HOUSE Republican Leader John Boehner

The American People Deserve Better than House Democrats’ Trillion-Dollar Spending Plan

Today the House voted on the Congressional Democrats’ so-called “stimulus” bill - estimated by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office to cost more than $1.1 trillion when all is said and done.  Despite President Obama’s request to have a bipartisan bill, Congressional Democrats wrote a partisan bill, shutting alternative viewpoints out of the process.  This hurts the American people.

The result was a plan that is too costly, offers too much slow-moving government spending, and too little in fast-acting tax relief.

The Congressional Democrats’ plan is chock-full of dubious spending that has nothing to do with protecting and creating jobs. It includes:

• $650 million: digital TV coupons
• $600 million: new cars for the federal government
• $6 billion: colleges/universities - many which have billion dollar endowments.
• $50 million: National Endowment of the Arts.
• $44 million: Department of Agriculture headquarters.
• $335 million: education on sexually transmitted diseases.

And don’t forget the $4.19 billion pot of money for “neighborhood stabilization activities” such as ACORN - an organization which has been accused of perpetrating voter registration fraud numerous times in the last several elections and is reportedly under federal investigation.

Expenditures of this sort have no place in a bill that is supposed to be focused on immediate job creation for the American people.  We can’t borrow and spend our way back to prosperity, and to pile billions of dollars in additional debt on our children and grandchildren to finance such spending is simply unacceptable.

At the beginning of this Congress, when Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) handed the gavel to Speaker Pelosi, he pledged to the American people that Republicans would be the party of better solutions and not just be the party of “no.”  In that spirit, Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Rep. David Camp (R-MI) offered a Republican substitute on the floor today that would create twice as many jobs at half the cost.  The Camp-Cantor plan will create 6.2 million new American jobs over the next two years, according to a methodology used by President Obama’s own nominee as Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, Dr. Christina Romer.

The GOP proposal is rooted in the belief that fast-acting tax relief, rather than slow-moving and wasteful government spending, is the most effective way to protect and create jobs and help put our economy back on track.  It provides relief to those who need it most: middle-class families, job seekers, small businesses owners, the self-employed, entrepreneurs, and homebuyers - all with the goal of letting them keep more of what they earn and helping our economy create good-paying, long-lasting jobs.

The American people deserve a better solution.  The House Republicans will continue to work with President Obama to refocus this plan on immediate job creation and tax relief to save and create American jobs and get our economy moving again.

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3 Responses to “The American People Deserve Better than House Democrats’ Trillion-Dollar Spending Plan”

1. Kate Wilson Says:
   January 28th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

   Thank you to the Republicans (and Democrats who remember the people they truly work for) for sticking to your guns on this one. We do not want to saddle our children with a debt caused by a Democratic congress, giddy with power, on a trillion dollar shopping spree.

   Let’s slow this down. Let’s allow time for true transparency, rather than rush this bill through before the taxpayers (i.e. voters, we the people) can find out what is truly included.

   Allow the American people to see a detailed line item list of the dollars proprosed. Let’s allow time for our voices to be heard on these items. Let us decide if this is what we want our money spent on.

2. Diana Galloway Says:
   January 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am

   I am very greatful for the response from the Republican party on the stimulius package. I am not in favor of spending money of new lawns, cars for the government, I more funding of the federal education, I am against funding abortions, and the arts do not need our tax dollars. The list of funding on the stimulius is horrific.
   I agree with party that lower taxes will help all businesses and stop repsonding to the unfounded global warming threat. I am sure all the people in upper U.S. are very cold. I am very afraid for our country, our future, and my children.
   What will they have after taxes to live on? What will be regulated?
   I agree with the above response from Katie, why are in such a hurry to put this through when the President admits it will not help the economy.
   Thank you.

3. judy nichols Says:
   January 29th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

   Please continue to fight against the stimulus package that is riddled with obvious outrageous pork spending. This is so blatantly unfair to all honest hard working taxpayers…..and as more information is released more people are becomming quite alarmed, angry, and just plain sickened by it. ACORN is a prime example of it. They should be totally shut down. They have a history of fraud and corruption.

   Thank you for doing your job. WE will spread the word.

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