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Wicker The President's solution to creating jobs is just more spending

Press Release

Date: Jan. 25, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers Government Budget and Spending

Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today discussed President Obama's State of the Union Address scheduled to be delivered this evening.

"The President has shown he can generate government jobs," Wicker said. "But jobs created by small businesses and entrepreneurs in the private sector are the ones that are needed. The President's solution to produce jobs is just to expend more tax dollars, which is a nonstarter in the Senate and for the American public. We are already spending more than we have, so the President's call for a five-year spending freeze simply does not go far enough. We need to stop the spending binge and give job creators certainty to enable them to hire."

Wicker has been calling on his colleagues in the Senate to cut their office budgets by at least five percent in 2011. While only a beginning, Wicker said the commitment would signal a change for the better in Washington.

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