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RENACCI RESPONDS TO OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

 
Wadsworth— In response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address, Jim Renacci, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio’s 16th district, issued the following statement.
 
“Tonight, as millions of Americans continue to struggle—desperate for jobs and mired in debt, they listened for the President to set a new course for America and to outline a path to economic recovery for our nation.  They listened for a viable plan to bring the employment rate up, instead of down, and to bring taxes down, instead of up.  They listened for a commitment to decrease our national debt and halt deficit spending.  They listened for the President who campaigned on ‘hope’, to actually give reason for it, and who promised ‘change’, to deliver change for the better, rather than change for the worse.  Unfortunately, because the President hasn’t been listening to the American people, the American people didn’t hear what they had hoped for from the President.”
 
“On a night when the nation was clamoring for change, all they heard was more of the same.  While Americans are demanding more jobs and lower taxes, the President called for massive tax hikes and job-killing energy policies, by asking Congress to pass the cap and trade legislation.  At a time when we need far less spending in Washington, the President demanded more of it, urging the passage of a trillion dollar health care bill.  In a speech that was light on substance and short on vision, the only thing that remains clear is the President’s commitment to the same failed policies of the past year—policies wholeheartedly supported by John Boccieri and Nancy Pelosi.  Policies that Americans clearly do not support and that our country clearly cannot afford.”
 
“The path forward to reviving America’s economy and restoring our vitality does not lie with more of the same failed initiatives that result in higher taxes and reckless spending.  The Obama-Pelosi agenda pursued during the past twelve months, with the full support of John Boccieri, has left a trail of destruction throughout our nation and throughout this district that is felt every day.  Unemployment in our most populous county has doubled, and statewide, the jobless rate in Ohio now stands nearly a full point higher than the national average.  Tonight, the President said that he is more ‘hopeful’ now about America’s future than at any time in history, but that hope and confidence is not shared by the millions of Americans who cannot find work and whose children and grandchildren are being buried in debt.  I am running for Congress to reverse the treacherous course that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and John Boccieri have set for this country, and in Washington, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.”
 

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