington Democrats’ out-of-control spending that is hurting America’s economy and slowing the creation of new jobs.  In his remarks, Boehner highlighted a letter he and Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) sent to the President yesterday urging him to use his authority under the law to force Congress to vote on spending cuts:

“The American people are asking around the country, ‘where are the jobs?’ and we see Democrats here in Washington on autopilot.  Yesterday, the Democrat leadership met with the same group of economists who they met with prior to putting the ‘stimulus’ bill together.  This is the group that gave us the result of higher unemployment, no job creation.  And I’m going to remind you one more time:  when the President signed the bill he said that unemployment would not exceed eight percent, now we have unemployment near 10 percent.  He said that the ‘stimulus’ bill would create jobs immediately and yet, over three million Americans have lost their jobs since this bill was signed into law.

“It’s time to get serious about job creation in America because all we’ve gotten out of this ‘stimulus’ bill is a big pile of debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids. The President says, ‘well, we’ll start talking about cutting spending somewhere down the road.’ Eric Cantor and I sent to the President back in February a letter asking him to use his rescission authority to send cuts up here, so we can begin to cut spending now. We have not received a response from the President. So, Eric and I yesterday sent the President another letter, asking him if he would send up to the House rescission. Let’s begin the cutting and bring some sanity back to Washington. The sooner we do it, the better off the American people will be and, more importantly, the better off our kids and grandkids will be.”

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