JOHNSON ON JOBS REPORT: WASHINGTON HAS STIMULATED US TO DEATH
September 2, 2011, Santa Fe, NM -- Responding to today's report that no net jobs were created in August, former New Mexico governor and presidential candidate Gary Johnson released the following statement:
"With today's jobs report, the worst in a year, one has to wonder what it will take to make the President and Congress admit that they are doing all the wrong things. Government does not create jobs, it kills jobs. Yet, the White House says the answer is to pass a highway bill so they can 'stimulate' construction jobs. Washington has stimulated us to death, and it has to stop. Provide certainty for employers, stop the insane spending, and reform the tax code. Do those things, and the private sector will do the job creation. We have let the myth of government jobs programs go too far, and America is suffering as a result. We don't need more prime time speeches -- we need government to just get out of the way."
