Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. McCLINTOCK. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Madam Speaker, this bill ignores a simple truth: Government cannot inject a single dollar into the economy that is not first taken out of the same economy. We see the jobs that are saved or created when the government puts the money back in. What we don't see directly are the jobs lost or prevented when the government first takes that money out of the economy. Those lost jobs are seen in chronic unemployment rates and a stagnant job market, despite unprecedented government spending.

Nor is this necessary to save teaching jobs. A school board faced with the choice between a couple of good teachers and an overpaid bureaucrat is probably going to keep the teachers and fire the bureaucrat. But this bill says it doesn't have to make that choice. Indeed, this actually prohibits school boards from doing anything that would reduce their spending below last year's levels.

Madam Speaker, it is time to invoke the first law of holes: When you are in one, stop digging.

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