Wow. And then, of course, the economic uncertainty as you're saying. When you see the government taking over the auto industry and the insurance industry and then going to take over the health care industry, that makes people that understand economics very uncertain. They're not going to put a lot of money into trying to create jobs. They'll make jobs. There's a president of a company in St. Louis called Emerson Electric. Emerson Electric says, we'll make jobs; we're just not going to make them in the United States because we can't afford to. We have created a set of policies that are so toxic, we have done so well with this list of job killers and doing every one of these things very well that he said, Yeah, we'll create jobs, but they're going to be in foreign countries because we can't afford to do business in this country because we've made the environment so toxic. And yet we talk about saying, oh, my goodness, we've got unemployment, we've done all this wonderful stuff, but now we've still got to do more to help the unemployment, if what we're doing was so wonderful. Take a look at these policies. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here we have the President saying, ``Now give me one good reason why you're not hiring.'' You've got the government taking over health care, the cap-and-trade, the global warming thing, and all these other taxes that are coming along. As it turns out, health care has got a lot more hidden taxes than we realized in it.
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The speaker addresses economic uncertainty and job creation in light of government policies.
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