10/8/11 - Sen. John Thune (R-SD) Delivers Weekly GOP Address: Obama's Policies Making It Worse

In the Weekly Republican Address, Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman John Thune explains how President Obama's economic and regulatory policies are making things worse.

Sen. Thune says, "For months now, my Republican colleagues and I have been saying that President Obama has made our economy worse since he took office. This past week, even he admitted that the American people are not better off than they were four years ago. Just since his inauguration in 2009, there are two million more people unemployed, six million more people living in poverty, and 13 million more on food stamps. Our federal debt has increased by 39 percent. That's more than $4 trillion dollars."

On the president's latest stimulus proposal, Sen. Thune points out, "President Obama's policies are damaging our economy, and his proposed solutions are not serious. His latest stimulus bill is so flawed that Senate Democrats have rejected it and are rewriting it, not to grow jobs, but to improve their political standing. It's nothing but a rehash of the same failed ideas he's already tried, combined with a huge tax increase. This is a cynical political ploy that's designed not to create jobs for struggling Americans, but to save the president's own job. This cannot continue."

For a positive step, Sen. Thune points to the free trade agreements which have bipartisan support and can create jobs. "[W]e can finally implement the free trade agreements we've negotiated with Panama, Colombia, and South Korea.... Altogether, these three trade deals will boost U.S. exports by more than $12 billion. And all that new exporting means new U.S. jobs -- 70,000 of them as a result of the South Korea agreement alone. So I was glad to see that President Obama finally submitted the trade deals to Congress, after letting them sit on his desk for almost 1,000 days. It's extremely unfortunate that we had to wait so long for the president to do something so simple, to help promote American exports, and create American jobs.... Republicans in Congress are ready to take up these trade deals, so Americans can get back to work. I hope the Democrats will join us in this effort."

Sen. Thune also points out the problems with President Obama's regulations and the lawsuit against Boeing from the National Labor Relations Board. He says, "Regulations and excessive red tape kill jobs, increase our dependence on foreign oil, and impose costs that American business owners cannot afford."

Sen. Thune concludes, "Washington, under President Obama has grown too powerful, and has hurt job creation. Too often Washington is the problem, not the solution, and we've seen the results since President Obama was sworn in and started moving our country in the wrong direction. The president is right when he says that Americans are not better off today than they were four years ago. And if we're going to get off this wrong track that he's put us on, President Obama has got to change course."

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[burasme]

I fell asleep at 4:40. We get it. Obama's a Socialist, blah, blah, blah, blah... put all gay people in jail, blah, blah, blah. Doesn't sound like change to me.

[Styxhexenhammer666]

Let's take all the poor people on welfare and foodstamps, and make them poor people working for 4 dollars an hour at a fast food chain! MAKES SENSE IF YOu'RE ESTABLISHMENT GOP!

Ron Paul 2012!

[alanrichetha]

This guy is lying about Boeing in SC! Google it and read up on what this lame company did to the thousands of workers in SC... GOP lies, I will never vote for one again.

[bradg674]

No more free trade agreements!!! Is the republican party copying a page out of the Clinton playbook?

[ScipiondeFrance]

Thune has to run ASAP, or we are toast! Romney is a liberal Mormon and Perry is a beach macho new-Bush without the brains. Thune/Jindal is what can beat Obama and decently save and secure the country!

[nutt66]

@1Makyo You don't know what "excess" means? I'm not a Dictionary

"Democrats hate cash", what? They're corporate controlled too ... they're addicted to cash

"environmental restrictions", Oh you're one of those 'End the EPA' people ... you need to read a history book, there was a time when the EPA didn't exist and we polluted EVERYTHING

Blame the housing bubble, outsourcing and the GDP on un-restricted Capitalism that was purchased

GOP jobs plan is called 'Profit at America's Loss'

[mbmart2005]

Another idiot from the republican party. Obama=Bush=Puppet=Republicans , the presidents and congress is not working for the US citizens. Another Free Trade will be another NAFTA,this guy is saying the same reasons all over again that were mention in the 90's for NAFTA. DON'T LISTEN TO HIM. We need to eliminate lobbyist from the Congress, we need single payer healthcare like Vermont. Lower tuition rates,tax on the rich and corporations and the elimination of wars to repair SS and Medicare.

[cut2strut]

How has everyone conveniently forgotten that Obama had the Senate and the House for 2 full years. Jan09 - Jan11. They had 2 years to make it all better, you know, Hope and Change, transparency, bi-partisan (didn't even need to be when they owned the house and senate), etc, etc.. What did they do? The stimulus (the first version of his recent job bill) plan with shovel ready jobs? How's that working for ya? The result is the highest poverty rate in 52 years and 9% unemployment.

[y4upeople]

He is a sell out -

[MsBMackn]

I can't tell if Thune is another sell-out shill or not. Being from my home state, I would like to believe he isn't, but I don't trust a one of them! I believe he co-sponsored an indefinite retention bill with that POS shill McCain, didn't he?

He decided not to run for NWO-Enforcement Agent, er, I mean 'President' in 2012, tho. I guess that's a good sign...