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Where The Job Are

Date: July 28, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Economy and Fiscal


WHERE THE JOBS ARE -- (House of Representatives - July 28, 2009)

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Mr. SIMPSON. I repeatedly heard Members come to the floor to ask the question, Where are the jobs? The Obama administration and congressional Democrats told us that with the passage of their $787 Billion stimulus package that unemployment would not rise above 8 percent. Well, it now stands at 9 1/2 percent.

It's a legitimate question: Where are the jobs?

Let me tell you where the jobs are. As reported on the news last night on the spending of the stimulus package, we are spending your tax dollars on building a living snow fence for $80,000; $31.5 million on a bike trail in California; $1.5 million on a deer underpass; $3.4 million on a turtle tunnel in Florida. That's right, a turtle tunnel in Florida. I hope some of the money from this stimulus is going to train the turtles as to the advantages of using a turtle tunnel.

These are the Democratic stimulus dollars at work, your tax dollars at work.

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