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By: Congressman Jim Jordan (Diary)  |  June 17th, 2011 at 02:14 PM  | 

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It’s hard to believe a year has passed since the White House kicked off its “Recovery Summer” campaign. And it seems like only yesterday that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner bid us all a warm “Welcome to the Recovery.” But today is not a happy anniversary. As this now-infamous stimulus chart confirms, Recovery Summer never warmed up.

The stimulus didn’t work, and the federal government’s alphabet soup is only making things worse.

As one business executive recently told a top Obama aide, Washington “throws sand into the gears of progress.” The private sector, the people who actually create jobs, are stuck playing defense.  No wonder we’re in the slowest jobs recovery since the Great Depression.

We have to get Washington out of the way and get true job creators back on offense.

The solutions are pretty simple: cut away red tape, grow American energy production, cut spending and debt, streamline the tax code, and open global markets to American goods and services. If we can do all that, the next Recovery Summer might actually be for real.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) serves as Chairman of the Republican Study Committee. Follow the RSC on Facebook and Twitter.

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  • johnt

    The so called recovery programs are nothing but short term PR, palaver for the unwary or not to bright. The Dems know full well that placing money where it will do them some political good is not how jobs are generated. Granted the primitives, vine swingers, and those on long term passes from the hospitals believe it. For example, Debbie Wasserman Schultz doubtless takes it as true, but the whole idea was as a slush fund for influence and votes.
    A titanic scam.
    Thanks Congressman Jordan, keep fighting.

  • luvnthebigsites

    According to: http://www.fairtax.org/cgi-bin/scorecard.cgi Unfortunately, you do not support the “Fairtax”. That’s fine and dandy with me but it does beg the question… What is YOUR plan for “streamlining the tax code”? Enquiringly minds wanna know.

    From my perspective, (out here in the nose bleed section) the federal government has been “streamlining” the tax code to the tune of 80,000 pages since the 16th amendment was ratified in 1913. With all due respect congressman Jordan, the current tax code cannot be repaired, “streamlined” or any other adjective you would like to use other than: Replaced.

    Jim, all the grandstanding from the house floor to the threads at Redstate wont change that fact… I’m not asking you (or anybody) to support the “Fairtax”. I’m just asking that you acknowledge our current system cannot be fixed.

    The first step is admitting “we” have a problem.

    Cordially,

    —LuvntheBIGsites

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    I fully understand there is just so much 1/2 of a branch of government can do, especially when another branch is using everything they can think of to have it their way; but the actions by the house gop have been a lot of talk and very little action AND fical restraint.

    should the house not change, i predict in december 2012, the US will look much the same as it does today and all the fall 2010 voters will be wondering just what the new gop congress “changed” for the better.

    sorry, its time for some grandstanding. some scenes of the entire house gop on the steps of the capital challenging the senate and white house to sign some jobs, business incentive and spending cutting bills wouldn’t be a bad thing to do.

    • luvnthebigsites

      Yea, John Duncan is on the list (TN-2)

      But to be honest I supported the Fairtax (or tax replacement) before I knew his name.

      Side note: Dude,

      5 minutes could mean the difference between a coherent post and a grammatical disaster… I’m way down on the list of ppls to point that out but… damn.

      /salute

  • jeffperren

    The Congressman, understandably, is too forgiving of people like Obama, Geithner, Sebelius, and others in the administration.

    The sad fact is that the present Administration is led by actual criminals who, in a country with more self-confidence, would have been in jail a year ago.

    The repeated discarding of the Constitution (ObamaCare), violation of property rights (GM bondholders), letting Black Panthers off the hook, refusal to grant permits in the Gulf, Boeing, Libya, and on and on are testament to this conclusion.

    What we need is not merely a few policy changes such as he suggests, however good those are, but to remove the criminals from power and return to a lawful government constrained by the Constitution.

    • politicalqrm

      the Stimulus Package was never intended to be such. It was intended as a payback to union support for Obama. Sure, they named it something that could be construed a positive move economically to pull the mask over the eyes of the unsuspecting American public, but that was it.

      The objective of the administration is to weaken us economically, militarily, and also as a world power. I am tired of many politicians and commentators saying that his administration does not understand or is acting uninformed when it comes to the economy. If you have ever read any Marx, or Stalin, you would see the parallels between the administration’s actions and their policies to be aligned completely.

      I say this as an former Intelligence analyst and a student of Marx and the Soviet system.

      His actions and those of this administration are to bring this country down to the economic level of the European socialists.

      I really wish Congress would start looking at things realistically instead of through the prism of inside the Beltway.

    • garyaz1

      The problem is the constitution. The

      • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

        but the precedent that is most germane to the unconstitutionality of 0bamacare is one which liberals worship at the altar of: Roe v. Wade. In order to be technically compliant with RvW, insurance companies would not be allowed to maintain medical records or histories of their clients, and would have to pay claims without being informed as to what tests and procedures they were paying for. You see, RvW did more than legalize abortion in the US, it established that every American has a constitutional right to privacy, which includes a right to privacy about what transpires between a patient and his/her doctor.

  • garyaz1

    Good article. But technically speaking the post 2001 recovery was a worse job recovery. Recession ended in November 2001 no job expansion until Sept 2003. No jobs for 23 months after ending.

    Technical end of last recession was July 09, 23 months ago. We have picked close to 2 million jobs. About 700,000 in first 4 months of this year until it all but stopped last month.

    • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

      and airline kiosks with our cars so that banks and airlines will have to hire more tellers and ticketing clerks.

      0bama took over at 7.6% unemployment. It now stands at 9.1%. It doesn’t matter how many jobs we’ve “picked up.” The net gain or loss of jobs is all that really matters. If you “pick up” 2 million jobs while industry is laying off 3 million, the net gain is minus 1 million.

      Unemployment has continued to grow since 0bama took office, and everything he has done has made our economic situation worse. Case in point: NLRB v. Boeing. Doing favors for his union buddies while killing jobs in SC.

      Show me something he is doing that is not killing jobs (besides playing golf and taking Michelle on $200K date nights).

  • azred

    While I agree with you that those are indeed the keys to turning the ship, they require actions, and actions that are opposite to this administration’s agenda and ideology. In addition, they also require this administration to back away from picking the winners and losers and get out of the private sector. Again, this is a complete opposite of their clear agenda.

    I sincerely hope these areas are addressed with serious change, but I have less than no confidence they will actually happen. This administration has proven to be the most clueless and stubborn in history.

  • garyaz1

    Our GOP buddies are just as guilty. The liberals get checks sent from the treasury directly to this company, this cause…the hopeful winner.

    GOP does the same through earmarks and mostly by proxy through the pentagon. They tell treasury to write check to pentagon and order pentagon to send check to defense contractor x, y, and z.