Earlier this week President Obama addressed the nation regarding the current state of our union." His speech like the many he has given in the past focused on dividing our nation claiming hollow victories and deflecting attention from his own failed economic record.
While President Obama was speaking a significant milestone was passed. Yesterday marked 1000 days since the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate has passed a budget. For more than three years President Obama and the Senate Democrats have refused to be bound by a budget of spending priorities.
President Obama would like us to believe that our countrys economic woes are the fault of the current Congress. The President knows thats not the truth and our economy will not begin to recover and grow until he takes responsibility for his very expensive failed policies and charts a new course.
Our country is not in its current economic situation because as the President believes we tax folks too little. We cannot begin to grow our economy if we continue to keep job creators on the sidelines because of the burdens of ObamaCare gross federal over spending and laborious regulations.
Congressman Quico Canseco was correct when he said weve seen our nations credit rating downgraded heard warning after warning about the perilous fiscal path our nation has been headed down and watched the European debt crisis unfold as a preview of what could happen to the United States. Yet were right back where weve been before. Instead of considering a proposal to cut spending and put our nation back onto a sustainable fiscal path President Obama is asking us to borrow more money so we can keep on spending."
We represent a broad swath of Texas from San Antonio to the Hill Country and west to El Paso. The counties that make up our districts are very diverse but one similarity is that Congressman Quico Canseco represents part or all of them.
Congressman Canseco has fought hard to improve our countrys economic climate voting for a budget that cuts current spending levels by $6 trillion reducing regulatory burdens that are choking job creation and voting to give the President the immediate authority to create over 20000 jobs by approving the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Rather than chart a course of fiscal responsibility President Obama continues to believe that we can spend our way back to prosperity. Government spending is now equivalent to 40 percent of GDP and the U.S. debt now exceeds the size of our economy.
Of course there is a time for politics. But not when over one million Americans are out of work. The president should work together with members like Congressman Canseco who have created private sector jobs and understand how to get our economy moving forward again.
John V. Garza
State Representative District 117
12002 Bandera Road Suite 102A
Helotes TX 78023
(210) 485-2109
Harvey Hilderbran
State Representative District 53
125 Lehmann Drive
Kerrville TX 78028
(830) 257-2333
