On the recordDecember 1, 2010
My point was, if you punish the business, you shouldn't be surprised if there are no jobs there. The business is the one that hires people. It's not that complicated. There is a direct connection between employer and employee. What you have just given an example of is: When you shut the company down, then you can't say, ``Well, I'm so surprised that there is unemployment.'' You created the unemployment by the policy. It's crazy. It's really crazy. I understand that the President did support some drilling, but it was off of a foreign coast, and it was with American tax dollars. We are encouraging them to drill, but we can't drill on any of the American sites. That just doesn't make any sense. I think that's what the voters were concerned with in this last election. I think they are concerned with that. They see that there are ways that we should be going as a country, things that we can learn from history, and if there is one thing we should be dealing with immediately, right now, it's making those Bush tax cuts permanent because the economics of that thing works both ways. If you cut the taxes, you saw what happened to the gross domestic product. It goes up. Unemployment goes down. If we create jobs, we create more revenue for the government. If you do the opposite, then the result is going to be the opposite. You're going to have more unemployment.
