This ought to be working. After 15 years, it isn't.
America deserves a strong, growing economy that fully employs our people and is the envy of the world.
Clearly the longer they are without a job, the bigger the challenge it is getting them back to work.
We cannot do that until we pry Washington's hands off the throats of America's job creators.
Washington needs to get out of the way. It needs to end its job-killing rhetoric, the regulations, and intervention.
I share Chairman Casey's concerns about the long-term unemployed.
It is no secret that I am not a big fan of the stimulus. A lot of money. A lot of debt. Few jobs.
We were told if we passed it that unemployment would be about 6.3 percent today. Way off.
We certainly got the debt, and now that too is a drag on our economy, on business confidence and on family confidence.
It has declined yet again in July to about 63.9 percent. This is the lowest since the early 1980s.
The United States is on the precipice of a financial crisis because Washington really spends too much relative to the size of our economy.