Bachmann Takes Obama To Task

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday said Obama failed to deliver on his promise to keep unemployment under eight percent by spending a trillion dollars on the federal stimulus program.

Unemployment rose to 9.4 percent three months after the stimulus, and it hasn’t been lower for 20 months, Bachmann said.

Bachmann pointed to a chart, which showed unemployment rates over the past 10 years. In October 2001, unemployment was at 5.3 percent, 6.6 percent in 2008, and eight months after Obama’s promise to reduce unemployment, the jobless rate rose to 10.1 percent, she said.

While budget deficits were “unacceptably high” under President George W. Bush, “they exploded under President Obama’s direction, growing the national debt by an astounding $3.1 trillion-dollars.” Bachmann noted.  “What did we buy?” she asked.

“Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama’s healthcare bill. ObamaCare mandates and penalties will force many job creators to stop offering health insurance altogether, unless yours is one of the more-than-222 privileged companies or unions that has received a government waiver,” Bachmann said.

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