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New Year's Resolution for Congress: Focus on Jobs

New Year’s Resolution for Congress:  Focus on Jobs

Today, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics released another grim economic report, one that closed out on 2009 on a very disappointing, but unfortunately fitting, note.  The latest figures showed that over 85,000 jobs were cut in December, with no improvement in the 10 percent unemployment rate.  Once again, despite unprecedented spending of taxpayer dollars and major government intervention into the private marketplace, the American people are seeing little progress in righting the economic ship.

As 2010 begins and New Year’s resolutions are being made, Congress should strengthen its resolve to make job creation our number one priority.  Simply put, a recovery without jobs is not a recovery.  Let’s take action to enact smart policies that will bring the jobs the stimulus and bailouts did not.  Let’s help our engine of economic growth – small businesses – expand.  Let’s get our fiscal house in order to provide certainty and strengthen the dollar.   And, finally, let’s enact real, bipartisan solutions that will give the American people what they want: more jobs, without breaking the bank.

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