Where Are The Jobs?

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Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, the lady on television said, ``Where's the beef?'' The American people are now saying, ``Where's the jobs?'' One of the things that the President promised was jobs for this country. The Speaker said, It's about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, but the national unemployment is 9.5 percent, and in the Midwest it's in double digits. Are those the jobs?

Yes, the Democrats have given us some jobs. They've given us this cap-and-tax bill which is going to stick a tax collector in everybody's pocket, destroy small businesses, and destroy jobs in the country. They've given us 33 czars at $170,000 a year to reward their cronies who helped them get elected up here by creating new jobs in Washington for them.

Last night the Energy and Commerce Committee voted to put a bureaucrat between a doctor and his patient to tell him how he's going to treat that sick person. That's a new job they want to create. They've got this idea that if they throw enough money to ACORN, they're going to create jobs for ACORN--if they can keep the indictments away from them. These are not jobs.

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