The president traveled to Youngstown today to “to tout his administration’s recovery efforts,” but Congressman Boehner wrote on BigGovernment.com that Democrats’ “policies are only making matters worse in the Mahoning Valley”:
“While it’s encouraging that the factory in Youngstown that the president will visit on Tuesday has recently expanded, the city’s painfully high 15.1 percent unemployment rate is a harsh reminder that the ‘stimulus’ has not created jobs ‘immediately,’ or held our national unemployment rate (9.9 percent) below eight percent as the president promised.
“Worse yet, the policies of the Obama Administration could quickly put jobs at the factory, which manufactures steel pipes for oil and gas drilling, on the chopping block as it continues to push a ‘cap-and-trade’ national energy tax that will raise energy prices, drive thousands of American jobs overseas to countries with less-stringent environmental regulations, and devastate our domestic oil and gas industries.
“Last December the administration unilaterally acted to pave the way for this bureaucratic nightmare, and it’s not looking back. In fact, last week the EPA finalized new rules for manufacturers and power plants scheduled to go into effect in January of next year, regulations that American Iron and Steel Institute President and CEO Thomas Gibson warns ‘will impose significant new costs on manufacturing industries at the worst possible time… [and] arbitrarily picks winners and losers.’”
Read Boehner’s whole op-ed here. House Democrats are even skipping the annual budget process, ignoring voters and the more than 200 economists who are calling on Washington to curb government spending to help create new jobs.
Congressman Boehner is fighting for better solutions that will help small businesses create new jobs here in Ohio by curbing government spending, not raising taxes and creating more government bureaucracy. If you’d like to get involved in his fight, click here and become a Boehner Campaigner today!
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