The Heritage Foundation says the president’s plan for tax hikes “will slow job creation and wage growth.” That’s why the House will vote next month to stop all of the tax hikes.
Tag: Economy
Nowhere to be found in President Obama’s 54-minute speech this afternoon was a new idea, proposal, or plan to fix our economy.
After 40 months with unemployment above 8 percent, nobody seems to think President Obama is “doing fine” at helping create new jobs and growing the economy.
Following the “never-ending pivot to jobs” that failed to bring down the staggering unemployment rate, President Obama is turning to a new strategy in his economic speech tomorrow – the pivot to nothing.
President Obama was widely criticized on Friday for claiming that “the private sector is doing fine,” “suggesting the president’s comments are more proof that he's ‘out of touch’ with the country's economic struggles,” ABC News reported. Indeed, three years of President Obama’s failed economic policies are making it harder for small businesses to hire, and have left American families grappling with fewer jobs and higher prices on everything from gas to groceries – though apparently the president hasn’t noticed.
Speaker John Boehner delivered the following remarks today at a press conference responding to President Obama’s claim that the “private sector is doing fine.”
If stopping student loan rates from doubling on July 1 is important to the White House, why won’t Democrats respond to Republican proposals to extend current rates, and help students and college graduates who are struggling to find jobs in this economy?
At a press conference with Republican leaders today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made the following remarks regarding the May unemployment report and the Republican Plan for America’s Job Creators.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement today regarding the Department of Labor’s unemployment report for May 2012.
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