Blog: Welcome to Reality

Statement

While the Obama Administration continued their PR campaign, which included an editorial titled "Welcome to Recovery", another 131,000 Americans lost jobs during the month of July. Unfortunately for the American people, the liberal Democratic response to these job loss numbers is no different since they assumed leadership of Congress: more spending. Speaker Pelosi announced the U.S. House of Representatives will reconvene on Tuesday to push a $26 billion stimulus extension and state bailout bill. Meanwhile, the largest tax increase in U.S. history is still scheduled to occur at the end of this year.

When Congress passed the big-government stimulus last February, the Administration promised the unemployment rate would remain below 8 percent. By the Administration's own standards, the stimulus has failed. And the American people have continuously rejected Washington's attempts to pick winners and losers. Unfortunately, the liberal leadership in Washington is not listening to the American people.

A small business owner in Northeast Georgia told me last week that looming tax increases and more government regulations continue to hinder her ability to create jobs. Washington's tax, spend and borrow polices are merely prolonging our nation's economic recession. I have listened to families, entrepreneurs and individuals and introduced the JOBS Act, H.R. 4100. The JOBS Act would immediately incentivize businesses to create jobs through tax incentivizes. Families cannot continue to wait another month while liberals continue to push recovery rhetoric that does not match reality. Washington must act now to relieve families and entrepreneurs from the tax and regulatory burdens hindering a true, economic recovery.

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