FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2010
CONTACT: JAMES SLEPIAN
James@Renacciforcongress.com
THE STIMULUS, ONE YEAR LATER: FEWER JOBS AND MORE DEBT
Boccieri’s Failed Economic Plan Leaves Ohioans Asking: Where are the Jobs?
Canton— Exactly one year ago today, the disastrous economic “stimulus” plan, which Democrats pushed through Congress with the full support of John Boccieri, was signed into law. In an effort to justify the plan’s hefty $862 billion price tag, Boccieri and his Democratic allies assured the American public that the legislation was necessary to boost the economy and vowed that it would keep unemployment below 8%. However, one year later, as Americans find themselves suffering through double-digit unemployment and buried under a mountain of new debt, the failures of the Democrats’ incompetent handling of the economy could not be more staggering.
While the trail of economic destruction has swept the entire country, Ohio has been hit particularly hard. Since last February, 107,800 Ohioans have lost their jobs and the State’s growing unemployment rate now stands at 10.9%. In the 16th district’s most populous county, unemployment has doubled in the past year, and is now approaching 13%. Despite the unmitigated failures of the Democrats’ economic agenda, John Boccieri continues to whistle past the graveyard and demonstrates unconscionable indifference to the struggles faced by his own constituents. Seemingly blind to the mounting job losses, John Boccieri has labeled the stimulus plan as an “investment in our people” and a “critical step towards restoring economic hope.”
“John Boccieri is living in a sad state of denial. He has made it clear that his loyalties lie with the failed policies of the Obama-Pelosi agenda and is putting his own political ambitions over the well being of his constituents. Doubling the national debt while doubling the unemployment rate does not constitute an economic plan for America, and John Boccieri’s refusal to recognize that embodies the failed brand of leadership that he has brought to Washington,” Boccieri’s Republican opponent, Jim Renacci said.
“When we have a Congressman representing this district who considers this type of fiscal incompetence as an ‘investment’ in our future, that Congressman should not have a future in the U.S. House of Representatives. I am running for Congress because I not only promise to serve as a voice for fiscal responsibility, but I actually have a record which proves that I know what it means,” Renacci added.
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