Billy Long: “I came to Congress as a small business owner. And as any small business owner will tell you, the government can't create…”

“I came to Congress as a small business owner. And as any small business owner will tell you, the government can't create jobs, only the private sector can. I think it's easy to forget, but the United States Government does not have any money that it does not first take from productive citizens and businesses. When the government spends to create jobs, it has to take money from people who earned it and who would have spent it or invested it otherwise--the broken window effect, if you will. So the reality is that government spending trades productive private sector jobs for usually wasteful public sector jobs. With record unemployment affecting families across the Nation, now is not the time to increase the public sector on the backs of the private sector and increase the burdens on our small businesses. Small businesses are the engine that drives this economy, and it's time for the government to get out of their way. As part of the House GOP Plan for America's Job Creators, we've opposed the President whenever he wants to create new taxes or more regulations. So far this year, the House of Representatives has passed many bills that focus on job creation. These are real jobs bills that create real wealth-producing private sector jobs--not fake bills like the stimulus that didn't do anything but stimulate the national debt-- bills that empower small business owners, fix the Tax Code to help job creators, increase competitiveness for U.S.…”