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Boehner, Issa Ask Vice President to Stop Using Fictitious “Saved or Created” Jobs Metric
Boehner: “It’s time to bring facts back to this debate, and a good first step would be for Vice President Biden to stop citing these fictitious figures."
Washington
(Nov 24, 2009)
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today joined House Oversight & Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) in sending a letter to Vice President Joe Biden, asking him to stop using the fictitious and unverifiable metric of jobs “saved or created” when discussing the results of Washington Democrats’ $787-billion “stimulus.” Boehner issued the following statement:
“Washington Democrats claimed the $787-billion ‘stimulus’ would keep unemployment below eight percent and create jobs ‘immediately.’ Instead, three million more Americans have lost their jobs, and unemployment is over ten percent. The American people are asking, ‘where are the jobs?’ but rather than work with Republicans on common-sense solutions to get our economy moving again, the White House is pressing ahead with a job-killing agenda, including a ‘cap and trade’ national energy tax and a trillion-dollar government takeover of health care.
“Worse, they are attempting to disguise the fact that the ‘stimulus’ isn’t working by releasing a stream of questionable - or outright inaccurate - statistics, including the number of jobs ‘saved or created’ – a metric the Obama Administration seems to have made up out of thin air. It’s time to bring facts back to this debate, and a good first step would be for Vice President Biden to stop citing these fictitious figures."
The letter from Leader Boehner and Ranking Member Issa, can be read here.
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