Political Quotes

“And so we have a challenge to try and recoup and recover, for hardworking Americans, a real economy, because it is frightening when we begin to start losing jobs. Let me show how the trend went. We were adding 270,000 jobs per month under President Obama. We are now adding an average of 191,000 jobs under this present administration. And it can be seen very clearly that the job growth is challenging. We can also see that, when we were down in a slump on median household income, it was surging up because of the values and principles of the Obama administration working with the Democratic Congress. Employment was down when Mr. Obama took office. We can see that it surged up; and then it began to go down, with respect to this administration, and turning red again. The economy, as I said, had been growing very well under President Obama. The GOP tax scam led to a record-setting $1 trillion in stock buybacks, unlike what was represented to us, that that was going to create investment in this country. We are now beginning to put forward some major legislation that deals with investment in our infrastructure, investment in public housing and affordable housing, because we realize what creates jobs. We create jobs when we invest back into the Nation. We do not create jobs when we take tax cuts and give them to the rich while everybody else suffers. The GOP tax law encourages companies to send factories and jobs overseas.…”