Boehner to Obama: 'Where are the jobs?'

Posted October 1, 2009 2:00 PM
The Swamp
by Mark Silva

The government's monthly report on unemployment will arrive tomorrow morning, Washington time. President Barack Obama will arrive in Denmark to press Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic summer games in the morning, Copenhagen time.

The president could be bringing good news for the United States home with him. But back home, the news may not be so good -- with a 10 percent threshhold for unemployment looming, perhaps, in this week's, if not next month's, report from the Department of Labor.

"While the president is in Copenhagen tomorrow,'' House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said today, "the American people are going to wake up and find out that hundreds of thousands more Americans have lost their jobs.

"The administration's trillion dollar stimulus plan clearly is not working. Americans were promised that this plan would create jobs immediately and keep the unemployment rate below eight percent. But Americans are asking, where are the jobs?''

Asked about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's suggestion today that the recession is likely over, Boehner, at his weekly news conference, said: "Well, I would like -- hope that the recession is over. But we have to realize that unemployment is hovering around 10 percent. We're still losing jobs in America.''

Bernanke also testified that unemployment may well still be 9 percent or greater late next year.

Asked about Obama going to Copenhagen, "only for day'' and "what's wrong with him doing thatt -- because won't all Americans benefit if Chicago gets the Olympics?'' Boehner said: "wo weeks ago, the president said himself that he would not be going to Copenhagen because he had other priorities that were more important. ''

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