The jobs picture two years into President Obama’s “recovery” is abysmal. The Administration projected that its trillion-dollar stimulus package would keep unemployment below 8 percent. It hasn’t. And official unemployment would be even higher if labor force participation weren’t the lowest in more than a generation – the result of discouraged workers simply giving up.
The President’s economic advisor calls this state of affairs a “bump in the road.” But it’s more like the Grand Canyon. President Obama’s economic policies have failed: employers are paralyzed by record spending and debt, a weakened dollar, exploding energy prices, the explicit threat of new tax increases on top of the highest corporate rates in the world, Obamacare with its burdens on businesses, and a flood of new rules such as carbon regulation from the Environmental Protection Agency – which should be renamed the Jobs Killing Agency.
As the co-owner with my husband of a small business, I understand what it takes to grow a company and meet a payroll. That’s why as your Representative, I have been working to reverse the current state of affairs by ensuring businesses the resources, freedom and flexibility to do what they do best: create jobs.
I have been fighting to cut spending, reduce taxes and reform our 3.8 million-word Internal Revenue Code so companies can invest again. I will continue working to eliminate counterproductive regulations, repeal Obamacare and stop cap-and-trade in its tracks so companies can operate again.
