Big Spending vs. Real Solutions
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Yesterday, President Obama held a press conference in which he recited the same tired litany of rationalizations that he always gives. After President Obama’s snoozer, House GOP Leader John Boehner used the opportunity to contrast President Obama’s fiscally irresponsible plan with the House GOP’s plan to re-invigorate the economy:
Our nation has lost nearly three million jobs this year, yet the President did not lay out a clear path for how his Administration will keep its promise to create jobs for middle-class families and small businesses. House Republicans have offered better solutions to create jobs, control spending, and curb the debt. Unfortunately, Democrats have taken a go-it-alone approach, choosing old-style Washington politics over the new way Americans expected after the last election.
Today the President again claimed that the Democrats’ government takeover of health care would not force Americans off of their current plans, yet independent analysts have reported that at least 23 million Americans would lose their coverage under the bill drafted by Senate Democrats. House Republicans have introduced a better alternative to make health care more affordable and accessible, ensure that Americans can keep their health plan, and keep doctors and patients, not government bureaucrats, in charge of critical and personal medical decisions. (more…)