Boehner Speaks Out!
October 27, 2009
Oct 21, 2009
Washington – Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) issued the following statement today regarding continued job losses in Ohio during the month of September.
“Earlier this year, the administration’s top economists stated that passage of the trillion-dollar ‘stimulus’ would ensure the nation’s unemployment rate would not exceed 8 percent. [It is now nearly 10 percent.] In July, Ohio’s unemployment rate was 11.2 percent. Since then, the unemployment rate has decreased, but only because thousands of Ohioans have given up their job search out of frustration with the failure of Democrats in Columbus and Washington to fix our economy and get people back to work.”
“As Ohio small businesses and families continue to struggle, everyone is asking, ‘where are the jobs?’ Today Speaker Nancy Pelosi is convening a panel of economists – the same economists who gave them advice on their fundamentally flawed ’stimulus’ bill. Hopefully Democratic leaders will realize that with more than three million job losses since the ’stimulus’ was enacted, now is not the time to push forward with their plans for a massive government takeover of health care that will harm small businesses, impose more than $820 billion in new tax hikes and make job losses even worse. Republicans have offered better solutions on the ’stimulus’ and health care that will help small businesses create jobs and restore Ohioans’ hope for a brighter tomorrow.”
NOTE: According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released this morning, Ohio has lost 258,100 jobs over the past year, ranking the state 6th in the nation for largest decline during that period. Ohio reported a 10.1 percent unemployment rate for the month of September, down from 10.8 percent in August. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services attributes this decrease to a growing number of Ohioans giving up on their job search. Two weeks ago, House Republican leaders sent letters to President Obama and Speaker Pelosi urging them to consider common-sense GOP solutions to help put Americans back to work. These proposals, some of which were presented to the president as early as his first week in office, were developed by House Republicans’ Economic Recovery and Health Care solutions groups.
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